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See Deuteronomy 6:10 note.
Deuteronomy 7:5
THEIR GROVES - Render, their idols of wood: the reference is to the
wooden trunk used as a representation of Ashtaroth; see...
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3. THE POSSESSION OF THE LAND AND THEIR SEPARATION
CHAPTER 7
_ 1. The command to destroy the Canaanites (Deuteronomy 7:1)_
2. The command to destroy their idolatry (Deuteronomy 7:5)
3. The promise...
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DEUTERONOMY 7:6 gives reasons why Israel ought to serve Yahweh.
Deuteronomy 7:9. Render, know therefore that Yahweh thy God is the
(_i.e._ the true, see Deuteronomy 4:35) God, the faithful God, one w
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LOVE. affection. Hebrew. _hashak,_. love which joins one to what is
loved. to set one's love upon....
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The reasons for the previous commands to destroy the peoples of the
land, and to abstain from traffic with them, leading as this would to
participation in their worship of other gods. Israel are for J...
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_set his love upon you_ The radical meaning of the verb is to fix or
bind, and it is used of a man's falling in love with a woman,
Deuteronomy 21:11; Genesis 34:8; cp. the Eng. use for this of
-attach...
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Change to the Pl. address. Because of this and because the choice of
Israel by Jehovah is not mentioned in other Pl. passages, and also
because these verses are not necessary to the connection, they a...
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DISCOURSE: 196
A RIGHT IMPROVEMENT OF ELECTING LOVE
Deuteronomy 7:6. Thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the
Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself
above all peop...
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_VER._ 6-11. The reasons are here given for such cautious avoiding
whatever might offend God. For, 1. They were a chosen generation to
show forth his praises, and therefore bound to answer the graciou...
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_VER._ 7, 8. _THE LORD DID NOT SET HIS LOVE UPON YOU,_ &C.— To
preserve them from pride and a conceit of their own greatness, Moses
here advises them to remember, that it was not their numbers, their...
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LESSON SEVEN DEUTERONOMY 7:1-26
6. DEFENDING THE FAITH: NECESSITY OF THE HOLY WAR (Deuteronomy 7:1-26)
a. THE REASONS FOR THE HOLY WAR (Deuteronomy 7:1-15)
When Jehovah thy God s
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_FOR THOU ART AN HOLY PEOPLE UNTO THE LORD THY GOD: THE LORD THY GOD
HATH CHOSEN THEE TO BE A SPECIAL PEOPLE UNTO HIMSELF, ABOVE ALL PEOPLE
THAT ARE UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH._
For thou art an holy...
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PRACTICAL EXHORTATIONS (CONTINUED)
In this chapter the people are warned against temptations to idolatry
and enjoined to avoid contact with their idolatrous neighbours: see on
Exodus 23:32; Numbers 2...
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DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE
LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD
DEUTERONOMY
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 7
V1 ‘The *LORD your God will bring you into the country that you
will possess. He will force o...
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THE LORD DID NOT... CHOOSE YOU, BECAUSE YE WERE MORE. — The danger
lest Israel’s peculiar relation to the Most High should beget
national pride is so obvious, that Moses takes special pains to
counter...
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THE BAN
Deuteronomy 7:1
As in the previous chapter we have had the Mosaic and Deuteronomic
statement of the internal and spiritual means of defending the
Israelite character and faith from the tempta...
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NO COMPROMISE WITH IDOLATRY
Deuteronomy 6:20; Deuteronomy 7:1
The great Lawgiver had His eye constantly on the coming generation. It
is good when the children are so arrested by our religious life, t...
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Continuing to deal with the responsibilities of the people as they
entered the land, Moses insisted upon the absolute necessity for the
maintenance of the attitude of separation to God. Stringent
inst...
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_Joined. Hebrew, "has set his love upon you." God is the most
disinterested lover. (Haydock)_...
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I hardly know a passage in the Old Testament more sweetly expressive
of the freeness and sovereignty of grace; and more encouraging at the
same time to the mind of every poor enquiring sinner. Dear JE...
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In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be
called an abstract typical system. That is, we see in them a number of
institutions laid down by Jehovah, the pattern of which wa...
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7._The Lord did not set his love upon you. _He proves it to be of
God’s gratuitous favor, that He has exalted them to such high honor,
because He had passed over all other nations, and deigned to embr...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 5, 6, AND 7.
In chapter 5 Moses reminds them of the ten commandments given in
Horeb; and it is to be remarked, that the deliverance out of Egypt
(not the rest...
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THE LORD DID NOT SET HIS LOVE UPON YOU, NOR CHOOSE YOU,.... He had
done both, and the one as the effect and evidence of the other; he
loved them, and therefore he chose them; but neither of them,
BEC...
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_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, name...
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1 All communion with the Nations is forbidden,
4 for feare of Idolatrie,
6 for the holinesse of the people,
9 for the nature of God in his Mercie and Iustice,
17 for the assurednesse of victorie w...
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The Lord did not set His love upon you, turn to you, cling to you in
love, NOR CHOOSE YOU BECAUSE YE WERE MORE IN NUMBER THAN ANY PEOPLE,
more numerous and more powerful than other nations; FOR YE WER...
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THE ERADICATION OF IDOLATRY COMMANDED...
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ISRAEL SEPARATED TO GOD
(vs.1-11)
Again the Lord emphasizes the importance of Israel's sanctification
from the nations. When they entered the land, God would give them
victory over the inhabitants, a...
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1-11 Here is a strict caution against all friendship and fellowship
with idols and idolaters. Those who are in communion with God, must
have no communication with the unfruitful works of darkness. Li...
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To wit, at that time when God first declared his love to you, and
choice of you for his peculiar people, which was done to Abraham. For
Abraham had but one son concerned in this choice and covenant, t...
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When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou
goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee,...
seven nations greater and mightier than thou. And when the Lord th...
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Deuteronomy 7:7 LORD H3068 love H2836 (H8804) choose H977 (H8799) more
H7230 people H5971 least H4592 peoples...
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THE REASON FOR DOING THIS IS BECAUSE IN COMPASSION AND MERCY HE HAS
CHOSEN THEM TO THE END THAT THEY ARE HIS HOLY (SET APART FOR HIMSELF)
PEOPLE AND HAS SET HIS LOVE ON THEM (DEUTERONOMY 7:7).
In this...
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CONTENTS: Command to be separate people and to destroy opposing
nations.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses.
CONCLUSION: Those who are taken into communion with God must have no
communication with the unfruitfu...
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Deuteronomy 7:3. _Neither make marriages with them._ See note on Ezra
10:2.
Deuteronomy 7:5. _And cut down their groves._ The patriarchal devotion
being performed at first on hills, and in places dest...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—Israel is forwarded against the idolatry of the
people whose country they were about to enter (_cf_. Deuteronomy
6:14). The nations were more powerful than Israel, but God would
delive...
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EXPOSITION
ENTIRE SEPARATION FROM IDOLATROUS NATIONS ENJOINED.
DEUTERONOMY 7:1
The Israelites were about to enter on a country occupied by idolaters,
and they are commanded not to spare them or to a...
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Now in chapter seven,
When God brings you into the land and cast out these enemies that are
bigger and stronger than you are; And he delivers them from before
you; and smites them, and destroys them;...
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1 John 3:1; 1 John 4:10; Deuteronomy 10:22; Isaiah 51:2; Luke 12:32;...
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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, namel...