Deu 7 | TSK | STEP | All communion with the nations is forbidden; for fear of idolatry; for the holiness of the people; for the nature of God in his mercy and justice; for the assuredness of victory which God will give over them. the Lord. the Hittites.With respect to the situation of these nations in the land of Canaan, Calmet remarks, that the Canaanites chiefly inhabited Phoenecia; the Hittites, the mountains south of the promised land; the Hivites, mount Ebal, and Gerizim, and towards Hermon; the Girgashites, beyond Jordan, towards the lake of Gennesareth, the Jebusistes, about Jerusalem; the Amorites, the mountains west of the Dead Sea, and part of the land of Moab; and that the Perizzites were probably not a distinct nation, but villagers scattered through the country. greater.

Deuteronomy 7

1 All communion with the nations is forbidden;

5 for fear of idolatry;

6 for the holiness of the people;

9 for the nature of God in his mercy and justice;

17 for the assuredness of victory which God will give over them.

the Lord.

4:38; 6:1,10,19,23; 9:1,4; 11:29; 31:3,20; Ex 6:8; 15:7; Nu 14:31

Ps 44:2,3; 78:55

the Hittites.With respect to the situation of these nations in the land of Canaan, Calmet remarks, that the Canaanites chiefly inhabited Phoenecia; the Hittites, the mountains south of the promised land; the Hivites, mount Ebal, and Gerizim, and towards Hermon; the Girgashites, beyond Jordan, towards the lake of Gennesareth, the Jebusistes, about Jerusalem; the Amorites, the mountains west of the Dead Sea, and part of the land of Moab; and that the Perizzites were probably not a distinct nation, but villagers scattered through the country.

Ge 15:18-21; Ex 23:28; 33:2

greater.

4:38; 4:1-3; 20:1

deliver.

23,24; 3:3; 23:14; Ge 14:20; Jos 10:24,25,30,32,42; 21:44; Jud 1:4

utterly.

20:16,17; Le 27:28,29; Nu 33:52; Jos 6:17-25; 8:24; 9:24; 10:28,40

Jos 11:11,12

make no.

20:10,11; Ex 23:32,33; 34:12-16; Jos 2:14; 9:18-21; Jud 1:24; 2:2

2Sa 21:2

Ge 6:2,3; Ex 34:15,16; Jos 23:12,13; Jud 3:6,7; 1Ki 11:2

Ezr 9:1,2; Ne 13:23-27; 2Co 6:14-17

so will.

6:15; 32:16,17; Ex 20:5; Jud 2:11,20; 3:7,8; 10:6,7

destroy.

12:2,3; Ex 23:24; 34:13; 2Ki 23:6-14

images. Heb. statues, or pillars.

16:22; Le 26:1

and cut.

Jud 6:25,26

burn.

25; 9:21; Ex 32:20

an holy.

14:2; 26:19; 28:9; Ex 19:5,6; Ps 50:5; Jer 2:3; Am 3:2; 1Co 6:19,20

Tit 2:14; 2Pe 2:5,9

to be a special.

Mal 3:17; Tit 2:14

The Lord.

Ps 115:1; Ro 9:11-15,18,21; 11:6; 1Jo 3:1; 4:10

ye were.

10:22; Isa 51:2; Mt 7:14; Lu 12:32; Ro 9:27-29

because.

4:37; 9:4,5; 10:15; 1Sa 12:22; 2Sa 22:20; Ps 44:3; Isa 43:4; Jer 31:3

Zep 3:17; Mt 11:26; Eph 2:4,5; 2Th 2:13,14; Tit 3:3-7; 1Jo 4:19

oath.

Ge 22:16-18; Ex 32:13; Ps 105:8-10,42; Lu 1:55,72,73; Heb 6:13-17

Lord brought.

4:20,34; Ex 12:41,42; 13:3,14; 20:2

the faithful.

Ex 34:6,7; Ps 119:75; 146:6; Isa 49:7; La 3:23; 1Co 1:9; 10:3

2Co 1:18; 1Th 5:24; 2Th 3:3; 2Ti 2:13; Tit 1:2; Heb 6:18; 10:23

Heb 11:11; 1Jo 1:9

which keepeth.

