He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you. You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock. Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and he will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you. You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you. Your eye shall not pity them. You shall not serve their gods; for that would be a snare to you. If you shall say in your heart, “These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?” you shall not be afraid of them. You shall remember well what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt: the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out. So shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you. You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is among you, a great and awesome God. Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you. But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they are destroyed. He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under the sky. No one will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.
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When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you—the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite—seven nations greater and mightier than you; and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them. You shall not make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son. For that would turn away your sons from following me, that they may serve other gods. So Yahweh’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly. But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their engraved images with fire. For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth. Yahweh didn’t set his love on you nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples; but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations, and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him. He will repay him to his face. You shall therefore keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances which I command you today, to do them. It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers. He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you. You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock. Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and he will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you. You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you. Your eye shall not pity them. You shall not serve their gods; for that would be a snare to you. If you shall say in your heart, “These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?” you shall not be afraid of them. You shall remember well what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt: the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out. So shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you. You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is among you, a great and awesome God. Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you. But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they are destroyed. He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under the sky. No one will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them. You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God. You shall not bring an abomination into your house and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it. You shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
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He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.
You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.
Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and he will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you.
You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you. Your eye shall not pity them. You shall not serve their gods; for that would be a snare to you.
If you shall say in your heart, “These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?”
you shall not be afraid of them. You shall remember well what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:
the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out. So shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.
You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is among you, a great and awesome God.
Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.
But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they are destroyed.
He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under the sky. No one will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.
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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.
Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
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.
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.
If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
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.
Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
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.
But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
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.
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and He will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; He will also bless the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy land, thy corn and thy wine and thine oil, the increase of thy kine and the young of thy flock, in the land which He swore unto thy fathers to give thee.
Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness; and He will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee, but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
And thou shalt consume all the peoples that the LORD thy God shall deliver unto thee; thine eye shall not pity them; neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
If thou shalt say in thy heart: 'These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?'
thou shalt not be afraid of them; thou shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt:
the great trials which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out; so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the peoples of whom thou art afraid.
Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and they that hide themselves, perish from before thee.
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for the LORD thy God is in the midst of thee, a God great and awful.
And the LORD thy God will cast out those nations before thee by little and little; thou mayest not consume them quickly, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
But the LORD thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and shall discomfit them with a great discomfiture, until they be destroyed.
And He shall deliver their kings into thy hand, and thou shalt make their name to perish from under heaven; there shall no man be able to stand against thee, until thou have destroyed them.
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- Deuteronomy 28:4 (v14) You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and…
- Deuteronomy 28:11 (vv13–14) Yahweh will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in…
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- Psalms 127:3 (v14) Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
- John 14:21 (v13) One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love…
- Leviticus 26:3-4 (v15) “ ‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall…
- Leviticus 26:9 (v14) “ ‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.
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- Deuteronomy 4:34 (v19) Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand,…
- Deuteronomy 7:2 (v16) and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant…
- Deuteronomy 13:8 (v16) you shall not consent to him nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him;
- Deuteronomy 19:13 (v16) Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel that it may go well with you.
- Deuteronomy 19:21 (v16) Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
- Deuteronomy 25:12 (v16) then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.
- Joshua 10:8 (v24) Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t fear them, for I have delivered them into your hands. Not a man of them will stand before you.”
- Joshua 23:9 (v24) “For Yahweh has driven great and strong nations out from before you. But as for you, no man has stood before you to this day.
- 1 Corinthians 15:33 (v16) Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
- Joshua 3:10 (vv19, 21) Joshua said, “By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, the Hittite, the…
- Exodus 34:12-16 (v16) Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare among you; but you shall…
- Deuteronomy 10:17 (v21) For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take…
- Deuteronomy 28:3-5 (v13) You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field. You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your…
- Deuteronomy 28:60 (v15) He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cling to you.
