Exodus 23:20-33 - Reasons For Loyal Obedience
20 Behold, I send a [heavenly] agent before thee, to keep thee by the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. 21 Take ye heed before him, and hearken to his voice, provoke him not. For he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him. 22 But if thou shall indeed hearken to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to thine enemies, and an adversary to thine adversaries. 23 For my [heavenly] agent shall go before thee, and bring thee in to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, and I will cut them off. 24 Thou shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works, but thou shall utterly overthrow them, and break their pillars in pieces. 25 And ye shall serve LORD your God, and he will bless thy bread, and thy water, and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. 26 There shall none cast her young, nor be barren, in thy land; I will fulfill the number of thy days.
27 I will send my terror before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shall come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs to thee. 28 And I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. 29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee. 30 Little by little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. 31 And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River. For I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and thou shall drive them out before thee. 32 Thou shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me, for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to thee.