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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 7
Israel to destroy seven nations of Canaan—Marriages with them are
forbidden lest apostasy results—Israel has a mission as a holy and
chosen people—The Lord shows mercy unto those who love him and keep his
commandments—He promises to remove sickness from Israel if they
hearken.
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1 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, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the
Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites, seven anations greater and mightier than
thou;
2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before
thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly adestroy
them; thou shalt bmake no ccovenant with
them, nor shew mercy unto them:
3 Neither shalt thou make amarriages
with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter
shalt thou take unto thy son.
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4 For they will aturn away thy son
from following me, that they may bserve other gods: so will
the canger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy
thee suddenly.
5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall
adestroy their altars, and break down their
bimages, and cut down their cgroves, and
burn their graven images with fire.
6 For thou art aan
bholy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath
cchosen thee to be a dspecial people unto
himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
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7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 But because the LORD aloved you,
and because he would keep the boath which he had sworn unto
your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and
credeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of
Pharaoh king of Egypt.
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9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is
God, the faithful God, which akeepeth covenant and
bmercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to
a thousand generations;
10 And arepayeth them that hate him
to their face, to bdestroy them: he will not be slack to
him that chateth him, he will repay him to his face.
11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and
the statutes, and the ajudgments, which I
bcommand thee this day, to do them.
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12 ¶ Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye
ahearken to these bjudgments, and keep,
and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the
ccovenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
13 And he will alove thee, and
bless thee, and bmultiply thee: he will also bless the
fruit of thy womb, and the cfruit of thy land, thy
dcorn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy
kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy
fathers to give thee.
14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there
shall not be male or female abarren among you, or among
your cattle.
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15 And the LORD will take away from thee all
asickness, and will put none of the evil
bdiseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will
lay them upon all them that hate thee.
16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the
LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them:
neither shalt thou serve their agods; for that will
be a snare unto thee.
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17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
19 The great atemptations which
thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the bwonders, and the
mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee
out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art
afraid.
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20 Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD
thy God is among you, a mighty God and aterrible.
22 And the LORD thy God will aput
out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume
them at once, lest the bbeasts of the field increase upon
thee.
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23 But the LORD thy God shall
adeliver them unto thee, and shall
bdestroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be
destroyed.
24 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
25 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 LORD thy God.
26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into
thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like
it:a but thou shalt utterly
detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
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26a Neither shalt thou bring an
abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it:
Isreal had been commanded and warned. They would not destroy all from the land
as God had commanded. They would turn from the Lord and desire a king like
unto the other nations. And their kings would bring in other nations in
amongst them, and with them those other gods. And when Israel did turn unto
those other gods to worship, Israel was cursed and the Lord did destroy them
and scatter them and bring them into bondage; for they did not do as the Lord
would have them do and they did bring those abominations into their own house.
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