Deuteronomy 7:7-9 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:1-11

Here is, I. A very strict caution against all friendship and fellowship with idols and idolaters. Those that are taken into communion with God must have no communication with the unfruitful works of darkness. These things they are charged about for the preventing of this snare now before them. 1. They must show them no mercy, Deut. 7:1, 2. Bloody work is here appointed them, and yet it is God's work, and good work, and in its time and place needful, acceptable, and honourable. (1.) God here... read more

John Gill

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

The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you ,.... He had done both, and the one as the effect and evidence of the other; he loved them, and therefore he chose them; but neither of them: because ye were more in number than any people ; not for the quantity of them, nor even for the quality of them: for ye were the fewest of all people ; fewer than the Egyptians, from whence they came, and than the Canaanites they were going to drive out and inherit their land, Deuteronomy... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:8

But because the Lord loved you ,.... With an unmerited love; he loved them, because he loved them; that is, because he would love them; his love was not owing to any goodness in them, or done by them, or any love in them to him, but to his own good will and pleasure: and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers ; the promise he had made, confirmed by an oath: hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand ; out of the land of Egypt: and redeemed you... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:9

The only true and living God, and not the idols of the Gentiles, who are false and lifeless ones, and therefore not the proper objects of adoration: the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy ; as appeared by fulfilling the promise made to their fathers, in bringing them out of Egypt, and now them to the borders of the land of Canaan given them for an inheritance: with them that love him, and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations ; see Exodus 20:6 which are not the... 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

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

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 7:9

Verse 9 9.Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God. The verb (220) might have been as properly translated in the future tense; and, if this be preferred, an experimental knowledge, as it is called, is referred to, as if he had said that God would practically manifest how faithful a rewarder He is of His servants. But if the other reading is rather approved, Moses exhorts the people to be assured that God sits in heaven as the Judge of men, so that they may be both alarmed by the fear of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:1-11

A holy people's policy of self-preservation. We have in this paragraph a glance onward to the time when Israel's march through the wilderness would be completed, and when the people to whom God had given the land should be confronted with those who had it previously in possession. In our Homily on it let us observe— I. WE HAVE HERE POINTED OUT THE CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH ISRAEL WOULD TAKE POSSESSION OF THE LAND . 1. There was a great covenant promise... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:1-11

Israel's iconoclastic mission. Material idolatry is the great peril of humanity. To what corruption and misery such idolatry leads, we in Christianized England can scarcely conceive. What the history of our world would have been if that hotbed of Canaanite corruption had continued, it would be difficult to imagine. Many methods were open to God by which he might arrest that plague of vice; out of them all, his wisdom selected this , viz. to employ the Hebrews as his ministers of... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:1-11

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:9

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

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

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

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 7:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:1-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:1-11

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