What does Deuteronomy 7:14 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle."
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 7:6 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...
BARREN. Compare Exodus 23:26....
_not … barren_ Exodus 23:26 (edit.); cp. above on Deuteronomy 7:13....
_VER._ 12-15. _WHEREFORE—IF YE HEARKEN TO THESE JUDGMENTS,_ &C.— See the notes on chap. 28: Respecting _the diseases of Egypt,_ Mr. Locke observes, that they were noisome ulcers, which were called _Eg...
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 shall bring thee into...
_THOU SHALT THEREFORE KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS, AND THE STATUTES, AND THE JUDGMENTS, WHICH I COMMAND THEE THIS DAY, TO DO THEM._ Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments ... In the covenant into which...
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...
ALL PEOPLE. — Literally, _all the peoples: i.e.,_ all other states and communities....
בָּר֥וּךְ תִּֽהְיֶ֖ה מִ כָּל ־הָ עַמִּ֑ים לֹא ־יִהְיֶ֥ה בְךָ֛ עָקָ֥ר וַֽ עֲקָרָ֖ה וּ בִ...
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 tempt...
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 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...
_Cattle. This shews, that no precept to marry is here given, but only a blessing. Even men cannot be commanded not to be barren, as that is not in their own power. It was, however, deemed a mark of so...
All these are so many beautiful recapitulations of the same important precepts and promises blended. Upon so grand and infinitely momentous a concern, we need line upon line, and precept upon precept....
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 res...
THOU SHALT BE BLESSED ABOVE ALL PEOPLE,.... Even with temporal blessings, besides those of a religious kind; they having the oracles of God, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, a...
Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. Ver. 14. _Thou shalt be blessed._] There is a μυριομακαριοτης in godliness. 1Ti 6:6 _...
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...
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,...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
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 7:14 blessed H1288 (H8803) peoples H5971 male H6135 barren H6135 livestock H929 blessed - Deuteronomy 33:29; Psalms 115:15, Psalms 147:19-20 male or - Deuteronomy 28:4, Deuteronomy 28:1
THEIR REWARD FOR FAITHFULNESS AND OBEDIENCE TO HIS COVENANT WILL BE MULTIPLIED BLESSING (DEUTERONOMY 7:12). a It shall come about that because you listen to these ordinances, and keep and do them, th...
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 7:12 Obedience to the COVENANT leads to blessings for Israel (see Deuteronomy 28:1). EVIL DISEASES may refer to the plagues against Egypt (Exodus 7:1), or to more commo...
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 28:11; Deuteronomy 28:4; Deuteronomy 33:29; Exodus 23:26; Leviticus 26:9; Psalms 115:15; Psalms 127:3; Psalms 147:19; Psalms 147:20...