For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
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Interpretation
It is here promised that they should be guided and kept in their way through the wilderness to the land of promise, Behold, I send an angel before you, mine angel. The precept joined with this promise is, that they be obedient to this angel whom God would send before them.
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This thought runs through Exodus 23:20-23.
Glossary
- Amorites People
- Highlanders, or hillmen, the name given to the descendants of one of the sons of Canaan ( Gen. 14:7 ), called Amurra or Amurri in the Assyrian and Egyptian inscriptions.
- Perizzites People
- Villagers; dwellers in the open country, the Canaanitish nation inhabiting the fertile regions south and south-west of Carmel.