Esodo 23:32

32 Non far lega alcuna con loro, nè co’ loro iddii.

Esodo 23:32 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 23:32

Thou shalt make no covenant with them
A covenant of peace, a league, a confederacy, so as to take them to be their allies and friends; but they were always to consider them as their enemies, until they had made an utter end of them; though the Gibeonites by craft and guile obtained a league of them; but the methods they took to get it show they had some knowledge of this law, that the Israelites might not, or at least would not, make any league or covenant with the inhabitants of the land of Canaan. This may be also extended to marriage covenants, which they were forbid to make with them; which yet they did, and proved a snare to them, for this brought them to makes a covenant with their gods, and serve them, which is here also forbidden:

nor with their gods;
making vows unto them, promising to serve them, if they would do such and such things for them.

Esodo 23:32 In-Context

30 Io li scaccerò dal tuo cospetto a poco a poco, finchè tu sii cresciuto, e abbi presa la possessione del paese.

31 E io porrò i tuoi confini dal mar rosso fino al mar de’ Filistei; e dal deserto fino al Fiume; perciocchè io darò nelle vostre mani gli abitanti del paese, e tu li scaccerai dinanzi a te.

32 Non far lega alcuna con loro, nè co’ loro iddii.

33 Non abitino essi nel tuo paese, chè talora non ti facciano peccare contro a me; conciossiachè tu serviresti agl’iddii loro; perciocchè quello ti sarebbe in laccio.