Deuteronomy 7:1

CHAPTER VII

With the seven nations that God shall cast out, 1,

they shall make no covenant, 2,

nor form any matrimonial alliances, 3;

lest they should be enticed into idolatry, 4.

All monuments of idolatry to be destroyed, 5.

The Israelites are to consider themselves a holy people, 6;

and that the Lord had made them such, not for their merits, but

for his own mercies, 7, 8.

They shall therefore love him, and keep his commandments, 9-11.

The great privileges of the obedient, 12-24.

All idolatry to be avoided, 25, 26.

NOTES ON CHAP. VII

Verse Deuteronomy 7:1. Seven nations greater and mightier than thou] In several places of the Hebrew text, each of these seven nations is not enumerated, some one or other being left out, which the Septuagint in general supply. How these nations were distributed over the land of Canaan previously to the entering in of the Israelites, the reader may see in the note on "Joshua 3:10".