George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Deuteronomy 7:13
Womb. He will grant thee many children. (Menochius) --- This was esteemed a very great blessing, at a time when they might hope to give birth to the Messias. (Calmet)
Womb. He will grant thee many children. (Menochius) --- This was esteemed a very great blessing, at a time when they might hope to give birth to the Messias. (Calmet)
FLOCKS OF THY SHEEP - Render it instead: “the ewes of thy sheep.” The phrase is unique to Deuteronomy. The Hebrew word for “ewes” is the plural form of Ashtoreth, the well-known name of the “goddess o...
3. THE POSSESSION OF THE LAND AND THEIR SEPARATION CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The command to destroy the Canaanites (Deuteronomy 7:1)_ 2. The command to destroy their idolatry (Deuteronomy 7:5) 3. The promise...
DEUTERONOMY 7:6 gives reasons why Israel ought to serve Yahweh. Deuteronomy 7:9. Render, know therefore that Yahweh thy God is the (_i.e._ the true, see Deuteronomy 4:35) God, the faithful God, one w
WINE. Hebrew. _tirosh._ See App-27. INCREASE. Hebrew. _sheger,_ only here, Deuteronomy 28:4; Deuteronomy 28:18; Deuteronomy 28:51, and...
_love … bless … and multiply thee_ Cp. Genesis 22:17 (E?), Genesis 26:24 (J), _bless_and _multiply_; note the characteristic addition _love_by D. The blessings which follow are material; similarly but...
_VER._ 12-15. _WHEREFORE—IF YE HEARKEN TO THESE JUDGMENTS,_ &C.— See the notes on chap. 28: Respecting _the diseases of Egypt,_ Mr. Locke observes, that they were noisome ulcers, which were called _Eg...
LESSON SEVEN DEUTERONOMY 7:1-26 6. DEFENDING THE FAITH: NECESSITY OF THE HOLY WAR (Deuteronomy 7:1-26) a. THE REASONS FOR THE HOLY WAR (Deuteronomy 7:1-15) When Jehovah thy God s
_THOU SHALT THEREFORE KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS, AND THE STATUTES, AND THE JUDGMENTS, WHICH I COMMAND THEE THIS DAY, TO DO THEM._ Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments ... In the covenant into which...
7:13 increase (c-42) According to some, 'ewes,' as propagating the flock. Heb. 'ashtaroth,' or 'astartes' of the flock; and so ch. 28.4,18,51....
On the promise of material prosperity as the reward of obedience, see on Exodus 20:12....
PRACTICAL EXHORTATIONS (CONTINUED) In this chapter the people are warned against temptations to idolatry and enjoined to avoid contact with their idolatrous neighbours: see on Exodus 23:32; Numbers 2...
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 7 V1 ‘The *LORD your God will bring you into the country that you will possess. He will force o...
THE FLOCKS. — The word here employed for flocks is peculiar to Deuteronomy in this sense. It occurs in Deuteronomy 28:4; Deuteronomy 28:18; Deuteronomy 28:51. It is in form identical with Ashtaroth, a...
וַ אֲהֵ֣בְךָ֔ וּ בֵרַכְךָ֖ וְ הִרְבֶּ֑ךָ וּ
THE BAN Deuteronomy 7:1 As in the previous chapter we have had the Mosaic and Deuteronomic statement of the internal and spiritual means of defending the Israelite character and faith from the tempta...
WHAT THE LORD DOES FOR HIS PEOPLE Deuteronomy 7:12 The promises to obedience are enlarged upon with touching copiousness. Love, blessing, keeping, peace, multiplication, fruit and health lie along th...
Continuing to deal with the responsibilities of the people as they entered the land, Moses insisted upon the absolute necessity for the maintenance of the attitude of separation to God. Stringent inst...
All these are so many beautiful recapitulations of the same important precepts and promises blended. Upon so grand and infinitely momentous a concern, we need line upon line, and precept upon precept....
In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be called an abstract typical system. That is, we see in them a number of institutions laid down by Jehovah, the pattern of which wa...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 5, 6, AND 7. In chapter 5 Moses reminds them of the ten commandments given in Horeb; and it is to be remarked, that the deliverance out of Egypt (not the rest...
AND HE WILL LOVE THEE,.... As he has done, and rest in his love, and give further instances and proofs of it: AND BLESS THEE, AND MULTIPLY THEE; that is bless thee with a multiplication of offspring,...
And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the...
_The covenant and the mercy_ That is, the covenant of mercy, which he, out of his own mere grace, made with them. _He will love thee_ He will continue to love thee, and to manifest his love to thee....
1 All communion with the Nations is forbidden, 4 for feare of Idolatrie, 6 for the holinesse of the people, 9 for the nature of God in his Mercie and Iustice, 17 for the assurednesse of victorie w...
And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee, as manifestations of His love; HE WILL ALSO BLESS THE FRUIT OF THY WOMB, in granting a numerous posterity, AND THE FRUIT OF THY LAND, THY CORN...
THE EXTERMINATION OF THE HEATHEN NATIONS ENJOINED...
ISRAEL SEPARATED TO GOD (vs.1-11) Again the Lord emphasizes the importance of Israel's sanctification from the nations. When they entered the land, God would give them victory over the inhabitants, a...
12-26 We are in danger of having fellowship with the works of darkness if we take pleasure in fellowship with those who do such works. Whatever brings us into a snare, brings us under a curse. Let us...
HE WILL LOVE THEE; he will continue to love thee, and to manifest his love to thee, he will not repent of his love to thee....
When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee,... seven nations greater and mightier than thou. And when the Lord th...
Deuteronomy 7:13 love H157 (H8804) bless H1288 (H8765) multiply H7235 (H8689) bless H1288 (H8765) fruit...
THEIR REWARD FOR FAITHFULNESS AND OBEDIENCE TO HIS COVENANT WILL BE MULTIPLIED BLESSING (DEUTERONOMY 7:12). a It shall come about that because you listen to these ordinances, and keep and do them, tha...
CONTENTS: Command to be separate people and to destroy opposing nations. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Those who are taken into communion with God must have no communication with the unfruitfu...
Deuteronomy 7:3. _Neither make marriages with them._ See note on Ezra 10:2. Deuteronomy 7:5. _And cut down their groves._ The patriarchal devotion being performed at first on hills, and in places dest...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 7:12 Obedience to the COVENANT leads to blessings for Israel (see Deuteronomy 28:1). Evil dis
CRITICAL NOTES.—Israel is forwarded against the idolatry of the people whose country they were about to enter (_cf_. Deuteronomy 6:14). The nations were more powerful than Israel, but God would delive...
EXPOSITION ENTIRE SEPARATION FROM IDOLATROUS NATIONS ENJOINED. DEUTERONOMY 7:1 The Israelites were about to enter on a country occupied by idolaters, and they are commanded not to spare them or to a...
Now in chapter seven, When God brings you into the land and cast out these enemies that are bigger and stronger than you are; And he delivers them from before you; and smites them, and destroys them;...
Deuteronomy 28:11; Deuteronomy 28:15; Deuteronomy 28:3; Deuteronomy 28:4;...
He will love thee — He will continue to love thee, and to manifest his love to thee....