Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Deuteronomy 7:26
Lest thou be a cursed thing Hebrew, חרם, cherem, devoted to utter destruction, as that and every thing was that had been employed to an idolatrous use.
Lest thou be a cursed thing Hebrew, חרם, cherem, devoted to utter destruction, as that and every thing was that had been employed to an idolatrous use.
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...
A CURSED THING. Hebrew. thing devoted to destruction; Compare Deuteronomy 13:17; Joshua 6:18; Isaiah 34:5; Isaiah 43:28...
_a devoted thing ḥerem_, see on Deuteronomy 2:34; cp. Deuteronomy 13:17 (18). Persons using or touching anything that was _ḥerem_or under the ban, themselves became _ḥerem_, cp. Joshua 6:18;...
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...
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...
ABOMINATION] i.e. an idol, as in Deuteronomy 16:22. A CURSED THING] RV 'a devoted thing,' a thing laid under the ban of extermination. The verb from the same root is rendered UTTERLY DESTROY in Deuter...
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...
וְ לֹא ־תָבִ֤יא תֹֽועֵבָה֙ אֶל ־בֵּיתֶ֔ךָ וְ
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...
_An anathema. That is, a thing devoted to destruction; and which carries along with it a curse. (Challoner) --- Like it. The curse rested upon those who kept any of the spoils. This brought death upon...
REFLECTIONS MY soul! pause over the review which thou hast made in this chapter, both of the enemies of Israel, and Israel's GOD driving them out before him. Bring home to thine own heart the circumst...
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...
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...
NEITHER SHALT THOU BRING AN ABOMINATION INTO THY HOUSE,.... An idol, so the Targum of Jonathan, the abominations of idols and their utensils, or what is ministered to them, with anything that appertai...
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 EXTERMINATION OF THE HEATHEN NATIONS ENJOINED...
Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it, having been defiled by contact with it; but thou shalt utterly detest it, look upon it only with the utmo...
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...
A CURSED THING, i.e. devoted to utter destruction, as that was. See JOSHUA 7:11,21,24, &c....
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 7:26 bring H935 (H8686) abomination H8441 house H1004 destruction H2764 utterly H8262 (H8763) detest H
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...
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;...
Deuteronomy 13:17; Ezekiel 11:18; Ezekiel 14:7; Habakkuk 2:9; Hos