Exodus 23:25-27 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

And ye shall serve the Lord your God— In consequence of their utter extirpation of idols and idolatry, and their obedience to God, he promises every sort of temporal blessings: Plenty of meat and drink; implied in the words bread and water; see 1 Samuel 25:11. Health; I will take sickness away, &c. Fruitfulness and increase, Exodus 23:26 and long life; the number of thy days I will fulfil. See Psalms 90:10; Psalms 55:23 besides which, the Lord promises to send a panic fear upon their enemies; which we find verified, Judges 2:9-11 and confirmed by an old inscription in Procopius, (lib. 2: De Reb. Vandal.) found not far from Tangier, which imported, that the ancient inhabitants of that country had fled from the face of Joshua, the son of Nun.

Exodus 23:25-27

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.

26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.

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 backsh unto thee.