"I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enem…" — Exodus 23:27

Exodus 23:27 · KJV

“I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. {backs: Heb. neck}”

— Exodus 23:27

Verse 26

There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.

Verse 28

And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.

Exodus 23 — Context

And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.

I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. {backs: Heb. neck}

And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.

I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 2:25

This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations {that are} under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.

Genesis 35:5

And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that {were} round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

Deuteronomy 11:25

There shall no man be able to stand before you: {for} the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.

Deuteronomy 7:23

But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed. {unto...: Heb. before thy face}

Exodus 15:14-16

The people shall hear, {and} be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.

Psalms 18:40

Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.

2 Kings 7:6

For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, {even} the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.

Deuteronomy 11:23

Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.