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No Treaties, No Idols
Commentators explain that this command was both political and spiritual. In the ancient world, treaties between nations often required acknowledging the other's gods. Therefore, making a covenant with the Canaanites would have been a direct path to idolatry, which God strictly forbids.
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Exodus
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Charles Ellicott
On Exodus 23:32
19th Century
Bishop
You shall make no covenant with them — that is, no treaty of peace; no arrangement by which one part of the land shall be…
John Gill
On Exodus 23:32
17th Century
Pastor
Thou shalt make no covenant with them
A covenant of peace, a league, a confederacy, so as to take them to be their a…
Matthew Henry
On Exodus 23:20–33
17th Century
Minister
It is here promised that they would be guided and kept in their way through the wilderness to the land of promise: Behold, I send an angel befo…