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Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:1-26

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 deliver them.Deuteronomy 7:2. They must be destroyed, devoted to destruction as accursed, put under the ban. Leviticus 27:28. No covenant must be made, nor alliances formed with them lest their children should be seduced.Deuteronomy 7:4. From following, lit. from behind me (Jehovah) i.e., entice to other... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:1-26

Chapter 7Now 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; you're not to make any covenant with them, nor show any mercy unto them: Neither shall you make any marriages with them. For they will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: and so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and you be destroyed... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 7:1-26

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 destitute of shelter, woods and groves were most desirable retreats for the divine service. Hence Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba. Genesis 21:33. But houses of retirement and wickedness were built by the Israelites in the times of apostasy. The Egyptians and the Greeks were the first, after... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:3

Deu 7:3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. Ver. 3. Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. ] As neither with any other that were idolatots. Ezr 9:1-2 read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:4

Deu 7:4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly. Ver. 4. For they will turn away thy son. ] As the foreign women did Solomon. 1Ki 11:2-4 What is the reason the Pope will not dispense in Spain or Italy, if a Papist marry a Protestant, yet here they will, but in hope to draw more to them? The tyrant Mezentius tied the living bodies of his captives to the dead; but the dead... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:5

Deu 7:5 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. ] Cromwell did notable service here in Henry VIII’s time, by discovering the knavery of Popish priests, and pulling down those images and monuments of idolatry, the rood of grace, the blood of Hales, &c. And in Edward VI’s days, the same day the Popish pictures were publicly burnt at... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Deuteronomy 7:3

Genesis 6:2, Genesis 6:3, Exodus 34:15, Exodus 34:16, Joshua 23:12, Joshua 23:13, Judges 3:6, Judges 3:7, 1 Kings 11:2, Ezra 9:1, Ezra 9:2, Nehemiah 13:23-Daniel :, 2 Corinthians 6:14-Esther : Reciprocal: Genesis 24:3 - that Genesis 34:9 - General Exodus 22:17 - utterly Joshua 6:21 - utterly Joshua 9:7 - how shall Joshua 23:7 - That ye come Judges 14:3 - uncircumcised Judges 21:1 - his daughter Ruth 1:4 - wives 1 Kings 16:31 - took to wife 2 Kings 8:18 - his wife 2 Chronicles 22:3 - his... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Deuteronomy 7:4

so will: Deuteronomy 6:15, Deuteronomy 32:16, Deuteronomy 32:17, Exodus 20:5, Judges 2:11, Judges 2:20, Judges 3:7, Judges 3:8, Judges 10:6, Judges 10:7 Reciprocal: Genesis 6:2 - and they Genesis 24:3 - that Exodus 22:17 - utterly Exodus 34:16 - General Numbers 33:55 - shall be pricks Deuteronomy 13:5 - turn you Deuteronomy 20:18 - General Joshua 22:15 - General Joshua 22:18 - following Judges 3:6 - General 1 Kings 11:2 - Ye shall not go in 1 Kings 11:4 - his wives 1 Kings 11:9 - his... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Deuteronomy 7:5

destroy: Deuteronomy 12:2, Deuteronomy 12:3, Exodus 23:24, Exodus 34:13, 2 Kings 23:6-2 Chronicles : images: Heb. statues, or pillars, Deuteronomy 16:22, Leviticus 26:1 and cut: Judges 6:25, Judges 6:26 burn: Deuteronomy 7:25, Deuteronomy 9:21, Exodus 32:20 Reciprocal: Genesis 35:4 - hid them Deuteronomy 20:18 - General 2 Samuel 5:21 - David 1 Kings 15:13 - destroyed 2 Kings 10:27 - brake down the image 2 Kings 13:6 - and there remained 2 Kings 18:4 - brake 2 Kings 23:14 - he brake 1... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Deuteronomy 7:4

For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.To serve other Gods — That is, there is manifest danger of apostacy and idolatry from such matches. Which reason doth both limit the law to such of these as are unconverted (otherwise Salmon married Rahab, Matthew 1:5) and enlarge it to other idolatrous nations, as appears from1Kings11:2; Ezra 9:2; Nehemiah 13:23. read more

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