Deuteronomy 7:1
On the tribes inhabiting Canaan see on Numbers 13:21.... [ Continue Reading ]
On the tribes inhabiting Canaan see on Numbers 13:21.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 25:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
IMAGES] RV 'pillars,' or obelisks. GROVES] RV 'Asherim': see on Exodus 34:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
Special people] RV 'peculiar people': see on Exodus 19:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
On the promise of material prosperity as the reward of obedience, see on Exodus 20:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
TEMPTATIONS] 'provings' or trials, the afflictions that test and reveal character: see Deuteronomy 8:2, and cp. James 1:2; James 1:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HORNET] see on Exodus 23:28.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOR TAKE _it_ UNTO THEE] Achan did so and brought trouble upon himself and Israel: see Joshua 7.... [ Continue Reading ]
ABOMINATION] i.e. an idol, as in Deuteronomy 16:22. A CURSED THING] RV 'a devoted thing,' a thing laid under the ban of extermination. The verb from the same root is rendered UTTERLY DESTROY in Deuteronomy 7:2 : see on Leviticus 27:28.... [ Continue Reading ]