- Deuteronomy 33:29 (v14) You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will…
- Joshua 1:5 (v24) No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor…
- Joshua 10:42 (v24) Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
- Joshua 24:12 (v20) I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your…
- Nehemiah 1:5 (v21) and said, “I beg you, Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him…
- Nehemiah 9:32 (v21) Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem…
- Psalms 105:5 (v18) Remember his marvelous works that he has done: his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
- Psalms 106:36 (v16) They served their idols, which became a snare to them.
- John 15:10 (v13) If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.
- Exodus 9:11 (v15) The magicians couldn’t stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.
- Exodus 23:25 (v13) You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.
- Exodus 23:28-30 (v20) I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you. I will not drive them…
- Numbers 33:55 (v16) “But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be like pricks in your…
- Deuteronomy 9:14 (v24) Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater…
- Deuteronomy 11:25 (v24) No man will be able to stand before you. Yahweh your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you tread on,…
- Deuteronomy 28:27 (v15) Yahweh will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.
- Deuteronomy 31:6 (v18) Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor…
- Judges 2:3 (v16) Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’…
- Judges 3:6 (v16) They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.
- Nehemiah 9:10-11 (v19) and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land; for you knew that they…
- Psalms 147:19-20 (v14) He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel. He has not done this for just any nation. They don’t know his…
- Jeremiah 21:7 (v16) Afterward,” says Yahweh, “I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants, and the people, even those who are left in this city from…
- John 16:27 (v13) for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.
- Numbers 13:32 (v17) They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, “The land, through which we have…
- Numbers 33:53 (v17) You shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; for I have given the land to you to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 1:29 (v18) Then I said to you, “Don’t be terrified. Don’t be afraid of them.
- Joshua 10:24-25 (v24) When they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went…
- Judges 2:12 (v16) They abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the…
- Nehemiah 4:14 (v21) I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them! Remember the Lord,…
- Job 42:12 (v13) So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of…
- Psalms 77:11 (v18) I will remember Yah’s deeds; for I will remember your wonders of old.
- Psalms 115:15 (v14) Blessed are you by Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.
- Proverbs 10:22 (v13) Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.
- Isaiah 54:17 (v24) No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the…
- Jeremiah 32:20-21 (v19) who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day, both in Israel and among other men; and made yourself a name, as it…
- Malachi 3:10-11 (v13) Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will…
- Matthew 6:33 (v13) But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
- Romans 8:37 (v24) No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
- Exodus 17:14 (v24) Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory…
- Deuteronomy 11:2-4 (v19) Know this day—for I don’t speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh your God, his…
- Deuteronomy 12:30-31 (v16) be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them after they are destroyed from before you, and that you not inquire after their gods,…
- Deuteronomy 25:19 (v24) Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives…
- Deuteronomy 29:3 (v19) the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.
- Deuteronomy 29:20 (v24) Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this…
- Joshua 12:1-6 (v24) Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise,…
- Joshua 23:13-16 (v16) know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap…
- Psalms 9:5 (v24) You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
- Psalms 46:5 (v21) God is within her. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.
- Psalms 144:12-15 (v13) Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace. Our barns are full, filled with all…
- Proverbs 10:7 (v24) The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.
- Isaiah 8:9-10 (v21) Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for…
- Isaiah 51:9-10 (v18) Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in…
- Jeremiah 10:11 (v24) “You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth, and from under the…
- Ezekiel 20:6-9 (v19) in that day I swore to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and…
- Zephaniah 1:4 (v24) I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place:…
- 1 Corinthians 15:57 (v24) But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Exodus 7:1-14 (v18) Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet. You shall speak all that I…
- Numbers 9:20 (v21) Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of Yahweh they remained encamped, and according to…
- Numbers 14:9 (v21) Only don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them,…
- Numbers 14:14 (v21) They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are among this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to…
- Numbers 14:42 (v21) Don’t go up, for Yahweh isn’t among you; that way you won’t be struck down before your enemies.
