Peculiar. Hebrew sogula, laid up like something most precious and desirable. (Menochius) --- God seemed to have abandoned other nations to the corruption of their own heart. "This was, by a particular mystery, a prophetical nation." (St. Augustine, ep. cii.) (Exodus xix. 5.) (Calmet) --- Therefore must they destroy every idol in their land, to set a pattern to all other less favoured nations how they ought also to treat them.
Verse Deuteronomy 7:6. _THOU ART A HOLY PEOPLE_] And therefore should have no connection with the workers of iniquity. _A SPECIAL PEOPLE_] סגלה _segullah_, - Septuagint, λαον περιουσιον, - a _peculi...
See Deuteronomy 6:10 note. Deuteronomy 7:5 THEIR GROVES - Render, their idols of wood: the reference is to the wooden trunk used as a representation of Ashtaroth; see...
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
HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:5. CHOSEN. This is the word emphasized by the Hebrew accent (_pas_. _h)_, "thee hath Jehovah chosen". This is the basis of all else that is here stated. SPECIAL. peculiar....
_an holy people unto_ JEHOVAH _thy God_ So Deuteronomy 14:2; Deuteronomy 14:21; Deuteronomy 26:19; Deuteronomy
The reasons for the previous commands to destroy the peoples of the land, and to abstain from traffic with them, leading as this would to participation in their worship of other gods. Israel are for J...
DISCOURSE: 196 A RIGHT IMPROVEMENT OF ELECTING LOVE Deuteronomy 7:6. Thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself above all peop...
_VER._ 6. _THE LORD HATH CHOSEN THEE_— "Hath distinguished thee by peculiar laws and special favours, Exodus 19:5 yet not leaving himself without witness among any of the nations." See commentary on...
_VER._ 6-11. The reasons are here given for such cautious avoiding whatever might offend God. For, 1. They were a chosen generation to show forth his praises, and therefore bound to answer the graciou...
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
_FOR THOU ART AN HOLY PEOPLE UNTO THE LORD THY GOD: THE LORD THY GOD HATH CHOSEN THEE TO BE A SPECIAL PEOPLE UNTO HIMSELF, ABOVE ALL PEOPLE THAT ARE UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH._ For thou art an holy...
7:6 possession, (b-25) Or 'a peculiar people,' see Exodus 19:5 ; Psalms 135:4 ; Malachi 3:17 ....
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...
Special people] RV 'peculiar people': see on Exodus 19:5....
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...
AN HOLY PEOPLE. — Not merely “a holy nation” (as in Exodus 19:6), but “a holy _people” i.e.,_ a _state_ of which holiness to Jehovah was the very constitution. If God pleased to establish such a state...
כִּ֣י עַ֤ם קָדֹושׁ֙ אַתָּ֔ה לַ יהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֶ֑
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...
NO COMPROMISE WITH IDOLATRY Deuteronomy 6:20; Deuteronomy 7:1 The great Lawgiver had His eye constantly on the coming generation. It is good when the children are so arrested by our religious life, t...
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...
Who can read this without crying out with Moses, "Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people, saved by the LORD?" And who but must wish to be of the number of Israel! Deuteronomy 33:29....
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...
6._For thou art a holy people. _He explains more distinctly what we have lately seen respecting God’s gratuitous love; for the comparison of the fewness of the people with the whole world and all nati...
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...
FOR THOU ART AN HOLY PEOPLE UNTO THE LORD THY GOD,.... Not sanctified in a spiritual sense, or having principles of grace and holiness in them, from whence holy actions sprang, at least not all of the...
_For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that [are] upon the face of the earth._ Ver. 6. _For thou...
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...
For thou art an holy people unto the Lord, thy God, consecrated to Him, set apart for His service; THE LORD, THY GOD, HATH CHOSEN THEE TO BE A SPECIAL PEOPLE UNTO HIMSELF, a peculiar people, a people...
THE ERADICATION OF IDOLATRY COMMANDED...
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...
1-11 Here is a strict caution against all friendship and fellowship with idols and idolaters. Those who are in communion with God, must have no communication with the unfruitful works of darkness. Li...
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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 7:6 holy H6918 people H5971 LORD H3068 God H430 LORD H3068 God H430 chosen H977 (H8804) people...
CHAPTER 7 THEY MUST REMOVE THE CANAANITES FROM THE LAND, HAVING NO TRUCK WITH THEM AND MUST GO FORWARD WITH CONFIDENCE IN THE DELIVERER FROM EGYPT, FOR HE HAS SET HIS LOVE ON THEM AND WILL DO THEM GOO...
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 7:6 HOLY TO THE LORD. Holiness means being exclusively separated to God. Israel must have no association with pagan religion. CHOSEN. See...
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;...
1 Corinthians 6:19; 1 Corinthians 6:20; 2 Peter 2:5; 2 Peter 2:9; A