“ Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. ”
Exodus 23:20-33 E. Closing Discourse ( Exodus 23:23-25 a, Exodus 23:27 , and Exodus 23:31 b - Exodus 23:33 Rd). This passage is highly complex. The verses just noted bear marks of the s...
Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. Thou shalt make no covenant with them - They were incurable idolaters, and the cup of their iniquity was full. And had the Israelites contr...
Thou shalt make no covenant, &c.— From this place, and ch. Exodus 34:11-16 , one cannot help remarking the absurdity of Voltaire's position, that the Jewish religion was a religion of tolerati...
The Book of the Covenant (concluded) 1-19. Miscellaneous Laws.
THE PROMISES OF GOD TO ISRAEL, IF THE COVENANT IS KEPT. (20-33) The Book of the Covenant terminates, very appropriately, with a series of promises. God is “the rewarder of them that diligently see...
PART V.--ITS SANCTIONS. Exodus 23:20-33 . This summary of Judaism being now complete, the people have to learn what mighty issues are at stake upon their obedience. And the transition is very st...
Promise of Entrance into Canaan Exodus 23:18-33 This Angel must have been the Lord himself, for Stephen said expressly that the Angel was with Moses at the burning bush, where Jehovah revealed...
The enactments now recorded have to do with the administration of justice. A study of them reveals that true justice is always merciful and yet makes sterner demand than any moral code of laws. The d...
Are not many things in these precepts of a spiritual tendency? There can be no amity between the works of the flesh and the fruits of the Spirit. See 2 Corinthians 6:15-18 .
Thou shalt make no covenant with them ,.... A covenant of peace, a league, a confederacy, so as to take them to be their allies and friends; but they were always to consider them as their enemies, u...
Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. Ver. 32. No covenant with them. ] Because devoted to destruction; and they will be drawing thee to idolatry, as it also happened in Jdg...
Thou shalt make no covenant with them Thou shalt give no toleration to idol-worship, nor suffer it to be introduced into thy territories. Thou shalt make no league with them, either civil or religi...
INSISTENCE ON HONESTY (vs.1-9) Consistently with the language of law, the question of honesty is looked at from a negative viewpoint, that is, emphasizing what one should not do. How easily one m...
Precepts and Promises. B. C. 1491. 20 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee...
To worship them, as they made a covenant with Jehovah to worship him. The sense is, Thou shalt not engage thyself, either to the people or to their gods, but shalt root out both.
Expansion of the Ten Words of the Covenant ( Exodus 20:22 to Exodus 23:33 ). In this section, which is composed of elements put together mainly in chiastic form (see later), Yahweh expands on th...
MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 23:27-33 THE POWER OF MORAL FORCES In our estimation of the powers of the world we do not always give sufficient prominence to the power of moral force...
Exodus 23:1 . Put not thine hand with the wicked, do not conspire or agree with them. Exodus 23:3 . Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man. The meaning of this and the former verse is, ther...
They shall not dwell in thy land. Lessons 1. God is the sovereign boundmaker to all nations on the earth. 2. Among all God hath promised to set the bounds of His Church on earth. 3. God’s...
THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT .— Continued . EXPOSITION Exodus 23:1-2 MISCELLANEOUS LAWS — continued . The same want of logical arrangement appears in this chapter as in the preced...
Concerning the Continuation of the Journey
shalt make Exodus 34:12 Exodus 34:15 Deuteronomy 7:2 Joshua 9:14-23 2 Samuel 21:1 2 Samuel 21:2 Psalms 106:35 2 Corinthians 6:15 nor with Numbers 25:1 Numbers 25:2 Deuteronomy 7:...