Deuteronomy 7:12-8:20 ESV

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 7:1-26

Continuing to deal with the responsibilities of the people as they entered the land, Moses insisted upon the absolute necessity for the maintenance of the attitude of separation to God. Stringent instructions were given in this .matter. They must not compromise with the people of the land. They must not many with them because such alliance would result in corruption of the chosen people and their straying after other gods. Moreover, they were to sweep out all the signs of false religion,... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 7:12-15

Their Reward For Faithfulness And Obedience To His Covenant Will Be Multiplied Blessing (Deuteronomy 7:12-15 ). a It shall come about that because you listen to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the lovingkindness (covenant love) which he swore to your fathers (Deuteronomy 7:12). b And He will love you, and bless you, and multiply you, He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 7:6-24

Deuteronomy 7:6-Jeremiah : gives reasons why Israel ought to serve Yahweh. Deuteronomy 7:9 . Render, “ know therefore that Yahweh thy God is the” ( i.e. the true, see Deuteronomy 4:35) “ God, the faithful God, one who keeps His covenant to show lovingkindness to. them,” etc. Deuteronomy 7:10 . Note the individualism of Dt. (see Deuteronomy 21:1-1 Samuel : *). Deuteronomy 7:13 . corn . . . wine (fresh made wine) and fresh (olive) oil are Yahweh’ s gifts, not those of the Baalim or... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 7:12

i.e. The covenant of mercy or grace, which he out of his own mere grace made with them. A figure called hendiaduo. read more

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

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Deuteronomy 7:12

if: Heb. because, Deuteronomy 28:1, Leviticus 26:3 Lord: Deuteronomy 7:9, Psalms 105:8-2 Samuel :, Micah 7:20, Luke 1:55, Luke 1:72, Luke 1:73 Reciprocal: Exodus 15:26 - If thou Deuteronomy 6:11 - when thou Deuteronomy 8:18 - that he may 2 Samuel 22:23 - judgments 1 Kings 2:4 - That the Lord Proverbs 28:10 - but Jeremiah 11:5 - a land read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Deuteronomy 7:12

Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:The covenant and the mercy — That is, the covenant of mercy, which he out of his own mere grace made with them. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 7:12-15

12-15. Here is the promise of great blessings if the people will keep the commandments of Jehovah. The flocks of thy sheep The Hebrew expression only occurs again in Deuteronomy 28:4; Deuteronomy 28:18; Deuteronomy 28:51. It probably means the ewes of thy flock. Evil diseases of Egypt Comp. Exodus 15:26, and Deuteronomy 28:27. Pliny, in his Natural History, calls Egypt the mother of contagious pestilences. Wagner calls it “a great focus of the diseases of all history.” Natural History... read more