Deuteronomy 7:7-20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:15

And will take away from thee all sickness ,.... Bodily sickness and diseases, prevent the coming of them, or remove them when come: and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt which thou knowest upon thee ; meaning either the plagues that were inflicted upon them to oblige them to let the Israelites go, of which they had perfect knowledge; or else some noxious and nauseous diseases, which were common among, and peculiar to, the Egyptians, particularly what is called the botch of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:16

And thou shall consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee ,.... All the inhabitants of the land of Canaan, which the Lord should deliver into their hands; them they were not to spare, but utterly destroy men, women, and children: thine eye shall have no pity upon them ; See Gill on Deuteronomy 7:2 , neither shall thou serve their gods, for that will be a snare unto thee ; which will bring into utter ruin and destruction; see Exodus 23:33 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:17

If thou shall say in thine heart ,.... Should have secret thoughts arise in the heart, misgivings of heart, fears and doubts there, which, though not outwardly expressed, might be inwardly retained: these nations are more than I ; seven to one, and perhaps anyone of them as powerful as Israel: how can I dispossess them ? of the land they inherit, and take possession of it. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:18

Thou shalt not be afraid of them ,.... Neither on account of their number, nor their strength: but shall well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt ; a people more numerous and potent than the Canaanites, among whom the Lord wrought such wonderful things by his power, which obliged them to let Israel go; and his power was now the same, he could do as great things to the Canaanites as he had to the Egyptians; and as he had delivered them out of the hands of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:19

The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders ,.... The miracles wrought in Egypt; see Deuteronomy 4:34 . and the mighty hand, and stretched out arm, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out ; that is, out of Egypt, which was an instance and proof of his almighty power: so shall the Lord thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid ; not perform the same miraculous operations among them, but exert the same power in the destruction of them,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:20

Moreover, the Lord thy God will send the hornet among them ,.... Not a single one, but several of them, and which may be understood of creatures so called, which resemble wasps, only twice as large, an insect very bold and venomous; see Exodus 23:28 . Aben Ezra interprets it of the leprosy: until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed ; such of the Canaanites who escaped the sword of the Israelites, and hid themselves in holes and caverns of the earth; these... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 7:8

But because the Lord loved you - It was no good in them that induced God to choose them at this time to be his peculiar people: he had his reasons, but these sprang from his infinite goodness. He intended to make a full discovery of his goodness to the world, and this must have a commencement in some particular place, and among some people. He chose that time, and he chose the Jewish people; but not because of their goodness or holiness. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 7:12

The Lord - shall keep unto thee the covenant - So we find their continuance in the state of favor was to depend on their faithfulness to the grace of God. If they should rebel, though God had chosen them through his love, yet he would cast them off in his justice. The elect, we see, may become unfaithful, and so become reprobates. So it happened to 24,000 of them, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness because they had sinned; yet these were of the elect that came out of Egypt. Let him that... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 7:7

Verse 7 7.The Lord did not set his love upon you. He proves it to be of God’s gratuitous favor, that He has exalted them to such high honor, because He had passed over all other nations, and deigned to embrace them alone. For an equal distribution of God’s gifts generally casts obscurity upon them in our eyes; thus the light of the sun, our common food, and other things, which all equally enjoy, either lose their value, or, at any rate, do not obtain their due honor; whilst what is peculiar is... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 7:8

Verse 8 8.Because he would keep the oath. The love of God is here referred back from the children to the fathers; for he addressed the men of his own generation, when he said that they were therefore God’s treasure, because He loved them; now he adds that God had not just begun to love them for the first time, but that He had originally loved their fathers, when He chose to adopt Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But although he more clearly proves that the descendants of Abraham had deserved nothing... read more

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