Exodus 23:29

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I will not send them all out in one year, for fear that their land may become waste, and the beasts of the field be increased overmuch against you.

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  • Deut 7:22 : 22 The Lord your God will send out the nations before you little by little; they are not to be rooted out quickly, for fear that the beasts of the field may be increased overmuch against you.
  • Judg 3:1-4 : 1 Now these are the nations which the Lord kept in the land for the purpose of testing Israel by them, all those who had had no experience of all the wars of Canaan; 2 Only because of the generations of the children of Israel, for the purpose of teaching them war--only those who up till then had no experience of it; 3 The five chiefs of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites and the Zidonians and the Hivites living in Mount Lebanon, from the mountain Baal-hermon as far as Hamath: 4 For the purpose of testing Israel by them, to see if they would give ear to the orders of the Lord, which he had given to their fathers by the hand of Moses.
  • Josh 15:63 : 63 And as for the Jebusites living in Jerusalem, the children of Judah were unable to make them go out; but the Jebusites are living with the children of Judah at Jerusalem, to this day.
  • Josh 16:10 : 10 And the Canaanites who were living in Gezer were not forced out; but the Canaanites have been living among Ephraim, to this day, as servants, doing forced work.
  • Josh 17:12-13 : 12 But the children of Manasseh were not able to make the people of those towns go out; but the Canaanites would go on living in that land. 13 And when the children of Israel had become strong, they put the Canaanites to forced work, in place of driving them out.

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  • Exod 23:30-33
    4 verses
    86%

    30 Little by little I will send them away before you, till your numbers are increased and you take up your heritage in the land.

    31 I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the waste land to the river Euphrates: for I will give the people of those lands into your power; and you will send them out before you.

    32 Make no agreement with them or with their gods.

    33 Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to you.

  • Exod 23:26-28
    3 verses
    82%

    26 All your animals will give birth without loss, not one will be without young in all your land; I will give you a full measure of life.

    27 I will send my fear before you, putting to flight all the people to whom you come; all those who are against you will go in flight, turning their backs before you.

    28 I will send hornets before you, driving out the Hivite and the Canaanite and the Hittite before your face.

  • Deut 7:22-23
    2 verses
    80%

    22 The Lord your God will send out the nations before you little by little; they are not to be rooted out quickly, for fear that the beasts of the field may be increased overmuch against you.

    23 But the Lord your God will give them up into your hands, overpowering them till their destruction is complete.

  • Judg 2:3
    74%

    3 And so I have said, I will not send them out from before you; but they will be a danger to you, and their gods will be a cause of falling to you.

  • Judg 2:21-23
    3 verses
    73%

    21 From now on I will not go on driving out from before them any of the nations which at the death of Joshua were still living in this land;

    22 In order to put Israel to the test, and see if they will keep the way of the Lord, walking in it as their fathers did, or not.

    23 So the Lord let those nations go on living in the land, not driving them out quickly, and did not give them up into the hands of Joshua.

  • Josh 24:12
    72%

    12 And I sent the hornet before you, driving out the two kings of the Amorites before you, not with your sword and your bow.

  • Num 33:55
    72%

    55 But if you are slow in driving out the people of the land, then those of them who are still there will be like pin-points in your eyes and like thorns in your sides, troubling you in the land where you are living.

  • Exod 33:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2 And I will send an angel before you, driving out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite:

    3 Go up to that land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, for fear that I send destruction on you while you are on the way.

  • Josh 23:13
    71%

    13 Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you; but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

  • Exod 34:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11 Take care to do the orders which I give you today; I will send out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

    12 But take care, and do not make any agreement with the people of the land where you are going, for it will be a cause of sin to you.

  • Deut 11:23
    70%

    23 Then the Lord will send these nations in flight before you, and you will take the lands of nations greater and stronger than yourselves.

  • Exod 23:23
    70%

    23 And my angel will go before you, guiding you into the land of the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, and they will be cut off by my hand.