- Numbers 16:3 (v21) They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the…
- Numbers 23:21 (v21) He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among…
- Deuteronomy 2:15 (v23) Moreover Yahweh’s hand was against them, to destroy them from the middle of the camp, until they were consumed.
- Deuteronomy 3:6 (v18) We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.
- Deuteronomy 7:7 (v13) Yahweh didn’t set his love on you nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples;
- Deuteronomy 8:17 (v17) and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”
- Deuteronomy 8:20 (v23) As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you shall perish, because you wouldn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.
- Deuteronomy 9:3 (v23) Know therefore today that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them and he will bring them…
- Deuteronomy 15:9 (v17) Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil…
- Deuteronomy 18:21 (v17) You may say in your heart, “How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?”
- Deuteronomy 25:8 (v21) Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. If he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her,”
- Joshua 15:63 (v22) As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah couldn’t drive them out; but the Jebusites live with the children…
- Joshua 17:16-18 (v17) The children of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us. All the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv16, 19, 20, 22 We ought not to be merciful, where God commandeth…
We ought not to be merciful, where God commandeth severity.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 24 Deu 7:13 And he will love thee, and bless…
Deu 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.
Ver. 13. And he will love thee.] So he did before, {Deu 7:8} but so he will continue to do. See a like expression in 1Jn 5:13, "These things write I unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God."
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24 He will love thee; he will continue to love…
He will love thee; he will continue to love thee, and to manifest his love to thee, he will not repent of his love to thee.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv13–24 And he will love thee,.... As he has done,…
And he will love thee,.... As he has done, and rest in his love, and give further instances and proofs of it:
and bless thee, and multiply thee; that is bless thee with a multiplication of offspring, which was what was often promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; that their seed should be as the stars of heaven, the dust of the earth, and the sand of the sea:
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he will also bless the fruit of thy womb; not only give strength to conceive, but carry on the pregnancy, preserve the foetus, and prevent miscarrying:
and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil; which were the principal produce of it:
the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep: their larger and lesser cattle, oxen and sheep: in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee; the land of Canaan, given in promise, and that established by an oath.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv13, 15, 19, 24 He will love thee - He will continue to…
He will love thee - He will continue to love thee, and to manifest his love to thee.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v22 Verse 22. Put out those nations - by little…
Verse 22. Put out those nations - by little and little] The Israelites were not as yet sufficiently numerous to fill the whole land occupied by the seven nations mentioned De 7:1. And as wild and ferocious animals might be expected to multiply where either there are no inhabitants, or the place is but thinly peopled, therefore God tells them that, though at present, by force of arms, they might be able to expel them, it would be impolitic so to do, lest the beasts of the field should multiply upon them.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv15, 18, 22, 24 Deu 7:15. The diseases of Egypt — Such as…
