Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God [is] among you, a mighty God and terrible.
Ver. 21. For the Lord thy God is amongst you.] And how many do you reckon him for? as Antigonus said once to his soldiers, when they feared their enemies as more in number.
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
MIGHTY. great. TERRIBLE. to be feared....
_Thou shalt not be affrighted_ This, combined with the verb _be afraid_(Deuteronomy 7:18), is found in Pl. passages. _in the midst of thee_ Deuteronomy 6:15. _great God and … terrible_ Cp. D
b. DIFFICULTIES OF THE HOLY WAR (Deuteronomy 7:17-26) 17 If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? 18 thou shalt not be afraid of them: thou shalt well...
_THOU SHALT NOT BE AFFRIGHTED AT THEM: FOR THE LORD THY GOD IS AMONG YOU, A MIGHTY GOD AND TERRIBLE._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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...
לֹ֥א תַעֲרֹ֖ץ מִ פְּנֵיהֶ֑ם כִּֽי ־יְהוָ֤ה אֱ
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...
_Fear. Septuagint, "be wounded." In the war with the Madianites, not one was killed, (Numbers xxxi. 49,) as Josephus ([Antiquities?] iii. 2) informs us, was also the case when king Amalec and his peop...
Do not overlook the frequency of the expression, neither the vast and infinite importance of it; for it is the foundation of every other comfort, wherein JEHOVAH calls himself by that distinguishing c...
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...
THOU SHALL NOT BE AFFRIGHTED AT THEM,.... At their numbers, nor at their gigantic stature: FOR THE LORD THY GOD IS AMONG YOU: in the tabernacle, in the holy of holies, which was in the midst of them,...
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...
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them, filled with the terror of little faith; FOR THE LORD, THY GOD, IS AMONG YOU, A MIGHTY GOD AND TERRIBLE, whose judgments made Him an object of dread among all nati...
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...
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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 7:21 terrified H6206 (H8799) of H6440 LORD H3068 God H430 great H1419 awesome H3372 (H8737) God...
THEY MUST THOROUGHLY CLEANSE THE LAND OF BOTH ITS PEOPLES AND ITS IDOLATRY, AND HE HIMSELF WILL BE WITH THEM TO ENABLE THEM TO DO IT (DEUTERONOMY 7:16). This reference to their enemies who hate them l...
Deuteronomy 7:21 I. The complaint has been made often that the qualities which Christians are especially encouraged to cultivate are not manliness and courage; that, so far as the Christian ideal is s...
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...
_Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible._ COURAGE AND HUMANITY I. The complaint has been made often that the qualities which Christians are...
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 14:25; 1 Samuel 4:8; 2 Chronicles 32:8; Deuteronomy 10:17;...