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Deuteronomy 7:2 KJV
Deuteronomy · chapter 7 · verse 2
And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:Deuteronomy 7:2 · King James Version
Deuteronomy 7:2 in context
1When 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;
2And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
3Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
4For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- covenantbᵉrîytha compactH1285 →
- delivernâthanto give, used with greatest latitude of applicationH5414 →
- utterlychâramto secludeH2763 →
- beforepânîymthe faceH6440 →
- smitenâkâhto strikeH5221 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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Here is, I. A very strict caution against all friendship and fellowship with idols and idolaters. Those that are taken into communion with God must have no communication with the unfruitful works of darkness. These things they are charged about for the preventing of this snare now before them. 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-11