Deuteronomy 7 - Introduction

QUESTIONS, LESSON SEVEN (Deuteronomy 7:1-26)

1.

To what extent were the Israelites to show mercy to the surrounding nations?

2.

How were these nations greater and mightier than Israel?

3.

What did the Holy Spirit predict would happen if Israel intermarried with foreigners?

4.

What were the pillars of the heathen?

5.

What were the Asherim?

6.

Where did Israel rank with other nations in the population census?

7.

Specifically, what religious items of the heathen nations were to be destroyed?

8.

List two great difficulties of the Holy War.

9.

What was Israel to remember as an encouragement in this war?

10.

What peculiar means did God use to rout the enemy (according to the standard versions)?

11.

Why not cast out the enemies all at once?

12.

What part of the heathen images could be kept by an Israelite? Why?

SUMMARY OF CHAPTER SEVEN

With the seven nations that God shall cast out, 1. they shall make no covenant, 2. nor form any matrimonial alliances, 3; lest they should be enticed into idolatry, 4. All monuments of idolatry to be destroyed, 5. The Israelites are to consider themselves a holy people, 6; and that the Lord had made them such, not for their merits, but for his own mercies, 7, 8. They shall therefore love him, and keep his commandments, 9-11. The great privileges of the obedient, 12-24. All idolatry to be avoided, 25, 26.