Deuteronomy 7:6-11 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 7:6

For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God ,.... Not sanctified in a spiritual sense, or having principles of grace and holiness in them, from whence holy actions sprang, at least not all of them; but they were separated from all other people in the world to the pure worship and service of God in an external manner, and therefore were to avoid all idolatry, and every appearance of it: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself above all people that are... 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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:10

And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them ,.... Openly, publicly, and at once, they not being able to make any resistance. Onkelos interprets it in their lifetime, and so Jarchi which agrees with the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem: "or to his face"; F6 אל פניו "in faciem ejus", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Vatablus, Fagius; so Ainsworth. the face of God; that is, he will punish them that hate him to his face, who are audacious, bold, impudent sinners;... 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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 7:6

Thou art a holy people - And therefore should have no connection with the workers of iniquity. A special people - סגלה segullah , - Septuagint, λαον περιουσιον , - a peculiar people, a private property. The words as they stand in the Septuagint are quoted by the apostle, 1 Peter 2:9 . 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 7:6

Verse 6 6.For thou art a holy people. He explains more distinctly what we have lately seen respecting God’s gratuitous love; for the comparison of the fewness of the people with the whole world and all nations, illustrates in no trifling degree the greatness of God’s grace; and this subject is considerably enlarged upon. Almost the same expressions will very soon be repeated, and also in the Song of Moses; but there by way of reproof, whilst here it is directed to a different object, as is... read more

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:6

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 7:10

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 7:6

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

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 7:6

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