Deuteronomy 7:16

consume Lit. eat up, a common figure, JE, Numbers 22:4.

shall deliver See on Deuteronomy 7:2.

The rest of the v. Steuern. takes as an addition, because the theme of Deuteronomy 7:12-16 is what Jehovah does; and this, a warning for Israel, breaks the course of the thought. But this is to impute too fine a logic to such a discursive writer.

thine eye shall not pity them Deuteronomy 13:8; Deuteronomy 19:13; Deuteronomy 19:21; Deuteronomy 25:12, all Sg.; elsewhere in Hex. only in the edit. passage, Genesis 45:20, and with a different object, but common in Ezek., of God's eye on the people, and also found in Jer. and other post-deuteronomic writings. Cp. Deuteronomy 7:2, thou shalt not pity them, with another vb.

neither shalt thou serve their gods … snare unto thee Similarly in edit. Exodus 23:33; Exodus 34:12. See note on former.