And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
I will send an Angel before thee. Yahweh here announces that He would employ some providential agency in accomplishing the promise made to their fathers; though, beyond a faithful fulfillment of His engagemets, He would henceforth take no special interest in the nation.