Exodus 23:20-23

Conquest of Canaan Promised

20 y "Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. 21 Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; z do not rebel against him, a for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.

22 "But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then b I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

23 y "When my angel goes before you and brings you c to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I blot them out,

  1. Cross References
    Exodus 14:19
    Then the angel of God who was going before the ...
    Exodus 33:2
    I will send an angel before you, and I will dri...
    Exodus 33:14
    And he said, "My presence will go with you, and...
    Joshua 5:13 - 14
    When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his ey...
    Joshua 6:2
    And the Lord said to Joshua, "See, I have given...
    Isaiah 63:9
    In all their affliction he was afflicted, and t...
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 78:40
    How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!
    Psalms 78:56
    Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God and did not keep his testimonies.
  3. Cross References
    Exodus 32:34
    But now go, lead the people to the place about which I have spoken to you; behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.
    Exodus 34:7
    Keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.
    Numbers 14:35
    I, the Lord, have spoken. Surely this will I do to all this wicked congregation who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.
    Joshua 24:19
    But Joshua said to the people, "You are not able to serve the Lord, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.
  4. Cross References
    Genesis 12:3
    I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
    Deuteronomy 30:7
    And the Lord your God will put all these curses on your foes and enemies who persecuted you.
    Jeremiah 30:20
    Their children shall be as they were of old, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all who oppress them.
  5. Cross References
    Exodus 23:20
    Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.
  6. Cross References
    Exodus 13:5
    And when the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall keep this service in this month.
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