Chapter 7:
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Deuteronomy 7
A command to destroy the Canaanites, with all pertaining to
their idols, ver. 1-5. And to obey God, considering their relation to
him, ver. 6-11. Promises to the obedient, ver. 12-15. A repetition
of the command, utterly to destroy the Canaanites, with all the
monuments of their idolatry, ver. 16-26.
Verse 1. Seven nations - There were ten in Gen. xv, 19-21. But this
being some hundreds of years after, it is not strange if three of
them were either destroyed by foreign or domestick wars, or by
cohabitation and marriage united with, and swallowed up in the
rest.
Verse 4. To serve other Gods - That is, there is manifest danger of
apostacy and idolatry from such matches. Which reason doth both
limit the law to such of these as are unconverted (otherwise
Salmon married Rahab, Matt. i, 5) and enlarge it to other
idolatrous nations, as appears from 1 Kings xi, 2 Ezra ix, 2 Neh.
xiii, 23.
Verse 5. Their graves - Which idolaters planted about the temples and
altars of their Gods. Hereby God designed to take away
whatsoever might bring their idolatry to remembrance, or
occasion the reviving of it.
Verse 7. The fewest - To wit, at that time when God first declared his
choice of you for his peculiar people, which was done to
Abraham. For Abraham had but one son concerned in this choice
and covenant, namely, Isaac, and that was in his hundredth year;
and Isaac was sixty years old ere he had a child, and then had only
two children; and though Jacob had twelve sons, it was a long
time before they made any considerable increase. Nor do we read
of any great multiplication of them 'till after Joseph's death.
Verse 8. The Lord loved you - It was his free choice without any cause
or motive on your part.
Verse 10. Them that hate him - Not only those who hate him directly
and properly, (for so did few or none of the Israelites to whom he
here speaks,) but those who hate him by construction and
consequence; those who hate and oppose his people, and word,
those who wilfully persist in the breach of God's commandments.
To their face - That is, openly, and so as they shall see it, and not
be able to avoid it. Slack - So as to delay it beyond the fit time or
season for vengeance, yet withal he is long-suffering, and slow to
anger.
Verse 12. The covenant and the mercy - That is, the covenant of mercy,
which he out of his own mere grace made with them.
Verse 13. He will love thee - He will continue to love thee, and to
manifest his love to thee.
Verse 15. The diseases of Egypt - Such as the Egyptians were infected
with, either commonly, or miraculously. It seems to refer not only
to the plagues of Egypt, but to some other epidemic disease,
which they remembered to have prevailed among the Egyptians,
and by which God had chastised them for their national sins.
Diseases are God's servants, which go where he sends them, and
do what he bids them.
Verse 19. The temptations - The trials and exercises of thy faith and
obedience to my commands.
Verse 24. No man shall stand - This promise is made upon condition of
their performance of their duty, which they neglecting, justly lose
the benefit of it.
Verse 25. The silver or gold - Wherewith the idols are covered or
adorned, nor consequently any other of their ornaments. This he
commands to shew his utter detestation of idolatry, and to cut off
all occasions of it.
Chapter 7:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 Numbers Joshua
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