John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:4
For they will turn away thy son from following me ,.... From the pure worship of God, his word, statutes, and ordinances: that they may serve other gods ; worship their idols; that is, the daughters of Heathens, married to the sons of Israelites, would entice them from the worship of the true God to idolatry; so the Targum of Jonathan; as Solomon's wives drew him aside: or "he will turn away thy son" F4 יסיר "faciet recedere": Pagninus, Montanus; so Junius and Tremellius, Piscator,... read more
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