Deuteronomy 7:1
“When the Lord your God will have led you to the land, which you will enter so as to possess it, and when he will have destroyed many nations before you, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations much more numerous than you, and more robust than you,
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Genesis 15:21and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
Exodus 15:7And in the multitude of your glory you have put down your adversaries. You sent out your wrath, which devoured them like stubble.
Exodus 23:32You shall not enter into a pact with them, nor with their gods.
Numbers 13:29But it has very strong occupants, and the cities are great and also walled. We saw the race of Anak there.
Deuteronomy 4:1“And now, O Israel, listen to the precepts and judgments which I am teaching to you, so that, by doing these, you may live, and you may enter and possess the land, which the Lord, the God of your fathers, will give to you.
Deuteronomy 6:1“These are the precepts and ceremonies, as well as the judgments, which the Lord your God has commanded that I teach to you, which you shall do in the land to which you will travel in order 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 →