Deuteronomy 7:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? ”

• Deuteronomy 7:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Deuteronomy 7:6-24 gives reasons why Israel ought to serve Yahweh. Deuteronomy 7:9 . Render, know therefore that Yahweh thy God is the ( i.e. the true, see Deuteronomy 4:35 ) God, the faith...

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• Deuteronomy 7:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  how... ? Figure of speech Erotesis (App-6).

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• Deuteronomy 7:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  17 If thou shalt say in thine heart. Since it was a matter of great difficulty to destroy such a multitude of men, and despair itself would drive them to madness, so that it would be frivolo...

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• Deuteronomy 7:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

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• Deuteronomy 7:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? No JFB commentary on these verses.

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• Deuteronomy 7:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Practical Exhortations (continued) In this chapter the people are warned against temptations to idolatry and enjoined to avoid contact with their idolatrous neighbours: see on Exodus 23:32-33 ;...

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• Deuteronomy 7:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE BAN Deuteronomy 7:1-26 As in the previous chapter we have had the Mosaic and Deuteronomic statement of the internal and spiritual means of defending the Israelite character and faith from t...

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• Deuteronomy 7:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  What the Lord Does for His People Deuteronomy 7:12-26 The promises to obedience are enlarged upon with touching copiousness. Love, blessing, keeping, peace, multiplication, fruit and health lie...

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• Deuteronomy 7:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Continuing to deal with the responsibilities of the people as they entered the land, Moses insisted upon the absolute necessity for the maintenance of the attitude of separation to God. Stringent ins...

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• Deuteronomy 7:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Here again, as before, Israel is reminded of GOD'S former mercies, as the surest encouragement to the expectation of future favors. Reader! I pray you mark it down in the history of your own life-the...

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• Deuteronomy 7:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  If thou shall say in thine heart ,.... Should have secret thoughts arise in the heart, misgivings of heart, fears and doubts there, which, though not outwardly expressed, might be inwardly retained:...

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• Deuteronomy 7:17 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  ISRAEL SEPARATED TO GOD (vs.1-11) Again the Lord emphasizes the importance of Israel's sanctification from the nations. When they entered the land, God would give them victory over the inhabitant...

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• Deuteronomy 7:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the L ORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fa...

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• Deuteronomy 7:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Deuteronomy 7:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  They Must Thoroughly Cleanse The Land of Both Its Peoples and Its Idolatry, And He Himself Will Be With Them To Enable Them To Do It ( Deuteronomy 7:16-26 ). This reference to their enemies who h...

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• Deuteronomy 7:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES .—Israel is forwarded against the idolatry of the people whose country they were about to enter ( cf . Deuteronomy 6:14 ). The nations were more powerful than Israel, but God would d...

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• Deuteronomy 7:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Deuteronomy 7:3 . Neither make marriages with them. See note on Ezra 10:2 . Deuteronomy 7:5 . And cut down their groves. The patriarchal devotion being performed at first on hills, and in pla...

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• Deuteronomy 7:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh. Encouragement for the Christian warrior To a man about to journey into a strange country nothin...

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• Deuteronomy 7:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION ENTIRE SEPARATION FROM IDOLATROUS NATIONS ENJOINED . Deuteronomy 7:1-5 The Israelites were about to enter on a country occupied by idolaters, and they are commanded n...

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• Deuteronomy 7:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Extermination of the Heathen Nations Enjoined

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• Deuteronomy 7:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 15:9 ; Deuteronomy 18:21 ; Deuteronomy 8:17 ; Isaiah 14:13 ; Isaiah 47:8 ; Isaiah 49:21 ; Jeremiah 13:22 ; Joshua 17:16-18 ; Luke 9:47 ; Numbers 13:32 ; Numbers 33:53

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