  • Deut 9:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4 And after the Lord has sent them in flight from before you, say not in your heart, Because of my righteousness the Lord has given me this land; when it is because of their evil-doing that the Lord is driving these nations out before you.

    5 Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • Josh 23:5
    70%

    5 The Lord your God will send them away by force, driving them out before you; and you are to take their land for your heritage, as the Lord your God said to you.

  • Deut 7:20
    70%

    20 And the Lord will send a hornet among them, till all the rest who have kept themselves safe from you in secret places have been cut off.

  • Judg 1:27-29
    3 verses
    69%

    27 And Manasseh did not take away the land of the people of Beth-shean and its daughter-towns, or of Taanach and its daughter-towns, or of the people of Dor and its daughter-towns, or of the people of Ibleam and its daughter-towns, or of the people of Megiddo and its daughter-towns, driving them out; but the Canaanites would go on living in that land.

    28 And whenever Israel became strong, they put the Canaanites to forced work, without driving them out completely.

    29 And Ephraim did not make the Canaanites who were living in Gezer go out; but the Canaanites went on living in Gezer among them.

  • Deut 7:17
    69%

    17 If you say in your hearts, These nations are greater in number than we are: how are we to take their land from them?

  • Exod 34:24
    69%

    24 For I will send out the nations before you and make wide the limits of your land; and no man will make an attempt to take your land while you go up to give worship to the Lord, three times in the year.

  • Lev 26:22
    69%

    22 I will let loose the beasts of the field among you, and they will take away your children and send destruction on your cattle, so that your numbers will become small and your roads become waste.

  • Lev 20:23
    69%

    23 And do not keep the rules of the nations which I am driving out before you; for they did all these things, and for that reason my soul was turned against them.

  • Deut 7:1
    69%

    1 When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you;

  • Lev 26:6
    69%

    6 And I will give you peace in the land, and you will take your rest and no one will give you cause for fear; and I will put an end to all evil beasts in the land, and no sword of war will go through your land.

  • Ezek 29:11
    69%

    11 No foot of man will go through it and no foot of beast, and it will be unpeopled for forty years.

  • Josh 23:9
    69%

    9 For the Lord has sent out from before you nations great and strong: and they have all given way before you till this day.

  • Deut 4:38
    68%

    38 Driving out before you nations greater and stronger than you, to take you into their land and give it to you for your heritage, as at this day.

  • Deut 12:29
    68%

    29 When the people of the land where you are going have been cut off before you by the Lord your God, and you have taken their land and are living in it;

  • Lev 18:24
    68%

    24 Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:

  • Josh 17:12-13
    2 verses
    67%

    12 But the children of Manasseh were not able to make the people of those towns go out; but the Canaanites would go on living in that land.

    13 And when the children of Israel had become strong, they put the Canaanites to forced work, in place of driving them out.

  • Deut 9:28
    67%

    28 Or it may be said in the land from which you have taken them, Because the Lord was not able to take them into the land which he said he would give them, and because of his hate for them, he has taken them out to put them to death in the waste land.

  • Ezek 14:15
    67%

    15 Or if I send evil beasts through the land causing destruction and making it waste, so that no man may go through because of the beasts:

  • Deut 28:25
    67%

    25 The Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you will go out against them one way, and you will go in flight before them seven ways: you will be the cause of fear among all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Num 33:52
    67%

    52 See that all the people of the land are forced out from before you, and put to destruction all their pictured stones, and all their metal images, and all their high places:

  • Ezek 32:13
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    13 And I will put an end to all her beasts which are by the great waters, and they will never again be troubled by the foot of man or by the feet of beasts.

  • Exod 3:17
    66%

    17 And I have said, I will take you up out of the sorrows of Egypt into the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, into a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Neh 9:24
    66%

    24 So the children went in and took the land, and you overcame before them the people of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them up into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them whatever it was their pleasure to do.

  • Exod 1:10
    66%

    10 Let us take care for fear that their numbers may become even greater, and if there is a war, they may be joined with those who are against us, and make an attack on us, and go up out of the land.