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Text -- Deuteronomy 7:16-26 (NET)
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Exhortation to Destroy Canaanite Paganism
7:16 You must destroy all the people whom the Lord your God is about to deliver over to you; you must not pity them or worship their gods , for that will be a snare to you.
7:17 If you think , “These nations are more numerous than I– how can I dispossess them?”
7:18 you must not fear them . You must carefully recall what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt ,
7:19 the great judgments you saw , the signs and wonders , the strength and power by which he brought you out – thus the Lord your God will do to all the people you fear .
7:20 Furthermore , the Lord your God will release hornets among them until the very last ones who hide from you perish .
7:21 You must not tremble in their presence , for the Lord your God , who is present among you, is a great and awesome God .
7:22 He , the God who leads you, will expel the nations little by little . You will not be allowed to destroy them all at once lest the wild animals overrun you.
7:23 The Lord your God will give them over to you; he will throw them into a great panic until they are destroyed .
7:24 He will hand over their kings to you and you will erase their very names from memory . Nobody will be able to resist you until you destroy them.
7:25 You must burn the images of their gods , but do not covet the silver and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent to the Lord your God .
7:26 You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is an object of divine wrath .
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Hornet |
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Iconoclasm |
DEUTERONOMY |
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TEMPLES, ROBBERS OF |
PUNISHMENTS |
TERRIBLE, TERROR |
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NET Notes: Deu 7:18 Heb “recalling, you must recall.” The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute before the finite verb for emphasis. Cf. KJV, ASV “sh...
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NET Notes: Deu 7:19 Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.
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NET Notes: Deu 7:23 Heb “he will confuse them (with) great confusion.” The verb used here means “shake, stir up” (see Ruth 1:19; 1 Sam 4:5; 1 Kgs ...
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NET Notes: Deu 7:24 Heb “you will destroy their name from under heaven” (cf. KJV); NRSV “blot out their name from under heaven.”
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NET Notes: Deu 7:25 The Hebrew word תּוֹעֵבָה (to’evah, “abhorrent; detestable”) describes anythin...
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