“Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Exodus 34:11. Observe that which I command thee. Although these supplements belong alike to the First and Second Commandment, still it was fit to postpone them to this place; because in them God applied a remedy to all external and manifest superstitions, which might easily have insinuated themselves had they not been anticipated in good time.
The traitors are pardoned and made favorites again. When the covenant was broken, Israel broke it; now that it is renewed, God makes it, so if there be peace, God must have all the glory. These marvels are without precedent, the joy of Israel and the terror of their enemies, wrought to confirm their faith and prove His dominion over nations.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 34:10-17
Observe thou that which I command thee this day,.... Which words are either said to Moses personally, as Aben Ezra thinks, as a direction to him to observe what had been said to him, and declare them to the children of Israel; or rather to the children of Israel, and respect the commands which are afterwards delivered out to be observed by them in the...