Exodus 34:24

Neither shall any man desire thy land— Almost every thing in the Jewish policy tends to prove the immediate interposition of God with them. But nothing can prove it more strongly, than that restraint which the Lord here promises to lay, and which in after-times he did lay, upon the minds of their enemies, while the Israelites went up to appear before him thrice every year. It is manifest, that without such a restraint upon their enemies, the Jewish polity must have been soon utterly subverted; and it is equally manifest, that God alone could lay such a restraint upon minds. Note; 1. When God calls, we may safely leave our all in his hands. 2. Every man is under the restraint of a superior power: even the wicked are confined in bounds which they cannot pass oExodus 34:3. God's service is a service of great gladness; they who are faithful in it, find that therein only true joy is to be found.