John Gill's Exposition on Exodus 23:31

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And I will set thy bounds, etc.] The bounds of the land of Canaan, which in process of time it should reach unto, though not at once, not until the times of David and Solomon, (<100801>2 Samuel 8:1-18 <110424>1 Kings 4:24) which bounds were as follow: from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines: the Red sea was the boundary eastward, as the sea of the Philistines, or the Mediterranean sea, was the boundary westward: and from the desert unto the river; the desert of Shur or Arabia, towards Egypt, was the boundary southward, as the river Euphrates was the boundary northward, and is the river here meant, as the Targum of Jonathan expresses it; and so Jarchi interprets it, and generally others: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; the greater part upon their entrance into it, and settlement in it, and the rest afterwards: and thou shalt drive them out before thee; not all at once, but by degrees, as before observed.

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