Exodus 34:24

An ideal picture. The Israelites may feel quite secure in observing these pilgrimages; fortheir enemies will be dispossessed, and their territory enlarged, so that, even though their men are absent from their homes on pilgrimage, no one will think of invading their land.

cast out dispossess (Judges 11:23 EVV., 24 RV.). The thoughtas Exodus 23:27 f.; the expressionas Deuteronomy 4:38; Deuteronomy 9:4-5; Deuteronomy 11:23; Deuteronomy 18:12 (EVV. in all, drive out, which, however, confuses the word with the different one (gârash) so rendered in v.11 here), all with Jehovah as subject.

goest up viz. to Jerusalem, for pilgrimages to which -go up" was the technical expression (1 Kings 12:27-28; Isaiah 2:3; Psalms 122:4).