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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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MIGHTY. great.
TERRIBLE. to be feared....
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_Thou shalt not be affrighted_ This, combined with the verb _be
afraid_(Deuteronomy 7:18), is found in Pl. passages.
_in the midst of thee_ Deuteronomy 6:15.
_great God and … terrible_ Cp. D
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b. DIFFICULTIES OF THE HOLY WAR (Deuteronomy 7:17-26)
17 If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are more than I; how
can I dispossess them? 18 thou shalt not be afraid of them: thou shalt
well...
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_THOU SHALT NOT BE AFFRIGHTED AT THEM: FOR THE LORD THY GOD IS AMONG
YOU, A MIGHTY GOD AND TERRIBLE._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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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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לֹ֥א תַעֲרֹ֖ץ מִ פְּנֵיהֶ֑ם כִּֽי
־יְהוָ֤ה אֱ
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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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WHAT THE LORD DOES FOR HIS PEOPLE
Deuteronomy 7:12
The promises to obedience are enlarged upon with touching copiousness.
Love, blessing, keeping, peace, multiplication, fruit and health lie
along th...
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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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_Fear. Septuagint, "be wounded." In the war with the Madianites, not
one was killed, (Numbers xxxi. 49,) as Josephus ([Antiquities?] iii.
2) informs us, was also the case when king Amalec and his peop...
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Do not overlook the frequency of the expression, neither the vast and
infinite importance of it; for it is the foundation of every other
comfort, wherein JEHOVAH calls himself by that distinguishing
c...
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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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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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THOU SHALL NOT BE AFFRIGHTED AT THEM,.... At their numbers, nor at
their gigantic stature:
FOR THE LORD THY GOD IS AMONG YOU: in the tabernacle, in the holy of
holies, which was in the midst of them,...
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Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God [is] among
you, a mighty God and terrible.
Ver. 21. _For the Lord thy God is amongst you._] And how many do you
reckon him for? as Antigonus...
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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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Thou shalt not be affrighted at them, filled with the terror of little
faith; FOR THE LORD, THY GOD, IS AMONG YOU, A MIGHTY GOD AND TERRIBLE,
whose judgments made Him an object of dread among all nati...
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THE EXTERMINATION OF THE HEATHEN NATIONS ENJOINED...
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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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12-26 We are in danger of having fellowship with the works of
darkness if we take pleasure in fellowship with those who do such
works. Whatever brings us into a snare, brings us under a curse. Let
us...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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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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THEY MUST THOROUGHLY CLEANSE THE LAND OF BOTH ITS PEOPLES AND ITS
IDOLATRY, AND HE HIMSELF WILL BE WITH THEM TO ENABLE THEM TO DO IT
(DEUTERONOMY 7:16).
This reference to their enemies who hate them l...
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Deuteronomy 7:21
I. The complaint has been made often that the qualities which
Christians are especially encouraged to cultivate are not manliness
and courage; that, so far as the Christian ideal is s...
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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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_Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the Lord thy God is among
you, a mighty God and terrible._
COURAGE AND HUMANITY
I. The complaint has been made often that the qualities which
Christians are...
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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 Corinthians 14:25; 1 Samuel 4:8; 2 Chronicles 32:8; Deuteronomy
10:17;...