New American Standard Bible 2020
Deuteronomy 7:2-16
2and when the Lord your God turns them over to you and you 1defeat them, 2you shall 3utterly destroy them. 4You shall not make a covenant with them 5nor be gracious 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, and they will serve other gods; then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you and 14He will quickly destroy you. 5But this is what you shall do to them: 15you shall tear down their altars, smash their memorial stones, cut their 16Asherim to pieces, and burn their carved images in the 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 personal possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the 19earth.
7“20The Lord did not 21make you His beloved nor choose you because you were greater in number than any of the peoples, since 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 faithfulness to a thousand generations for those who 30love Him and keep His commandments; 10but He 31repays those who hate Him to 32their faces, to eliminate 33them; He will not hesitate toward him who hates Him, He will repay him to his face. 11Therefore, you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.
12“34Then it shall come about, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep 35His covenant with you and 36His faithfulness which He swore to your forefathers. 13And He will 37love you, bless you, and 38make you numerous; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain, your new wine, and your oil, the newborn of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, 39in the land which He swore to your forefathers to give you. 14You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no sterile male or 40infertile female among you or among your cattle. 15And 41the Lord will remove from you all sickness; and He will not inflict upon you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but He will give them to all who hate you. 16You shall consume all the peoples whom the Lord your God will turn over to you; 42your eye shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that would be 43a snare to you.
Notes
- 1. Deuteronomy 7:2 Lit strike ↩
- 2. Deuteronomy 7:2 Num 31:17; Josh 11:11 ↩
- 3. Deuteronomy 7:2 Or certainly 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 (Asherah) ↩
- 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 Lit ground ↩
- 20. Deuteronomy 7:7 Deut 4:37 ↩
- 21. Deuteronomy 7:7 Or become so attached to ↩
- 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 7:12 Lev 26:3-13; Deut 28:1-14 ↩
- 35. Deuteronomy 7:12 Lit the ↩
- 36. Deuteronomy 7:12 Lit the ↩
- 37. Deuteronomy 7:13 Ps 146:8; Prov 15:9; John 14:21 ↩
- 38. Deuteronomy 7:13 Lev 26:9; Deut 13:17; 30:5 ↩
- 39. Deuteronomy 7:13 Lit on the ground ↩
- 40. Deuteronomy 7:14 Ex 23:26 ↩
- 41. Deuteronomy 7:15 Ex 15:26 ↩
- 42. Deuteronomy 7:16 Deut 7:2 ↩
- 43. 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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