Verse Deuteronomy 7:2. _THOU SHALT SMITE THEM, C._] These idolatrous nations were to be utterly destroyed, and all the others also which were contiguous to the boundaries of the promised land, provid...
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. The native races of Canaan are to be exterminated and everything connected with their religion destroyed, lest Israel be seduced by them to idolatry. For the list of nations, see Genesi...
DESTROY THEM. devote them to destruction. Hebrew. _haram._ Compare Exodus 23:24; Exodus 34:12, and see note on Deuteronomy 7:16....
_deliver them up before_ See on Deuteronomy 1:8. _thou shall utterly destroy them put to the ban, herem_. See on Deuteronomy 2:34. _make no covenant with them_ no treaty or alliance; so in JE, Exodus...
_VER._ 2. _THOU SHALT SMITE THEM, AND UTTERLY DESTROY THEM_— i.e. In case they continue obstinate in their idolatry, they are to be destroyed as a nation or body politic: but if they forsook their ido...
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
_AND WHEN THE LORD THY GOD SHALL DELIVER THEM BEFORE THEE; THOU SHALT SMITE THEM, AND UTTERLY DESTROY THEM; THOU SHALT MAKE NO COVENANT WITH THEM, NOR SHEW MERCY UNTO THEM:_ Thou shalt ... utterly de...
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...
AND WHEN THE LORD THY GOD SHALL DELIVER THEM BEFORE THEE.... — It would be possible to read, “_Then_ the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee, and thou shalt smite.” Or the sentence might also...
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...
And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them (a) before thee; thou shalt smite them, [and] utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: (a) Into thy power....
League. Yet Josue, (ix. 3,) by mistake, entered into one with the Gabaonites, and observed it; (Haydock) whence we may conclude, that only such leagues are forbidden as would leave these nations in po...
If we consider this sweet chapter as it ought to be considered, spiritually then will it follow, that as the enemies which opposed our fathers, in their possession of Canaan, were all typical of the s...
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...
_NO QUARTER!_ ‘Utterly destroy them.’ Deuteronomy 7:2 Like the rolling of a stone down a hillside, a nation’s downward progress may become uncontrollable, and then sudden extinction will be better...
2._Thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them. _Those who think that there was cruelty in this command, usurp too great authority in respect to Him who is the judge of all. The objection is specio...
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 WHEN THE LORD THY GOD SHALL DELIVER THEM BEFORE THEE,.... Into their hands: THOU SHALT SMITE THEM, AND UTTERLY DESTROY THEM; men, women, and children; which was ordered not merely to make way and...
And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, [and] utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: Ver. 2. _Nor show mercy u...
_Thou shalt smite and utterly destroy them_ That is, in case they continued obstinate in their idolatry, they were to be destroyed, as nations, or bodies politic. But if they forsook their idolatry, a...
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...
THE ERADICATION OF IDOLATRY COMMANDED...
and when the Lord, thy God, shall deliver them before thee, give them into the hands of the children of Israel, so that they would be witnesses of His power, THOU SHALT SMITE THEM AND UTTERLY DESTROY...
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...
NO COVENANT WITH THEM, to spare them, or permit them to dwell with thee in the land. Other nations had more favour, but these were for their great wickedness, and for the good of Israel, devoted to ut...
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 7:2 LORD H3068 God H430 delivers H5414 (H8804) to H6440 conquer H5221 (H8689) utterly H2763 ...
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 7:1 DEVOTE THEM TO COMPLETE DESTRUCTION. See Deuteronomy 2:34;...
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;...
2 Samuel 21:2; Deuteronomy 20:10; Deuteronomy 20:11; Deuteronomy 20:16;...