Deuteronomy 7:1
When LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land where thou go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before thee, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and
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Genesis 15:21and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.
Exodus 15:7And in the greatness of thine excellency thou overthrow those who rise up against thee. Thou send forth thy wrath, it consumes them as stubble.
Exodus 23:32Thou shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
Numbers 13:29Amalek dwells in the land of the South. And the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the hill-country. And the Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan.
Deuteronomy 4:1And now, O Israel, hearken to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which LORD, the God of your fathers, gives you.
Deuteronomy 6:1Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land where ye go over to possess it,
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 7:1
Moses in this chapter exhorts Israel, I. In general, to keep God's commandments, ver. 11, 12 . II. In particular, and in order to that, to keep themselves pure from all communion with idolaters. 1. They must utterly destroy the seven devoted nations, and not spare them, or make leagues with them, ver. 1, 2 , 16 , 24 . 2. They must by no means marry with the remainders of them, ver. 3, 4 . 3. They must deface and consume their altars and images, and not so much as take the silver and gold of them to their own use,… Read the whole commentary →