But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.
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But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.
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But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
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But if thou shalt indeed hearken unto his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
Cross-references (6)
Passages linked to Exodus 23:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 12:3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”
- Deuteronomy 30:7 Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.
- Zechariah 2:8 For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.
- Jeremiah 30:20 Their children also will be as before, and their congregation will be established before me. I will punish all who oppress them.
- Numbers 24:9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed.”
- Acts 9:4-5 He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” He said, “Who are you, Lord?” The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 23:22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his…
Exo 23:22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
Ver. 22. An enemy unto thine enemies.] There is a covenant offensive and defensive betwixt God and his people. Tua causa erit mea causa, said that emperor to his wronged friend: so saith God to his.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain All that I speak; all that I have already…
All that I speak; all that I have already commanded, and shall further prescribe by him unto Moses.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thou shalt not bow down to their gods,.... In…
Thou shalt not bow down to their gods,.... In a way of honour to them, doing them reverence, expressing thereby an high esteem of them, trust in them, and expectation of good things from them:
nor serve them: in any kind of service in which they usually are served by their votaries; as by offering sacrifice, incense, libations, &c. or by praying to them or praising of them, or in whatsoever way they are served by idolaters:
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nor do after their works; the works of the worshippers of idols; all those wicked works in general done by them, which should not be imitated; and those particularly relating to the service and worship of their deities:
but thou shalt overthrow them; the heathen gods; utterly destroy them, and break them to pieces, or demolish their temples, the idolatrous houses built for them, and their altars; for the word has the signification, of demolishing buildings, and razing up the very foundations of them:
and quite break down their images; or, "in breaking break down" (o); utterly and entirely break them down, break them to shivers, all their statues of gold or silver, brass, wood, or stone, or of whatsoever materials they were made; none were to be spared, nor any remains of them to be seen, that they might not prove a snare to any to worship them; and hereby they were to express their detestation of idolatry, and their strict and close adherence to the true God, and the worship of him as follows.
(o) "confringendo confringes", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius, "perfringendo perfringito", Piscator.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The rendering in the margin is better. Cf. Deu…
The rendering in the margin is better. Cf. Deu 20:4.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 22. Obedience to God’s commands will be, as ever,…
22. Obedience to God’s commands will be, as ever, the guarantee of His effectual help.
all that I speak] viz. through the angel. His speech is identical with Jehovah’s.
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23–25a. Generally regarded as an expansion of the original text: as Di. points out, the warning against idolatry in Canaan is not only out of place in a series of promises (vv. 22b, 25b, 26, &c.), but it anticipates the conquest promised in v. 27 f. With both these verses and vv. 31b–33, comp. Exo_34:12-16.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (22) An adversary unto thine adversaries.—Rather, an afflictor of…
(22) An adversary unto thine adversaries.—Rather, an afflictor of thy afflictors.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain If thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do…
If thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak. The change of persons in the latter clause that I speak," instead of "all that he speaks implies the doctrine of the perienchoresis or circuminsessio, that God the Father is in the Son and the Spirit, as they are in him. An adversary to thy adversaries. Rather "an affiictor of thy affiictors."
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