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Text -- Deuteronomy 7:7-26 (NET)
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The Basis of Israel’s Election
7:7 It is not because you were more numerous than all the other peoples that the Lord favored and chose you– for in fact you were the least numerous of all peoples .
7:8 Rather it is because of his love for you and his faithfulness to the promise he solemnly vowed to your ancestors that the Lord brought you out with great power , redeeming you from the place of slavery , from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt .
7:9 So realize that the Lord your God is the true God , the faithful God who keeps covenant faithfully with those who love him and keep his commandments , to a thousand generations ,
7:10 but who pays back those who hate him as they deserve and destroys them. He will not ignore those who hate him but will repay them as they deserve !
7:11 So keep the commandments , statutes , and ordinances that I today am commanding you to do .
Promises of Good for Covenant Obedience
7:12 If you obey these ordinances and are careful to do them, the Lord your God will faithfully keep covenant with you as he promised your ancestors .
7:13 He will love and bless you, and make you numerous . He will bless you with many children , with the produce of your soil , your grain , your new wine , your oil , the offspring of your oxen , and the young of your flocks in the land which he promised your ancestors to give you.
7:14 You will be blessed beyond all peoples ; there will be no barrenness among you or your livestock .
7:15 The Lord will protect you from all sickness , and you will not experience any of the terrible diseases that you knew in Egypt ; instead he will inflict them on all those who hate you.
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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Idolatry |
Moses |
Judgments |
God |
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Blessing |
War |
Faith |
SONG OF SONGS |
Hornet |
Children |
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DEUTERONOMY |
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Canaanites |
Pity |
INCREASE |
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