Deu 7:15. The diseases of Egypt — Such as the Egyptians were infected with, either commonly, or miraculously. It seems to refer not only to the plagues of Egypt, but to some other epidemic diseases, which they remembered to have prevailed among the Egyptians, and by which God had chastised them for their national sins. The leprosy, and other cutaneous distempers, were frequent in Egypt. The Scriptures also mention the botch of Egypt, as a disease common in that country, Deu 28:27. Diseases are God’s servants, which go where he sends them, and do what he bids them.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv13, 15 Flocks of thy sheep - Render it instead: “the…
Flocks of thy sheep - Render it instead: “the ewes of thy sheep.” The phrase is unique to Deuteronomy. The Hebrew word for “ewes” is the plural form of Ashtoreth, the well-known name of the “goddess of the Zidonians” 1Ki 11:5. This goddess, called by the Classical writers “Astarte,” and identified with “Venus,” represented the fruitfulness of nature.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22 Womb. He will grant thee many children. (Menochius) ---…
Womb. He will grant thee many children. (Menochius) --- This was esteemed a very great blessing, at a time when they might hope to give birth to the Messias. (Calmet)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv15, 20, 22 the evil diseases of Egypt--(See Exo 15:26). Besides those…
the evil diseases of Egypt--(See Exo 15:26). Besides those with which Pharaoh and his subjects were visited, Egypt has always been dreadfully scourged with diseases. The testimony of Moses is confirmed by the reports of many modern writers, who tell us that, notwithstanding its equal temperature and sereneness, that country has some indigenous maladies which are very malignant, such as ophthalmia, dysentery, smallpox, and the plague.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv17, 20 17. How can I dispossess them — The people…
17. How can I dispossess them — The people might again become faint-hearted as they had been years before on the return of the spies. They might ask, How is it possible for us to overcome the seven nations of the land? To encourage them they are once more reminded of what Jehovah did for them in their deliverance from Egypt. The same mighty power would aid them in dispossessing and destroying the nations with whom they are soon to wage war.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv13–24 13. love … bless … and multiply thee] Cp.…
13. love … bless … and multiply thee] Cp. Gen_22:17 (E?), Gen_26:24 (J), bless and multiply; note the characteristic addition love by D. The blessings which follow are material; similarly but varied in Deu_28:4; Deu_28:11; Deu_28:18; Deu_28:51, Deu_30:9, all Sg. Note the interesting differences in Hosea’s similar lists: bread, water, wool, flax, oil, drink, corn, wine, oil (Hos_2:5; Hos_2:8 f., Hos_2:15; Hos_2:22). Hosea, writing for the N. kingdom, gives flax, which D omits; all the rest are characteristic of Judah. Hosea’s treatment of the subject is more spiritual; he gives the moral blessings of the relation of Jehovah and Israel in greater, the material in less, detail than D.
fruit of thy body] womb, as in A.V.; Gen_30:2 (E).
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corn … wine … oil] Deu_11:14, Deu_12:17, Deu_14:23, Deu_28:51. The terms used denote these products in a less manufactured slate. Wine is tîrôsh not yain, corn dagan not ḥiṭṭim, oil yiṣhar not shemen. Tîrôsh, though not entirely unfermented or harmless (Hos_4:11), was nevertheless a much fresher extract of the grape than yain, it is new wine or must; dagan is corn which has been threshed out (Num_18:27); and yiṣhar is fresh oil (abb. from Driver in loco and on pp. xx f. of his 3rd ed.).
the increase of thy kine] Deu_28:4; Deu_28:18; Deu_28:51 : what drops from or is cast by, an animal; Exo_13:12 (J) that cometh of a beast. Nowhere else. Kine, rather cattle, the noun is masc.
the young of thy flock] Lit. the ‘Ashtoreths. ‘A phrase like this, which has descended from religion into ordinary life, and is preserved among the monotheistic Hebrews, is very old evidence for the association of Astarte with the sheep.’ (W. R. Smith, Rel. of the Semites, 458.)
