God’s Word Translation
Exodus 23:32
32Never make a treaty with them and their gods.
Exodus 23:32 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
- New International Version (NIV)Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You shall make no covenant with them and their gods.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
Context of Exodus 23:32
30Little by little I will force them out of your way until you have increased enough in number to take possession of the land. 31“I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea and from the Sinai Desert to the Euphrates River. I will put the people living in the land under your control, and you will force them out of your way. Never make a treaty with them and their gods. 33Never let them live in your land, or they will make you sin against me and trap you into serving their gods.”
Read all of Exodus 23Exodus 23:32 word by word
לֹֽא־תִכְרֹ֥ת לָהֶ֛ם וְלֵאלֹֽהֵיהֶ֖ם בְּרִֽית׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Exodus 23:32
- Exodus 34:12Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you’re going. This will prove to be a trap to you.
- Deuteronomy 7:2When the Lord your God gives them to you and you defeat them, destroy every one of them because they have been claimed by the Lord. Don’t make any treaties with them or show them any mercy.
- Joshua 9:14The men believed the evidence they were shown, but they did not ask the Lord about it.
- 2 Samuel 21:1In the time of David, there was a famine for three successive years, and David asked the Lord’s advice about it. The Lord answered, “It’s because of Saul and his family. They are guilty of murder because they killed the people of Gibeon.”
- Psalms 106:35Instead, they intermarried with other nations. They learned to do what other nations did,
- 2 Corinthians 6:15Can Christ agree with the devil? Can a believer share life with an unbeliever?
- Numbers 25:1While Israel was staying at Shittim, the men began to have sex with Moabite women
- Deuteronomy 7:16You must destroy all the people the Lord your God hands over to you. Have no pity on them, and never worship their gods, because they will be a trap for you.
Commentaries on Exodus 23:32
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 32Thou shalt make no covenant with them - They were incurable idolaters, and the cup of their iniquity was full. And had the Israelites contracted any alliance with them, either sacred or civil, they would have enticed them into their idolatries, to which the Jews were at all times most unhappily prone; and as God intended that they should be the preservers of the true religion till the coming of the Messiah, hence he strictly forbade them to tolerate…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 20-33Verses 20-33 It is here promised that they should be guided and kept in their way through the wilderness to the land of promise, Behold, I send an angel before thee, mine angel. The precept joined with this promise is, that they be obedient to this angel whom God would send before them. Christ is the Angel of Jehovah; this is plainly taught by St. Paul, 1Co 10:9. They should have a comfortable settlement in the land of Canaan. How reasonable are the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 20-33If the people obeyed the covenant rules, God promised to protect them from enemies and illness and give them land to own (23:22–23, 25–26, 27–31). These promises depended on complete loyalty to God (Yahweh). Worshiping the gods of the peoples expelled from the land would be an act of rebellion (23:21; 24, 32–33).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-331. put not thine hand--join not hands.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Exodus 23
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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