Exodus 23:20-33
Yahweh Will Drive Out Israel’s Enemies
20“Behold, I am going to send aan angel before you to keep you along the way and bto bring you into the place which I have prepared. 21“Keep watch of yourself before him and listen to his voice; ado not be rebellious toward him, for he will not pardon your transgression, since bMy name is in him. 22“But if you truly listen to his voice and do all that I speak, then aI will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. 23“aFor My angel will go before you and bring you in to the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I will annihilate them. 24“aYou shall not worship their gods, you shall not serve them, and you shall not do according to their deeds; bbut you shall utterly pull them down and shatter their csacred pillars in pieces. 25“aBut you shall serve Yahweh your God, 1and He will bless your bread and your water; and bI will remove sickness from your midst. 26“There shall be no one miscarrying or abarren in your land; bI will fulfill the number of your days. 27“I will asend My terror ahead of you and bthrow into confusion all the people among whom you come, and I will cmake all your enemies 1turn their backs to you. 28“And I will send ahornets ahead of you so that they will bdrive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites before you. 29“aI will not drive them out before you in a single year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. 30“I will drive them out before you alittle by little, until you become fruitful and take the land as an inheritance. 31“aAnd I will set your boundary from the 1Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the 2River; bfor I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will cdrive them out from before you. 32“aYou shall cut no covenant with them bor with their gods. 33“aThey shall not live in your land, lest they make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, bit will surely be a snare to you.”