5:10; Ge 17:7; Ex 20:6; Ne 1:5; Da 9:4; Ro 8:28; 1Co 8:3; Jas 1:12

a thousand.

1Ch 16:15

repayeth.

9; 32:35,41; Ps 21:8,9; Pr 11:31; Isa 59:18; Na 1:2; Ro 12:19

slack.

32:25; 2Pe 3:9,10

hateth.

Ex 20:5; Joh 15:23-24

4:1; 5:32; Joh 14:15

if. Heb. because.

28:1; Le 26:3

Lord.

9; Ps 105:8-10; Mic 7:20; Lu 1:55,72,73

he will love.

7; 28:4; Ex 23:25; Ps 1:3; 11:7; 144:12-15; Joh 14:21; 15:10; 16:27

he will also.

28:3-5,11,15-18; Job 42:12; Pr 10:22; Mal 3:10,11; Mt 6:33

blessed.

33:29; Ps 115:15; 147:19,20

male or.

28:4,11; Ex 23:26-33; Le 26:9; Ps 127:3

will put none.The Israelites, if obedient, would have been subject to no maladies but those common to fallen man, and generally very healthy and long lived; being exempted from pestilential diseases, which have often most tremendously scourged guilty nations; and from such maladies in particular, as they had witnessed in Egypt, by which God afflicted their cruel oppressors, (Ex 15:26.) This must be referred to the national covenant; for though godliness often secures the most solid temporal advantages, yet temporal blessings were not, even among them, uniformly dispensed to individuals according to their obedience; but they were to the nation, with an exactness which is not observed towards any other people.

Le 26:3,4

will put none.

28:27,60; Ex 9:11; 15:26; Ps 105:36,37

consume.

thine eye.

13:8; 19:13,21; 25:12; Jer 21:7

for that will.

12:30,31; Ex 23:33; 34:12-16; Nu 33:55; Jos 23:13-16; Jud 2:3,12

Jud 3:6; 8:27; Ps 106:36; 1Co 15:33

thou shalt.

8:17; 15:9; 18:21; Isa 14:13; 47:8; 49:21; Jer 13:22; Lu 9:47

These nations.

Nu 13:32; 33:53; Jos 17:16-18

shalt not.

1:29; 3:6; 31:6; Ps 27:1,2; 46:1,2; Isa 41:10-14

remember.

Ex 7:1-14:31; Jud 6:13; Ps 77:11; 78:11,42-51; 105:5,26-36

Ps 135:8-10; 136:10-15; Isa 51:9,10; 63:11-15

great.

4:34; 11:2-4; 29:3; Ne 9:10,11; Jer 32:20,21; Eze 20:6-9

so shall.

Jos 3:10

the hornet.

Ex 23:28-30; Jos 24:12

the Lord.

Nu 9:20; 14:9,14,42; 16:3; 23:21; Jos 3:10; 2Ch 32:8; Ps 46:5,7,11

Isa 8:9,10; Zec 2:10,11; 1Co 14:25

a mighty God.

10:17; 25:8; 1Sa 4:8; Ne 1:5; 4:14; 9:32; Zec 12:2-5

put out. Heb. pluck off. thou mayest.As the Israelites were not yet sufficiently numerous to fill the whole land occupied by these nations; and as wild and ferocious animals might be expected to multiply where the place was but thinly peopled, therefore God informs them that their extermination from before them should be gradual. Haynes says, "The approaching to Cana, at the close of the day, as we did, is at once terrifying and dangerous. The surrounding country swarms with wild beasts, such as tigers, leopards, jackals, etc., whose cries and howling, I doubt not, would strike the boldest traveller, who had not been frequently in a like situation, with the deepest sense of horror."

Ex 23:29,30; Jos 15:63

the Lord.

unto thee. Heb. before thy face.

9:3

shall destroy.

2:15; 8:20; Isa 13:6; Jer 17:18; Joe 1:15; 2Th 1:9

he shall.

Jos 10:24,25,42; 12:1-6

their name.

9:14; 25:19; 29:20; Ex 17:14; Ps 9:5; Pr 10:7; Jer 10:11; Zep 1:4

there shall.

11:25; Jos 1:5; 10:8; 23:9; Isa 54:17; Ro 8:37; 1Co 15:57