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Text -- Exodus 23:20-33 (NET)
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The Angel of the Presence
23:20 “I am going to send an angel before you to protect you as you journey and to bring you into the place that I have prepared .
23:21 Take heed because of him, and obey his voice ; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgressions , for my name is in him.
23:22 But if you diligently obey him and do all that I command , then I will be an enemy to your enemies , and I will be an adversary to your adversaries .
23:23 For my angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites , the Hittites , the Perizzites , the Canaanites , the Hivites , and the Jebusites , and I will destroy them completely .
23:24 “You must not bow down to their gods ; you must not serve them or do according to their practices . Instead you must completely overthrow them and smash their standing stones to pieces.
23:25 You must serve the Lord your God , and he will bless your bread and your water , and I will remove sickness from your midst .
23:26 No woman will miscarry her young or be barren in your land . I will fulfill the number of your days .
23:27 “I will send my terror before you, and I will destroy all the people whom you encounter ; I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
23:28 I will send hornets before you that will drive out the Hivite , the Canaanite , and the Hittite before you.
23:29 I will not drive them out before you in one year , lest the land become desolate and the wild animals multiply against you.
23:30 Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land .
23:31 I will set your boundaries from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines , and from the desert to the River , for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand , and you will drive them out before you.
23:32 “You must make no covenant with them or with their gods .
23:33 They must not live in your land , lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods , it will surely be a snare to you.”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Israel |
COVENANT, BOOK OF THE |
LAW IN THE OLD TESTAMENT |
LEVITICUS, 1 |
PASSOVER |
Revelation |
EXODUS, THE BOOK OF, 2 |
Book |
God |
Hornet |
Angel |
Canaanites |
GOD, 2 |
Red Sea |
Euphrates |
Blessing |
Idolatry |
GODS |
Fellowship |
DESERT |
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NET Notes: Exo 23:20 The form is the Hiphil perfect of the verb כּוּן (kun, “to establish, prepare”).
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NET Notes: Exo 23:21 This means “the manifestation of my being” is in him (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 247). Driver quotes McNeile as saying, “The ‘angel...
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NET Notes: Exo 23:22 The infinitive absolute here does not add as great an emphasis as normal, but emphasizes the condition that is being set forth (see GKC 342-43 §1...
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NET Notes: Exo 23:24 Both verbs are joined with their infinitive absolutes to provide the strongest sense to these instructions. The images of the false gods in Canaan wer...
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NET Notes: Exo 23:25 On this unusual clause B. Jacob says that it is the reversal of the curse in Genesis, because the “bread and water” represent the field wo...
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NET Notes: Exo 23:26 No one will die prematurely; this applies to the individual or the nation. The plan of God to bless was extensive, if only the people would obey.
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NET Notes: Exo 23:27 The text has “and I will give all your enemies to you [as] a back.” The verb of making takes two accusatives, the second being the adverbi...
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NET Notes: Exo 23:30 The repetition expresses an exceptional or super-fine quality (see GKC 396 §123.e).
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NET Notes: Exo 23:31 In the Hebrew Bible “the River” usually refers to the Euphrates (cf. NASB, NCV, NRSV, TEV, CEV, NLT). There is some thought that it refers...
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