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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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GOD. ' _El_, the great and mighty God. See App-4.
MERCY. lovingkindness, or grace.
COMMANDMENTS. Hebrew text written singular, but read plural....
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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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_Know therefore_ A frequent formula in D in Sg. and Pl. Deuteronomy
4:39 (+ _and lay it to thine heart_), Deuteronomy 8:5 (A.V. _and thou
shalt consider in thine heart_), Deuteronomy 9:3;...
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A free paraphrase of the Second Commandment....
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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._ 9. _KNOW, THEREFORE, THAT THE LORD THY GOD_— Moses here
reminds them, that as God's choosing them for his peculiar people was
a matter of mere favour, to which they had no more right than any
o...
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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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(9-11) These verses are a direct comment upon the second commandment.
The “thousands of them that love Him” are here expanded into a
“thousand generations.” The “hatred,” too, is the same thing
denote...
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וְ יָ֣דַעְתָּ֔ כִּֽי ־יְהוָ֥ה
אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ ה֣וּא...
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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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Know therefore (d) that the LORD thy God, he [is] God, the faithful
God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep
his commandments to a thousand generations;
(d) And so put d...
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_Strong. Hebrew el, means also God. He requires us to imitate his
perfections as much as we are able. Being faithful, he will comply
with his covenant exactly, and will punish those who neglect it.
(C...
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Precious character indeed, the faithful GOD! on whom I rest all my
certain assurances of mercy and salvation in JESUS. Sweet
consideration! our GOD abideth faithful; even, saith the apostle,
though we...
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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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9._Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God_. The verb (220)
might have been as properly translated in the future tense; and, if
this be preferred, an experimental knowledge, as it is called, i...
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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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Ver. 9 KNOW THEREFORE THAT THE LORD THY GOD, HE IS GOD,.... The only
true and living God, and not the idols of the Gentiles, who are false
and lifeless ones, and therefore not the proper objects of ad...
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Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he [is] God, the faithful God,
which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his
commandments to a thousand generations;
Ver. 9. _The faithfu...
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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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Know, therefore, that the Lord, thy God, He is God, the faithful God,
which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love Him and keep His
commandments to a thousand generations, for He is most eager...
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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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THE FAITHFUL GOD; true to his word, and constant in performing all his
promises....
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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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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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_Them that love Him and keep His commandments._
LOVE GOD, AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS
The love of God, according to the Scripture notion of it, is a duty
easy to be comprehended. And the text before us...
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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 Chronicles 16:15; 1 Corinthians 1:9; 1 Corinthians 10:3; 1
Corinthians 8:3;...