but because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which He had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, Exodus 13:3, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the position of shameful serfdom, from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. Israel was never to forget that it was pure love and mercy on God's part which prompted Him to make them His people, and no merit on their part.
Verse Deuteronomy 7:8. _BUT BECAUSE THE LORD LOVED YOU_] It was no good in them that induced God to choose them at this time to be his peculiar people: he had his reasons, but these sprang from his i...
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
LOVED. Hebrew. _'ahab,_ love in its highest sense, love that delights in its object. BONDMEN. Compare Deuteronomy 5:6, and Exodus 20:2....
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...
_loveth you_ With Israel's love to God (see on Deuteronomy 6:5) God's love to Israel is equally characteristic of D and not found elsewhere in Hexateuch; first expressed and very fully in Hosea 1-3 an...
Change to the Pl. address. Because of this and because the choice of Israel by Jehovah is not mentioned in other Pl. passages, and also because these verses are not necessary to the connection, they a...
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._ 6-11. 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...
_VER._ 7, 8. _THE LORD DID NOT SET HIS LOVE UPON YOU,_ &C.— To preserve them from pride and a conceit of their own greatness, Moses here advises them to remember, that it was not their numbers, their...
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...
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...
BUT BECAUSE THE LORD LOVED YOU. — And this, again, was not due to themselves, as he points out fully in Deuteronomy 9:4, &c....
כִּי֩ מֵֽ אַהֲבַ֨ת יְהוָ֜ה אֶתְכֶ֗ם וּ מִ
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...
But because the LORD (c) loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bond...
I hardly know a passage in the Old Testament more sweetly expressive of the freeness and sovereignty of grace; and more encouraging at the same time to the mind of every poor enquiring sinner. Dear JE...
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...
8._Because he would keep the oath. _The love of God is here referred back from the children to the fathers; for he addressed the men of his own generation, when he said that they were therefore God’s...
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...
BUT BECAUSE THE LORD LOVED YOU,.... With an unmerited love; he loved them, because he loved them; that is, because he would love them; his love was not owing to any goodness in them, or done by them,...
But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen,...
_The fewest_ To wit, at that time, when God first declared his choice of you for his peculiar people, which was done to Abraham. For Abraham had but one son concerned in this choice and covenant, name...
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...
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...
BECAUSE THE LORD LOVED YOU, i.e. because it pleased him to love you; it was his free choice, without any cause or motive on your part. Compare DEUTERONOMY 10:15 1 SAMUEL 12:22 PSALMS 44:3....
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 7:8 LORD H3068 loves H160 keep H8104 (H8800) oath H7621 swore H7650 (H8738) fathers H1 LORD...
THE REASON FOR DOING THIS IS BECAUSE IN COMPASSION AND MERCY HE HAS CHOSEN THEM TO THE END THAT THEY ARE HIS HOLY (SET APART FOR HIMSELF) PEOPLE AND HAS SET HIS LOVE ON THEM (DEUTERONOMY 7:7). In this...
REDEEMED (_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 14:30). _...
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...
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 John 4:19; 1 Samuel 12:22; 2 Samuel 22:20; 2 Thessalonians 2:13;...
The Lord loved you — It was his free choice without any cause or motive on your part....