in the land, etc.] See Deu_6:10 : after sware, Sam. and LXX read Jehovah.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24 (13) The flocks.—The word here employed for flocks is…
(13) The flocks.—The word here employed for flocks is peculiar to Deuteronomy in this sense. It occurs in Deu_28:4; Deu_28:18; Deu_28:51. It is in form identical with Ashtaroth, and signifies “increase,” or progeny.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22, 24 This favor would take effect in a blessing on…
This favor would take effect in a blessing on the fruit of the womb, the produce of the field, and the increase of their flocks and herds. (Exo_23:25-27) Thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. These comprise the fruitful products of the soil, and in their combination express general fertility and abundance. By corn (ndi) is undoubtedly to be understood the cereal products generally used for food. It may be doubted if tirosh (cwOrti), properly means wine. The word is often rendered in the Authorized Version by new wine, and this is the meaning generally given in the lexicons. As, however, it is almost constantly joined with corn and oil, the immediate products of the soil at least as unchanged by any process or manufacture it is rather to be regarded as designating ripe grapes than wine. That, moreover, which was to be gathered, (Deu_11:14) which might be tithed , (Deu_12:17 Deu_14:23) which might be described as fruit, (2Ch_31:5) as being in the cluster, (Isa_65:8) and as capable of being dried up or parched, (Joe_1:10 and trodden, Mic_7:15) could not be a fluid like fermented nine. As the grape juice, however, was that from which wine was elicited, tirosh is sometimes used tropically for wine. (Isa_62:8; Hos_4:11) Just as corn is used for bread (Lam_2:12; Hos_7:14) The oil here mentioned, and elsewhere joined with dagan and tirosh, is the pure fresh olive oil (rh; xyi, from rhx; to shine), obtained by pressure from the berries of the olive, and used for food as well as for other purposes by the Jews. (see notes on Deu_8:8) Flocks of thy sheep. The Hebrew is very peculiar here; the same expression occurs only in this book. (Deu_28:4, Deu_28:18, Deu_28:51) Literally rendered, it is the Astartes (Ashtaroth) of thy sheep. Kimchi says it means "the females of the sheep" (axh twbqn), and this Gesenius adopts, rendering the phrase by "ewes." Astarte ("Ash-toreth, plu. "Ashtaroth) was the Phoenician Venus, and it is supposed that the females of the flock were called Astartes orVenuses, as propagating the flock. There is, however, another way of explaining the word as here used, by referring it to a root ashar (rv;), signifying to be multiplied, to be rich; whence the name given to the females as the multipliers of the flock, without any reference to Astarte.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain On vv16, 17, 20, 21, 22 Thou shalt consume all the people.
Deu_7:16
Thou shalt consume all the people.
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The destruction of the Canaanites
I. The destruction of the Canaanites was in conformity with the ordinary procedure of God in the moral government of the world. If He choose, in punishing sinners, to visit at one time with a flood of waters, at another with fire from heaven, at another with a deadly epidemic, at another with the scourge of war, who shall dare to question the propriety of His choice in the weapons of destruction?
II. The destruction of the Canaanites was in punishment of sin and as such was just towards themselves. The vilest practices were rife among the people. Their very religion was a system of sorcery, sensuality, and depravity. The traces of ancient Syrian worship exhibit the vilest features of pagan idolatry. Their very gods were demons (Psa_106:37). Human sacrifices were offered at their shrines. The grossest abominations were practised in their orgies. If such, then, was the light, what would the darkness be? In other words, if this was the religion of the country, what would the vices of the people be?
III. The destruction of the Canaanites was a spiritual safeguard to the Israelites. We are tempted to ask whether it was well that the Israelites should be made the executioners of Gods wrath upon their brother man. Would they not be tempted to lose sight of their subordination to Gods purpose, and to take up the cause with feelings of proper fanaticism? Again, would not the part to which they were called tend to foster in them cruelty and recklessness of human life? On the contrary, we find that the snare of the Israelites lay in the opposite direction, and that they were ever more ready to spare than to slay. No token appears of any tendency to rapacity or violence having been impressed upon the national mind, while the salutary lessons that were thus taught them are apparent. In no way could the Israelites have been so forcibly convinced of the hatefulness of idolatry and impurity as when they themselves were made Gods ministers of vengeance against the crying evils. They were thus made witnesses against themselves should they ever adopt like abominations.
IV. The destruction of the Canaanites was necessary for the moral preservation of the world. Clearly it was an act of mercy to the little children of the Canaanites, who were cut off before they knew between good and evil. To the Israelites the extirpation of these nations was an act of mercy. Even crippled and curtailed as the Canaanites were, their influence for evil was too strong; but had they remained in larger bodies, and especially had the women been spared, piety would soon have become unknown among the people of God. But if the destruction of the Canaanites was an act of mercy to Israel, and necessary for their spiritual safely, it follows that it was not less a mercy to the whole world, and necessary for the preservation of the spiritual life of the entire family of mankind. The Church of the present day is but the continuation of the Church of the wilderness. Had that been destroyed, the materials of which the Saviour at His coming built the Church of the New Testament would not have been in existence. The impediments in the way of the Gospel would have been tenfold. To the present day the early ruin of the faith of Gods people which would have resulted from the general toleration of the Canaanites would have borne its bitter fruits.
