King James Version
Exodus 23:30 in the King James Version says “By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 23 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.”
Exodus 23:30 · KJV
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.
By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“I will drive them out”
H1644to drive out from a possession; especially to expatriate or divorce
“from before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“and inherit”
H5157to inherit (as a (figurative) mode of descent), or (generally) to occupy; causatively, to bequeath, or (generally) distribute, instate
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
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