Exodus 23:22
Good News Translation
But if you obey him and do everything I command, I will fight against all your enemies.

New Revised Standard Version
But if you listen attentively to his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.

Contemporary English Version
If you faithfully obey him, I will be a fierce enemy of your enemies.

New American Bible
If you obey him and carry out all I tell you, I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if thou wilt hear hi voice, and do all that I speak, I will be an enemy to thy enemies, and will afflict them that afflict thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But if thou wilt hear hi voice, and do all that I speak, I will be an enemy to thy enemies, and will afflict them that afflict thee.

an enemy

Genesis 12:3 I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and IN THEE shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

Numbers 24:9 Lying down he hath slept as a lion, and as a lioness, whom none shall dare to rouse. He that blesseth thee, shall also himself be blessed: he that curseth thee shall be reckoned accursed.

Deuteronomy 30:7 And he will turn all these curses upon thy enemies, and upon them that hate and persecute thee.

Jeremiah 30:20 And their children shall be as from the beginning, and their assembly shall be permanent before me: and I will visit against all that afflict them.

Zechariah 2:8 For thus saith the Lord of hosts: After the glory he hath sent me to the nations that have robbed you: for he that toucheth you, toucheth the apple of my eye:

Acts 9:4,5 And falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? . . .

an adversary unto thing adversaries.

Context
God's Angel to Lead
21Take notice of him, and hear his voice, and do not think him one to be contemned: for he will not forgive when thou hast sinned, and my name is in him. 22But if thou wilt hear hi voice, and do all that I speak, I will be an enemy to thy enemies, and will afflict them that afflict thee.23And my angel shall go before thee, and shall bring thee in unto the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherexite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hevite, and the Jebuzite, whom I will destroy.…
Cross References
2 Thessalonians 1:6
Seeing it is a just thing with God to repay tribulation to them that trouble you:

Genesis 12:3
I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and IN THEE shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

Numbers 24:9
Lying down he hath slept as a lion, and as a lioness, whom none shall dare to rouse. He that blesseth thee, shall also himself be blessed: he that curseth thee shall be reckoned accursed.

Deuteronomy 28:1
Now if thou wilt hear the voice of all his commandments, which I command thee this day, the Lord thy God will make thee higher than all the nations that are on the earth.

Deuteronomy 30:7
And he will turn all these curses upon thy enemies, and upon them that hate and persecute thee.

Exodus 23:21
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