V. The destruction of the Canaanites has a deep symbolical and practical lesson for us all. God changes not; the same principles direct His dealings now as then. The flesh must be mortified and subdued. See Jesus, our Joshua, stretches forth the spear. He commands the conflict; onward, then, and conquer. (G. W. Butler, M. A.)
The Christian failure and its reasons
Though the Israelites have passed out of Egypt and beyond the Red Sea and through the wilderness, they have not passed beyond the domain of struggle and duty; they must go on to possess the land. In its southeastern border dwell the Moabites; north of them are the Amorites, strongly intrenched; above them the Hittites; on the west side, beyond the Jordan, are the Anakim; above these, a mighty nation, the Canaanites; near them the Perizzites, etc.
I. The thing to be done. Too much is our Christianity over-anxious about its beginnings and too careless about its subsequent growth and reach. We are all the time seeking just to get people out of Egypt, we are all the time too unconcerned as to whether these people go on to conquer Canaan for the Lord. Having come to Jesus, the reign of Jesus is to be extended inwardly over the entire soul, outwardly over the entire life. Canaan reached was not Canaan conquered. The converted man is not yet a sanctified man. Evil pride, vanity, jealousy, covetousness, passionateness, discontent, bad habits, etc.
Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites enough are yet resident in even the converted soul.
II. The force by which this conquest is to be accomplished. And thou shalt consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee. The soul and God--these are the forces of conflict.
III. Some reasons for the Christian failure.
1. Ceasing of battle. After a while some of the Israelites stopped struggling against the aliens.
2. Fear. These Israelites would not struggle against certain of the aliens, because they had chariots of iron. So some bad habit frightens a Christian from struggle.
3. Success of a sort. And it came to pass when Israel was strong they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out. Many a man, professedly Christian, dares not attempt to be the Christian he knows he ought to be because, successful in worldly affairs, his worldly interests will not let him. So he salves his conscience by putting his questionable gain under tribute; gives it, or a portion of it, in charity, etc.
IV. Result. Will be a snare unto thee. Was their failure not a snare? Call to mind the history of the Israelites, the destruction of the ten tribes. The only proof of a real Christianity is a continually advancing self-conquest. (Homiletic Review.)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv14, 16, 17, 20, 23 General Information:
General Information:
Moses continues to tell the people of Israel Yahweh's words as if the Israelites are one person. (See: Forms of You)
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You will be blessed more than all other peoples
This can be stated in active form. AT: "I will bless you more than I bless any other people" (See: Active or Passive)
there will not be a childless male or a barren female among you or among your cattle
Moses uses a negative statement to emphasize that they all will be able to have children. This may be stated in a positive form. AT: "All of you will be able to have children and your cattle will be able to reproduce" (See: Litotes)
among you ... your cattle
The words "you" and "your" are plural here. (See: Forms of You)
take away from you all sickness
"make sure that you do not become ill" or "keep you completely healthy"
none of the evil diseases ... will he put on you, but he will put them on all those who hate you
Moses speaks as if disease were a heavy object that Yahweh would put on top of people. AT: "he will not make you sick with any of the evil diseases ... but he will make your enemies sick with them" (See: Metaphor)
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bless
people group
barren
Yahweh
evil
Egypt
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv15, 19, 20, 21, 24 7:15 The terrible diseases . . . in Egypt…
7:15 The terrible diseases . . . in Egypt were perhaps illnesses related to the plagues (e.g., Exod 9:9) or other serious diseases that regularly afflicted the Egyptians.
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