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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 7:5

Ye shall destroy their altars.... — This course, if adopted in a conquered territory, would be certain to bring matters to a crisis. The inhabitants must rise in defence of the objects of their worship — a course which would end in their extermination — or they must adopt the worship of Jehovah.

Their groves. — Here the grove itself in which the idol was worshipped, and so in Deuteronomy 16:21. Sometimes the word is used for the image.

Burn their graven images with fire. — David treated the images of the Philistines thus (1 Chronicles 14:12). Compare Isaiah 37:19.

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See also Deuteronomy 7:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    DEUTERONOMY 7. The native races of Canaan are to be exterminated and everything connected with their religion destroyed, lest Israel be seduced by them to idolatry. For the list of nations, see Genesi...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BUT. But rather, or, Verily. DESTROY. break down. Hebrew. _nathaz._ BREAK DOWN. break into fragments. Hebrew. _shabab._ BURN. burn up. GRAVEN IMAGES. sculptures....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The change to the Pl., together with the fact that the _v_. does not direct the destruction of the persons of the heathen (which would have been relevant to the preceding), but only of their altars, e...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 5. _DESTROY THEIR ALTARS—AND CUT DOWN THEIR GROVES_— See Exodus 34:13. It is well known, that nothing was more common among idolaters, than consecrated trees and groves: to cut down those grove...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _BUT THUS SHALL YE DEAL WITH THEM; YE SHALL DESTROY THEIR ALTARS, AND BREAK DOWN THEIR IMAGES, AND CUT DOWN THEIR GROVES, AND BURN THEIR GRAVEN IMAGES WITH FIRE._ Thus shall ye deal with them. It is...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    7:5 Asherahs, (a-22) See Exodus 34:13 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    IMAGES] RV 'pillars,' or obelisks. GROVES] RV 'Asherim': see on Exodus 34:13....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּֽי ־אִם ־כֹּ֤ה תַעֲשׂוּ֙ לָהֶ֔ם מִזְבְּחֹתֵיהֶ֣ם...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    But thus shall ye deal with them; (b) ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. (b) God would have his service pur...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Things. This was to be done with regard to the idols of Chanaan, when it was first conquered, ver. 25. Afterwards David made no scruple in wearing a crown, which had been taken from the spoils of Mel...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Read the pious zeal of Josiah, upon this occasion, 2 Chronicles 34:3....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT THUS SHALL YE DEAL WITH THEM,.... The inhabitants of the land of Canaan: YE SHALL DESTROY THEIR ALTARS; on which they sacrificed to their idols: AND BREAK DOWN THEIR IMAGES; of their gods, and t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire._ Ver. 5. _And break down their images...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Their groves_ Which idolaters planted about the temples and altars of their gods. Hereby God designed to take away whatsoever might bring their idolatry to remembrance, or occasion the reviving of it...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    But thus shall ye deal with them: Ye shall destroy their altars, which were dedicated to the abominations of idolatry, AND BREAK DOWN THEIR IMAGES, the pillars or statues of stone which represented th...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE ERADICATION OF IDOLATRY COMMANDED...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    IMAGES: _ Heb._ statues, or pillars...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Idolaters planted _groves_ about the temples and altars of their gods. Hereby God designed to take away whatsoever might bring their idolatry to remembrance, or occasion the reviving of it....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 7:5 deal H6213 (H8799) destroy H5422 (H8799) altars H4196 down H7665 (H8762) pillars H4676 down...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CHAPTER 7 THEY MUST REMOVE THE CANAANITES FROM THE LAND, HAVING NO TRUCK WITH THEM AND MUST GO FORWARD WITH CONFIDENCE IN THE DELIVERER FROM EGYPT, FOR HE HAS SET HIS LOVE ON THEM AND WILL DO THEM GOO...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 7:5 All the objects used in Canaanite religion are to be totally destroyed so that they will not be a trap for Israel (see v. Deuteronomy 7:16 and note on...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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;...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Kings 23:6; Deuteronomy 12:2; Deuteronomy 12:3; Deuteronomy 16:22;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Their graves — Which idolaters planted about the temples and altars of their Gods. Hereby God designed to take away whatsoever might bring their idolatry to remembrance, or occasion the reviving of it...

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