The silver or gold that is on them - The silver and gold with which the statues of the gods were overlaid. Paul is probably alluding to this command in Romans 2:22; and his accusation of the Jew thus shows that the prohibition of the text was very necessary.
Lest thou be snared - As by the rich ephod made by Gideon: compare the marginal reference.
Verse Deuteronomy 7:25. _THOU SHALT NOT DESIRE THE SILVER OR GOLD_ THAT IS _ON_ _THEM_] Some of the ancient idols were plated over with gold, and God saw that the value of the metal and the excellenc...
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...
BURN. burn up. See App-43....
_The graven images … burn with fire_ Deuteronomy 7:5. Curiously in the Pl., as there is an otherwise Sg. context (the text is confirmed by Sam. and LXX). Steuern marks the verse as secondary, but unne...
_VER._ 25. _THOU SHALT NOT DESIRE THE SILVER OR GOLD THAT IS ON THEM_— The statues and images of their gods were sometimes overlaid with gold and silver. Moses therefore thinks fit to caution them aga...
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...
NOR TAKE _it_ UNTO THEE] Achan did so and brought trouble upon himself and Israel: see Joshua 7....
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...
These words are a special warning against the sin which Achan committed (Joshua 7:21): “I coveted them, and took them.” They also describe the consequences which he experienced, together with his whol...
פְּסִילֵ֥י אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֖ם תִּשְׂרְפ֣וּן בָּ † אֵ֑שׁ לֹֽא...
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...
The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold [that is] on them, nor take [it] unto thee, lest thou (k) be snared therein: for it [is] an abominatio...
CHAPTER VII. _ Graven things. Idols, so called by contempt. (Challoner) --- Made. Hebrew, "gold (plates) on them," to cover the wood, &c. See ver. 5._...
The gracious promise of GOD to put out Israel's enemies, by little and little, merits the very particular consideration of all GOD'S Israel now; for the battle is the same; and both the victory and gl...
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...
25._The graven images of their gods. _He again impresses upon them the object of the destruction of the nations, but he goes further than before. He had before forbidden them to worship their gods. He...
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...
THE GRAVEN IMAGES OF THEIR GODS SHALL YE BURN WITH FIRE,.... Which is repeated from Deuteronomy 7:5, that it might be the more observed and strictly performed, and which unless done, they could not ex...
The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold [that is] on them, nor take [it] unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it [is] an abomination to...
_The silver or the gold_ Wherewith the idols were covered or adorned, nor consequently any other of their ornaments. This God commanded, to show his utter detestation of idolatry, and to cut off all o...
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 graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire; thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, with which they were overlaid, OR TAKE IT UNTO THEE, LEST THOU BE SNARED THEREIN, the...
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...
THAT IS ON THEM, wherewith the idols are covered or adorned, nor consequently any other of their ornaments. This he commands to show his utter detestation of idolatry, and to cut off all occasions of...
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 7:25 burn H8313 (H8799) images H6456 gods H430 fire H784 covet H2530 (H8799) silver H3701 gold...
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 7:22 I. There can be no doubt that these passages represent the Jewish nation as bound to a perpetual conflict with idolatry. The resistance was primarily an internal one. The members of t...
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 desire the silver or gold._ THINGS NOT TO BE DESIRED Showing, as he always shows, a most penetrating mind, Moses points to a very subtle temptation which would arise in connection wit...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 7:25 BURN. See note on v. 5. ABOMINATION refers to a significant sin with which God is especially angry. devoted t
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 Chronicles 14:12; 1 Timothy 6:10; 1 Timothy 6:9; Deuteronomy 17:1;...
The silver or gold — Wherewith the idols are covered or adorned, nor consequently any other of their ornaments. This he commands to shew his utter detestation of idolatry, and to cut off all occasions...