7:1 And when the Lord thy God shall bring
thee into the land, into which thou goest to possess it, and shall remove
great nations from before thee, the Chettite, and Gergesite, and Amorite,
and Chananite, and Pherezite, and Evite, and Jebusite, seven nations [more]
numerous and stronger than you,
7:2 and the Lord thy God shall deliver them into thy hands, then thou shalt
smite them: thou shalt utterly destroy them: thou shalt not make a covenant
with them, neither shall ye pity them:
7:3 neither shall ye contract marriages with them: thou shalt not give thy
daughter to his son, and thou shalt not take his daughter to thy son.
7:4 For he will draw away thy son from me, and he will serve other gods; and
the Lord will be very angry with you, and will soon utterly destroy thee.
7:5 But thus shall ye do to them; ye shall destroy their altars, and shall
break down their pillars, and shall cut down their groves, and shall burn
with fire the graven images of their gods.
7:6 For thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God; and the Lord thy God
chose thee to be to him a peculiar people beyond all nations that [are] upon
the face of the earth.
7:7 It as not because ye are more numerous than all [other] nations that the
Lord preferred you, and the Lord made choice of you: for ye are fewer in
number than all [other] nations.
7:8 But because the Lord loved you, and as keeping the oath which he sware
to your fathers, the Lord brought you out with a strong hand, and the Lord
redeemed thee from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharao king of
Egypt.
7:9 Thou shalt know therefore, that the Lord thy God, he [is] God, a
faithful God, who keeps covenant and mercy for them that love him, and for
those that keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
7:10 and who recompenses them that hate him to their face, to destroy them
utterly; and will not be slack with them that hate him: he will recompense
them to their face.
7:11 Thou shalt keep therefore the commands, and the ordinances, and these
judgments, which I command thee this day to do.
7:12 And it shall come to pass when ye shall have heard these ordinances,
and shall have kept and done them, that the Lord thy God shall keep for thee
the covenant and the mercy, which he sware to your fathers.
7:13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; and he will
bless the off-spring of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and
thy wine, and thine oil, the herds of thine oxen, and the flocks of thy
sheep, on the land which the Lord sware to thy fathers to give to thee.
7:14 Thou shalt be blessed beyond all nations; there shall not be among you
an impotent or barren one, or among thy cattle.
7:15 And the Lord thy God shall remove from thee all sickness; and none of
the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou hast seen, and all that thou hast
known, will he lay upon thee; but he will lay them upon all that hate thee.
7:16 And thou shalt eat all the spoils of the nations which the Lord thy God
gives thee; thine eye shall not spare them, and thou shalt not serve their
gods; for this is an offence to thee.
7:17 But if thou shouldest say in thine heart, This nation [is] greater than
I, how shall I be able to destroy them utterly?
7:18 thou shalt not fear them; thou shalt surely remember all that the Lord
thy God did to Pharao and to all the Egyptians:
7:19 the great temptations which thine eyes have seen, those signs and great
wonders, the strong hand, and the high arm; how the Lord thy God brought
thee forth: so the Lord your God will do to all the nations, whom thou
fearest in their presence.
7:20 And the Lord thy God shall send against them the hornets, until they
that are left and they that are hidden from thee be utterly destroyed.
7:21 Thou shalt not be wounded before them, because the Lord thy God in the
midst of thee [is] a great and powerful God.
7:22 And the Lord thy God shall consume these nations before thee by little
and little: thou shalt not be able to consume them speedily, lest the land
become desert, and the wild beasts of the field be multiplied against thee.
7:23 And the Lord thy God shall deliver them into thy hands, and thou shalt
destroy them with a great destruction, until ye shall have utterly destroyed
them.
7:24 And he shall deliver their kings into your hands, and ye shall destroy
their name from that place; none shall stand up in opposition before thee,
until thou shalt have utterly destroyed them.
7:25 Ye shall burn with fire the graven images of their gods: thou shalt not
covet [their] silver, neither shalt thou take to thyself gold from them,
lest thou shouldest offend thereby, because it is an abomination to the Lord
thy God.
7:26 And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thine house, so shouldest
thou be an accursed thing like it; thou shalt utterly hate it, and
altogether abominate it, because it is an accursed thing. |
7:1 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;
7:2 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 show mercy unto them:
7:3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not
give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
7:4 For 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.
7:5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and
break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven
images with fire.
7:6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath
chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are
upon the face of the earth.
7:7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were
more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
7:8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which
he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty
hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh
king of Egypt.
7:9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which
keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments
to a thousand generations;
7:10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will
not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
7:11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the
judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
7:12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and
keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant
and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
7:13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also
bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy
wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep,
in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
7:14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or
female barren among you, or among your cattle.
7:15 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none
of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay
them upon all them that hate thee.
7:16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall
deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou
serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
7:17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how
can I dispossess them?
7:18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the LORD
thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
7:19 The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the
wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD
thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people
of whom thou art afraid.
7:20 Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they
that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
7:21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among
you, a mighty God and terrible.
7:22 And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little
and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the
field increase upon thee.
7:23 But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy
them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
7:24 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt
destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand
before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
7:25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not
desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou
be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
7:26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be
a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt
utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing. |