4. Conquest Regulations 23:20-33
Exo 23:20
Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.Exo 23:21
Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.Exo 23:22
But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.Exo 23:23
For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.Exo 23:24
Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.Exo 23:25
And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.Exo 23:26
There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.Exo 23:27
I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.Exo 23:28
And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.Exo 23:29
I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.Exo 23:30
By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.Exo 23:31
And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.Exo 23:32
Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.Exo 23:33
They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.