Deuteronomy 7

A Chosen People

1 "When the LORD your God brings you into the land which you go to a possess, and has cast out many b nations before you, c the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you, 2 "and when the LORD your God delivers d them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. e You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. 3 f "Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. 4 "For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; g so the anger of the LORD will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly. 5 "But thus you shall deal with them: you shall h destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their 1 wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.

6 "For you are a 2 holy people to the LORD your God; i the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. 7 "The LORD did not set His j love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were k the least of all peoples; 8 "but l because the LORD loves you, and because He would keep m the oath which He swore to your fathers, n the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of 3 bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 "Therefore know that the LORD your God, He is God, o the faithful God p who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments; 10 "and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not 4 be q slack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face. 11 "Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.

12 "Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers. 13 "And He will r love you and bless you and 5 multiply you; s He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He 6 swore to your fathers to give you. 14 "You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female t barren among you or among your livestock. 15 "And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the u terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you. 16 "Also you shall 7 destroy all the peoples whom the LORD your God delivers over to you; your eye shall have no pity on them; nor shall you serve their gods, for that will v be a snare to you.

17 "If you should say in your heart, 'These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?' - 18 "you shall not be afraid of them, but you shall w remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt: 19 x "the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs and the wonders, the mighty hand and the outstretched arm, by which the LORD your God brought you out. So shall the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. 20 y "Moreover the LORD your God will send the hornet among them until those who are left, who hide themselves from you, are destroyed. 21 "You shall not be terrified of them; for the LORD your God, the great and awesome God, is among you. 22 "And the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you z little by little; you will be unable to 8 destroy them at once, lest the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. 23 "But the LORD your God will deliver them over to you, and will inflict defeat upon them until they are destroyed. 24 "And a He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name from under heaven; b no one shall be able to stand 9 against you until you have destroyed them. 25 "You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you shall not c covet 10 the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it; for it is an abomination to the LORD your God. 26 "Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be doomed to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, d for it is an 11 accursed thing.

  1. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 6:10
    So it shall be, when the LORD your God brings you into the land of which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you large and beautiful cities which you did not build.
  2. Cross References
    Genesis 15:19 - 21
    The Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites.
  3. Cross References
    Exodus 33:2
    And I will send My Angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
  4. Cross References
    Numbers 31:17
    Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man intimately.
    Deuteronomy 20:16 - 18
    But of the cities of these peoples which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, you shall let nothing that breathes remain alive.
  5. Cross References
    Exodus 23:32
    You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
    Exodus 23:33
    "They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."
    Joshua 2:14
    So the men answered her, "Our lives for yours, if none of you tell this business of ours. And it shall be, when the LORD has given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.
  6. Cross References
    Exodus 34:15
    Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you and you eat of his sacrifice.
    Exodus 34:16
    And you take of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.
    Joshua 23:12
    Or else, if indeed you do go back, and cling to the remnant of these nations - these that remain among you - and make marriages with them, and go in to them and they to you.
    1 Kings 11:2
    From the nations of whom the LORD had said to the children of Israel, "You shall not intermarry with them, nor they with you. Surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods." Solomon clung to these in love.
    Ezra 9:2
    "For they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed is mixed with the peoples of those lands. Indeed, the hand of the leaders and rulers has been foremost in this trespass."
  7. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 6:15
    (for the LORD your God is a jealous God among you), lest the anger of the LORD your God be aroused against you and destroy you from the face of the earth.
  8. Cross References
    Exodus 23:24
    You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works; but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars.
    Exodus 34:13
    But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images
    Deuteronomy 12:3
    And you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place.
  9. Cross References
    Exodus 19:5
    Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.
    Exodus 19:6
    'And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."
    Amos 3:2
    "You only have I known of all the families of the earth; Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities."
    1 Peter 2:9
    But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
  10. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:37
    And because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them; and He brought you out of Egypt with His Presence, with His mighty power.
  11. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 10:22
    Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.
  12. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 10:15
    The LORD delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day.
  13. Cross References
    Luke 1:55
    As He spoke to our fathers, To Abraham and to his seed forever.
    Luke 1:72
    To perform the mercy promised to our fathers And to remember His holy covenant.
    Luke 1:73
    The oath which He swore to our father Abraham:
  14. Cross References
    Exodus 13:3
    And Moses said to the people: "Remember this day in which you went out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out of this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.
    Exodus 13:14
    So it shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, 'What is this?' that you shall say to him, 'By strength of hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
  15. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 1:9
    God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
    2 Thessalonians 3:3
    But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.
    2 Timothy 2:13
    If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.
  16. Cross References
    Exodus 20:6
    But showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
    Deuteronomy 5:10
    But showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
    Nehemiah 1:5
    And I said: "I pray, LORD God of heaven, O great and awesome God, You who keep Your covenant and mercy with those who love You and observe Your commandments.
    Daniel 9:4
    And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made confession, and said, "O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments.
  17. Cross References
    2 Peter 3:9
    The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
    2 Peter 3:10
    But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
  18. Cross References
    Psalms 146:8
    The LORD opens the eyes of the blind; The LORD raises those who are bowed down; The LORD loves the righteous.
    Proverbs 15:9
    The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, But He loves him who follows righteousness.
    John 14:21
    "He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him."
  19. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:4
    Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.
  20. Cross References
    Exodus 23:26
    No one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.
  21. Cross References
    Exodus 9:14
    For at this time I will send all My plagues to your very heart, and on your servants and on your people, that you may know that there is none like Me in all the earth.
    Exodus 15:26
    And said, "If you diligently heed the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.
    Deuteronomy 28:27
    The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors, with the scab, and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.
    Deuteronomy 28:60
    Moreover He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you.
  22. Cross References
    Exodus 23:33
    "They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."
    Judges 8:27
    Then Gideon made it into an ephod and set it up in his city, Ophrah. And all Israel played the harlot with it there. It became a snare to Gideon and to his house.
    Psalms 106:36
    They served their idols, Which became a snare to them.
  23. Cross References
    Psalms 105:5
    Remember His marvelous works which He has done, His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth.
  24. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:34
    Or did God ever try to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
    Deuteronomy 29:3
    The great trials which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders.
  25. Cross References
    Exodus 23:28
    And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you.
    Joshua 24:12
    I sent the hornet before you which drove them out from before you, also the two kings of the Amorites, but not with your sword or with your bow.
  26. Cross References
    Exodus 23:29
    I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.
    Exodus 23:30
    Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased, and you inherit the land.
  27. Cross References
    Joshua 10:24
    So it was, when they brought out those kings to Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the captains of the men of war who went with him, "Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings." And they drew near and put their feet on their necks.
    Joshua 10:42
    All these kings and their land Joshua took at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.
    Joshua 12:1 - 24
    These are the kings of the land whom the children of Israel defeated, and whose land they possessed on the other side of the Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the River Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the eastern Jordan plain:
  28. Cross References
    Joshua 23:9
    For the LORD has driven out from before you great and strong nations; but as for you, no one has been able to stand against you to this day.
  29. Cross References
    Proverbs 23:6
    Do not eat the bread of a miser, Nor desire his delicacies.
  30. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 13:17
    So none of the accursed things shall remain in your hand, that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of His anger and show you mercy, have compassion on you and multiply you, just as He swore to your fathers.
New King James Version (NKJV) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.
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