Deuteronomy 7:1

When Yahweh your God brings you into the land that you go to possess, he will drive out many nations before you—the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites—seven nations greater and mightier than you.

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When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, 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 thou;

In Context

2It is Yahweh your God who gives them over to you when you defeat them, and then you must completely destroy them. You will make no covenant with them, and show them no mercy.

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Cross References

Genesis 15:21the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”

Exodus 15:7In great majesty you overthrew those who rose up against you. 1 You sent out your wrath; it consumed them like stubble. 1

Exodus 23:32You must not make a covenant with them or with their gods.

Numbers 13:29The Amalekites live in the Negev. The Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites have their homes in the hill country. The Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan River.”

Deuteronomy 4:1Now, Israel, listen to the laws and the decrees that I am about to teach you, to do them; so that you may live and go in and possess the land that Yahweh, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

Deuteronomy 6:1Now these are the commandments, statutes, and decrees that Yahweh your God has commanded me to teach you, so that you might keep them in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess;

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 →

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