Deuteronomy 7:11-24

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

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:12-26

Here, I. The caution against idolatry is repeated, and against communion with idolaters: ?Thou shalt consume the people, and not serve their gods.? Deut. 7:16. We are in danger of having fellowship with the works of darkness if we take pleasure in fellowship with those that do those works. Here is also a repetition of the charge to destroy the images, Deut. 7:25, 26. The idols which the heathen had worshipped were an abomination to God, and therefore must be so to them: all that truly love God... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:11

Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments ,.... The laws, moral, ceremonial, and judicial, urged thereunto both by promises and threatenings, in hopes of reward, and through fear of punishment: which I command thee this day, to do them ; in the name of the Lord, and by his authority; by virtue of which he made a new declaration of them to put them in mind of them in order to observe them. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:12

Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep and do them ,.... Attentively listen to the declaration made of them, and be careful to observe them: that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers ; to bring them into the land of Canaan, and continue them in it; yea, to send the Messiah to them, and bring him the salvation of Israel out of Zion; see Luke 1:68 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:13

And he will love thee ,.... As he has done, and rest in his love, and give further instances and proofs of it: and bless thee, and multiply thee ; that is bless thee with a multiplication of offspring, which was what was often promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; that their seed should be as the stars of heaven, the dust of the earth, and the sand of the sea: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb ; not only give strength to conceive, but carry on the pregnancy, preserve the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:14

Thou shalt be blessed above all people ,.... Even with temporal blessings, besides those of a religious kind; they having the oracles of God, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises, Romans 3:1 , there shall not be male or female barren among you ; which to be was reckoned a reproach, and the contrary a blessing, Luke 1:25 Psalm 128:3 . or among your cattle ; the Targum of Jonathan is, nor thy beasts barren of wool, and milk, and lambs. read more

John Gill

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

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