Exodus 23:32 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

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 contracted any alliance with them, either sacred or civil, they would have enticed them into their idolatries, to which the Jews were at all times most unhappily prone; and as God intended that they should be the preservers of the true religion till the coming of the Messiah, hence he strictly forbade them to tolerate idolatry.

Exodus 23:32

32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.