The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:4
From following me ; literally , from after me , i . e . from being my servant and worshipper. Suddenly; rather, speedily ( מהֵר , infin; of מָהַר , to be quick, to hasten, used as an adverb). read more
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Spence, H. D. M., etc.
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:5
Cut down their groves ; rather, cut or hew in pieces their asherahs . These were, apparently, wooden pillars of considerable height, which were firmly planted in the ground (comp. 6:25-27 ; Deuteronomy 16:21 )? and were consecrated to the worship of a female deity, the companion of Baal; probably the same as that after-war, is known as Astarte, the Venus of the Syrians (see note on Deuteronomy 16:21 ). read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:5-8
They were not only to have no fellowship with the idolaters, but they were to root out their idolatry, everting their altars and destroying their idols; and this because they were a holy people, graciously chosen of God to be his special possession—a high privilege and honor which they were to be careful not to cast away. read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:6
An holy people ; a people consecrated to God, to be holy as he is holy (cf. Le 11:43-45; Deuteronomy 19:2 ; Deuteronomy 20:1-20 :26; Deuteronomy 21:6 ; Deuteronomy 23:14 ). A special people unto himself ; literally, to be to him for a people of property ( סְגֻלָּה ), a people his own, his peculiar property (cf. Exodus 19:5 ; Deuteronomy 14:2 ; Deuteronomy 26:18 ; and, for the meaning of the word, 1 Chronicles 29:3 , "mine own proper good;" Ecclesiastes 2:8 ,... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:6-8
On the election of rations. We are here introduced to remarkable words touching the election of, or we might say, selection of the Jews. The leading principles of the Divine administration are here set before us. The following points may be noticed:— I. THE JEWS WERE SELECTED NOT ON ACCOUNT OF ANY NATIONAL SUPERIORITY . Moses tells them that, numerically, they were the fewest of all people. It was not numerical strength, nor national advantages of any kind,... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:6-9
Reasons for non-conformity to the world, and for aggression on its evil. I. THE HOLINESS OF OUR CALLING . ( Deuteronomy 7:6 .) The believer stands to God in the relation described in this verse. He is one chosen from the unholy mass to be peculiarly God's property. He belongs to God in body, soul, and spirit. He is a vessel for the Master's use. His every power is to be consecrated. What higher dignity could a human being sustain than that? But the obligations are coextensive... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 7:1-11
See Deuteronomy 6:10 note.Deuteronomy 7:5Their groves - Render, their idols of wood: the reference is to the wooden trunk used as a representation of Ashtaroth; see Deuteronomy 7:13 and Exodus 34:13 note.Deuteronomy 7:7The fewest of all people - God chose for Himself Israel, when as yet but a single family, or rather a single person, Abraham; though there were already numerous nations and powerful kingdoms in the earth. Increase Deuteronomy 1:10; Deuteronomy 10:22 had taken place because of the... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 7:1
Deuteronomy 7:1. Seven nations Ten are mentioned, Genesis 15:19; but this being some hundreds of years after, it is not strange if three of them were either destroyed by foreign or domestic wars, or by cohabitation and marriage united with and swallowed up in the rest. read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 7:2
Deuteronomy 7:2. Thou shalt smite and utterly destroy them That is, in case they continued obstinate in their idolatry, they were to be destroyed, as nations, or bodies politic. But if they forsook their idolatry, and became sincere proselytes to the true religion, they would then be proper objects of forgiveness, as being true penitents. For, says God himself, by Jeremiah, (Jeremiah 7:8,) At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation to destroy it, if that nation turn from their evil,... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:3-4
Marriage in the Lord. This law, forbidding marriages with the ungodly, is one for all time. The apostle revives it in 1 Corinthians 7:39 . That marriage should be only in the Lord is evident— I. FROM THE TRUE IDEA OF MARRIAGE . Two individuals unite their lives, and enter into a fellowship the most intimate possible—to what end? Surely that their natures may be raised to greater perfection, and that they may be better enabled to attain the ends of their existence. This... read more