New American Standard Bible 1995
Deuteronomy 7:2-16
2and when the Lord your God delivers them before you and you 1defeat them, 2then you shall 3utterly destroy them. 4You shall make no covenant with them 5and show no favor to them. 3Furthermore, 6you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your 7daughters to 8their sons, nor shall you take 9their daughters for your 10sons. 4For 11they will turn your 12sons away from 13following Me to serve other gods; then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you and 14He will quickly destroy you. 5But thus you shall do to them: 15you shall tear down their altars, and smash their sacred pillars, and hew down their 16Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire. 6For you are 17a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be 18a people for His 19own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the 20earth.
7“21The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8but because the Lord loved you and kept the 22oath which He swore to your forefathers, 23the Lord brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of 24slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9Know therefore that the Lord your God, 25He is God, 26the faithful God, 27who keeps 28His covenant and 29His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who 30love Him and keep His commandments; 10but 31repays those who hate Him to 32their faces, to destroy 33them; He will not delay 34with him who hates Him, He will repay him to his face. 11Therefore, you shall keep the commandment and the statutes and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.
12“35Then it shall come about, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you 36His covenant and 37His lovingkindness which He swore to your forefathers. 13He will 38love you and bless you and 39multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock, 40in the land which He swore to your forefathers to give you. 14You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no male or female 41barren among you or among your cattle. 1542The Lord will remove from you all sickness; and He will not put on you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but He will lay them on all who hate you. 16You shall consume all the peoples whom the Lord your God will deliver to you; 43your eye shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that would be 44a snare to you.
Notes
- 1. Deuteronomy 7:2 Lit smite ↩
- 2. Deuteronomy 7:2 Num 31:17; Josh 11:11 ↩
- 3. Deuteronomy 7:2 Lit surely devote to the ban ↩
- 4. Deuteronomy 7:2 Ex 23:32 ↩
- 5. Deuteronomy 7:2 Deut 7:16; 13:8 ↩
- 6. Deuteronomy 7:3 Ex 34:15, 16; Josh 23:12; Ezra 9:2 ↩
- 7. Deuteronomy 7:3 Lit daughter ↩
- 8. Deuteronomy 7:3 Lit his son ↩
- 9. Deuteronomy 7:3 Lit his daughter ↩
- 10. Deuteronomy 7:3 Lit son ↩
- 11. Deuteronomy 7:4 Lit he ↩
- 12. Deuteronomy 7:4 Lit son ↩
- 13. Deuteronomy 7:4 Lit after ↩
- 14. Deuteronomy 7:4 Deut 4:26 ↩
- 15. Deuteronomy 7:5 Ex 23:24; 34:13; Deut 12:3 ↩
- 16. Deuteronomy 7:5 I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity ↩
- 17. Deuteronomy 7:6 Ex 19:6; Deut 14:2, 21; Ps 50:5; Jer 2:3 ↩
- 18. Deuteronomy 7:6 Ex 19:5; Deut 4:20; 14:2; 26:18; Ps 135:4; Titus 2:14; 1 Pet 2:9 ↩
- 19. Deuteronomy 7:6 Or special treasure ↩
- 20. Deuteronomy 7:6 Lit ground ↩
- 21. Deuteronomy 7:7 Deut 4:37 ↩
- 22. Deuteronomy 7:8 Ex 32:13 ↩
- 23. Deuteronomy 7:8 Ex 13:3 ↩
- 24. Deuteronomy 7:8 Lit slaves ↩
- 25. Deuteronomy 7:9 Deut 4:35, 39 ↩
- 26. Deuteronomy 7:9 Is 49:7; 1 Cor 1:9; 1 Thess 5:24; 2 Tim 2:13 ↩
- 27. Deuteronomy 7:9 Ex 20:6; Dan 9:4 ↩
- 28. Deuteronomy 7:9 Lit the ↩
- 29. Deuteronomy 7:9 Lit the ↩
- 30. Deuteronomy 7:9 Deut 5:10 ↩
- 31. Deuteronomy 7:10 Is 59:18; Nah 1:2 ↩
- 32. Deuteronomy 7:10 Lit his face ↩
- 33. Deuteronomy 7:10 Lit him ↩
- 34. Deuteronomy 7:10 Lit to ↩
- 35. Deuteronomy 7:12 Lev 26:3-13; Deut 28:1-14 ↩
- 36. Deuteronomy 7:12 Lit the ↩
- 37. Deuteronomy 7:12 Lit the ↩
- 38. Deuteronomy 7:13 Ps 146:8; Prov 15:9; John 14:21 ↩
- 39. Deuteronomy 7:13 Lev 26:9; Deut 13:17; 30:5 ↩
- 40. Deuteronomy 7:13 Lit on the ground ↩
- 41. Deuteronomy 7:14 Ex 23:26 ↩
- 42. Deuteronomy 7:15 Ex 15:26 ↩
- 43. Deuteronomy 7:16 Deut 7:2 ↩
- 44. Deuteronomy 7:16 Ex 23:33; Judg 8:27; Ps 106:36 ↩
Commentaries on Deuteronomy 7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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