23:25,26
“You shall serve the Lord your God ...” Our natural approach to life is to focus on how we overcome the problems and enemies that we face. The Bible presents a rather different approach. The general approach is that God takes care of the enemies and problems, and we focus on serving the Lord. Obviously, this is a broad brush picture of things, but it contains useful truths. So here in 23:23 we read of God blotting out the enemies, in 23:25 and 26 Israel was to serve the Lord, and God would bless their food and water and take sickness away from them. When Jesus came to earth He took sickness away from people. There would be fruitfulness and long life.
23:27,28
We then come back to the enemies, and God promises to send hornets among them. Hornets were feared and could cause immense problems. Israel’s enemies would be thrown into confusion, and they would turn away from Israel. It is God who defeats our enemies. Israel would still be marching into the land, but it would be God who drives out the enemies.
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