Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25 NIV

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:1-26

The promised land (7:1-8:20)Israel’s responsibility was to destroy the people of Canaan along with everything connected with their religion, so that nothing would remain in the land that might corrupt God’s people (7:1-5). Israel’s favoured place as God’s chosen people was not an excuse for them to do as they liked, but a reason for them to avoid corruption and be holy. If they were disobedient, they would surely be punished (6-11). But if they were obedient, they would enjoy the blessings of... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Deuteronomy 7:12

"And it shall come to pass, because ye hearken to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that Jehovah thy God will keep with thee the covenant and the lovingkindness which he sware unto thy fathers: and he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; he will also bless the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy ground, thy grain and thy new wine and thine oil, the increase of thy cattle and the young of thy flock, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. Thou shalt be... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 7:12-15

Ver. 12-15. Wherefore—if ye hearken to these judgments, &c.— See the notes on chap. 28: Respecting the diseases of Egypt, Mr. Locke observes, that they were noisome ulcers, which were called Egyptia, and with which the priests of Isis used to threaten the contemners of her worship. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Deuteronomy 7:1-26

3. Examples of the application of the principles chs. 7-11"These clearly are not laws or commandments as such but primarily series of parenetic homilies in which Moses exhorted the people to certain courses of action in light of the upcoming conquest and occupation of Canaan. Within these sections, however, are specific and explicit injunctions based upon the Decalogue and anticipatory of further elaboration in the large section of detailed stipulations that follows (Deuteronomy 12:1 to... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Deuteronomy 7:12-26

Obedience would bring blessing. Moses enumerated the blessings for remaining completely devoted to God and refusing to practice idolatry (Deuteronomy 7:13-16). Grain, wine, and oil (Deuteronomy 7:13) represent the three principle food products of Canaan. [Note: S. R. Driver, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Deuteronomy, p. 103.] The Israelites could obtain encouragement in battle by remembering God’s past faithfulness (Deuteronomy 7:17-21). God told the Israelites He would drive out the... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 7:1-26

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 23:32-33; Numbers 25:16-18.1. On the tribes inhabiting Canaan see on Numbers 13:21. 5. Images] RV ’pillars,’ or obelisks. Groves] RV ’Asherim’: see on Exodus 34:13. 6. Special people] RV ’peculiar people’: see on Exodus 19:5.13. On the promise of material prosperity as the reward of obedience, see on Exodus... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Deuteronomy 7:12

(12) At this point begins the third of the Hebrew divisions of the book.If ye hearken.—Literally, as a return for your hearkening. (See Note on Deuteronomy 8:19.) read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Deuteronomy 7:1-26

Growing Great Ideas Deuteronomy 7:9 How to begin to teach the supreme ideas of time and space, and God and heaven, and eternity; that is the subject. We are familiar with these great words, so familiar indeed with them that we think nothing about them. We thus ruin ourselves by reading religious books and going to religious services. Nothing so ruinous as going to church, if we do not go in the right spirit and with adequate intelligence of the meaning of the act. I know nothing so really bad... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:1-26

THE BANDeuteronomy 7:1-26As 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 temptations which the conquest in Canaan would bring with it, in this we have strenuous provision made against the same evil by external means. The mind first was to be fortified against the temptation to fall away: then the external pressure from the example of the peoples they were to conquer was to be... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Deuteronomy 7:1-26

3. The Possession of the Land and Their Separation CHAPTER 7 1. The command to destroy the Canaanites (Deuteronomy 7:1-4 ) 2. The command to destroy their idolatry (Deuteronomy 7:5-11 ) 3. The promise of blessing and help (Deuteronomy 7:12-26 ) Seven nations are mentioned as occupying the land, which God gave to Israel. These nations were steeped in the most awful licentiousness and practised the vilest abominations. There are different reasons to believe that Satan possessed them in a... read more

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:1-26

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Deuteronomy 7:12

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 7:12-15

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Deuteronomy 7:1-26

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Deuteronomy 7:12-26

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 7:1-26

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Deuteronomy 7:12

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Deuteronomy 7:1-26

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:1-26

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Deuteronomy 7:1-26

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