Exodus 23:20-33 - Reasons For Loyal Obedience
20 Behold, I send a messenger before thee to guard thee in the way, and to bring thee to the place which I prepared. 21 Watch from his face, and hear to his voice; thou shalt not rebel against him: he will not lift up your transgression; for my name is in the midst of him. 22 For if hearing thou shalt hear to his voice, and to all that I shall speak; and I was an enemy to thine enemies, and I was hostile to thine adversaries. 23 For my messenger shall go before thee, and bring thee to the Amorites, and the Hittites and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I destroyed them. 24 Thou shalt not worship to their gods, and thou shalt not serve them, and thou shalt not do according to their works: for destroying, thou shalt destroy them, and breaking, thou shalt break in pieces their pillars. 25 And serve ye Jehovah your God, and he blessed thy bread, and thy waters; and I turned away disease from the midst of thee. 26 And there shall not be bereaving of children or barren upon thy land: the number of thy days I will fill up.
27 I will send my terror before thee and I killed all the people which thou shalt come to them; and I gave all thine enemies the back to thee. 28 And I sent hornets before thee and to drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before thee. 29 I will not drive them out from thy face in one year, lest the land shall be desolate, and the beast of the field multiply upon thee. 30 By little and little I will drive them out from thy face, till when thou shalt be fruitful and thou didst inherit the land. 31 And I put thy bounds from the sea of sedge, and even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert even to the river: for I will give into your hand those inhabiting the land, and thou drove them out from before thee. 32 Thou shalt not make a covenant with them and to their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they shall cause thee to sin against me: if thou shalt serve their gods, surely shall it be to thee for a snare.