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Deuteronomy 7:10

to their face i.e. in their own persons; inserted lest the sinner might flatter himself that the punishment of his sin would be deferred to a later generation (Deuteronomy 7:11).

he will not be slack Rather, he will not delay(it).

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See also Deuteronomy 7:10 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DESTROY. cause them to perish. Hebrew. _'abad._ HE. Some codices with one early printed edition, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel Targum of Onkelos, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "and He",...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (9-11) These verses are a direct comment upon the second commandment. The “thousands of them that love Him” are here expanded into a “thousand generations.” The “hatred,” too, is the same thing denote...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּ מְשַׁלֵּ֧ם לְ שֹׂנְאָ֛יו אֶל ־פָּנָ֖יו לְ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And repayeth (e) them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face. (e) Meaning revealed, or in this life....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Deserve. Hebrew, "he will repay to his face," or "he will punish immediately the person who hateth him to his face." God does not always defer the correction of the wicked till their death. (Calmet) -...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    How awful are the expressions we sometimes meet with in scripture, in the midst of mercies. And is not that very gospel, which to some is the savor of life unto life, to others the savor of death unto...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    10._And repayeth them that hate him_. There is no mention here made of the vengeance “unto the third and fourth generation? (222) Those who expound the passage that God confers kindnesses on the wicke...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND REPAYETH THEM THAT HATE HIM TO THEIR FACE, TO DESTROY THEM,.... Openly, publicly, and at once, they not being able to make any resistance. Onkelos interprets it in their lifetime, and so Jarchi wh...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face. Ver. 10. _He will not be slack._] Slow he may be, but sure...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Them that hate him_ Not only those who hate him directly and properly, (for so did few or none of the Israelites to whom he here speaks,) but those who hate him by implication and consequence; those...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE ERADICATION OF IDOLATRY COMMANDED...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    and repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them, in this they get their just dues. HE WILL NOT BE SLACK TO HIM THAT HATETH HIM; HE WILL REPAY HIM TO HIS FACE. God is not like a weak, in...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEM THAT HATE HIM; not only those who hate him directly and properly, (for so did few or none of the Israelites, to whom he here speaks,) but those who hate him by construction and consequence; those...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 7:10 repays H7999 (H8764) hate H8130 (H8802) face H6440 destroy H6 (H8687) slack H309 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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;...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Peter 3:10; 2 Peter 3:9; Deuteronomy 32:25; Deuteronomy 32:35;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Them that hate him — Not only those who hate him directly and properly, (for so did few or none of the Israelites to whom he here speaks,) but those who hate him by construction and consequence; those...

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