Deu 7:1-2, Jos 10:42, 21:43-45, 24:11-12, Psa 44:2-3 | 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 7:1-2

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

Joshua 10:42

because.

14; Ex 14:14,25; De 20:4; Ps 44:3-8; 46:1,7,11; 80:3; 118:6

Isa 8:9,10; 43:4; Ro 8:31-37

Joshua 21:43-45

Ge 12:7; 13:15; 15:13-21; 26:3,4; 28:4,13,14; Ex 3:8; 23:27-31

Ps 44:3; 106:42-45

1:15; 11:23; 22:4,9; De 7:22-24; 31:3-5; Heb 4:9

23:14,15; Nu 23:19; 1Ki 8:56; 1Co 1:9; 1Th 5:24; Tit 1:2; Heb 6:18

Joshua 24:11-12

And ye.

3:14-17; 4:10-12,23; Ps 114:3,5

the men.

6:1-27; 10:1-11:23; Ne 9:24,25; Ps 78:54,55; 105:44; Ac 7:45; 13:19

I sent.

Ex 23:28; De 7:20

not.

Ps 44:3-6

Psalms 44:2-3

drive out.

78:55; 80:8; 105:44; 135:10-12; 136:17-22; Ex 15:17,19; 34:11

De 7:1; Jos 10:42; 11:23; 21:43; Ne 9:22-27

how thou didst afflict, etc.Or, rather, "how thou didst afflict the peoples (of Canaan,) and madest them (the Hebrews) to shoot forth;" for {shalach} is to send forth in any manner, and is applied to a vine spreading its roots, etc. Ps 89:9; Eze 17:6; Jer 17:8; and this sense is parallel with plantedst in the former line.

Ex 23:28; Nu 13:32; Jos 10:11; 24:12; 1Sa 5:6,7

For.

De 4:37,38; 8:17,18; Jos 24:12; Zec 4:6; 2Co 4:7

thy right.

17:7; 20:6; 74:11; Ex 15:16; Isa 63:12

light.

42:5,11; 80:16

because.

Nu 14:8; De 7:7,8; 1Sa 12:22; Mal 1:2,3; Ro 9:10-15