Exodus 23:27-33 ▼

27 I will have the terror of me precede you, so that I will throw into panic every nation you reach. I will make all your enemies turn from you in flight,

28 and ahead of you I will send hornets to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.

29 But I will not drive them all out before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild animals multiply against you.

30 Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have grown numerous enough to take possession of the land.

31 I will set your boundaries from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates; all who dwell in this land I will hand over to you and you shall drive them out before you.

32 You shall not make a covenant with them or their gods.

33 They must not live in your land. For if you serve their gods, this will become a snare to you.