11:22
Later on there will be a detailed list of blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience. In this chapter we have a kind of mini-version of that. This verse gives another summary of what is required. We are to love the Lord our God, we are to walk in obedience, and we are to hold fast to Him. Obedience is vital, and Jesus emphasised this aspect as well (John 14:15; 15:10). We also need to hold on to the Lord. When the pressure is on we hold fast to the Lord, not looking for some other source of rescue.
11:23
The reward, or the fruit, of doing these things is that the Lord would drive out all the nations, and “they would dispossess nations larger and stronger than you”. So yet again we see that God does something, and His people also do it. Living a life of trust and obedience makes us greater than we otherwise are.
11:24
“Every place where you set your feet ...” God’s initial command to mankind was to have dominion over the earth. Abraham was told that all nations would be blessed through him. Here there is a more limited extent to this dominion, it is firmly set in the context of the Promised Land.
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