Deuteronomy 7:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

• Deuteronomy 7:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  See Deuteronomy 6:10 note. Deuteronomy 7:5 Their groves - Render, their idols of wood: the reference is to the wooden trunk used as a representation of Ashtaroth; see Deuteronomy 7:13 a...

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• Deuteronomy 7:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Deuteronomy 7. The native races of Canaan are to be exterminated and everything connected with their religion destroyed, lest Israel be seduced by them to idolatry. For the list of nations, see Ge...

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• Deuteronomy 7:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Me. The very words of Jehovah introduced. they. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "he". destroy . cut off. Hebrew. shamad.

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• Deuteronomy 7:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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.

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• Deuteronomy 7:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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. No JFB commentary on these verses.

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• Deuteronomy 7:4 - 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 7:4 - 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 7:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  No Compromise with Idolatry Deuteronomy 6:20-25 ; Deuteronomy 7:1-11 The great Lawgiver had His eye constantly on the coming generation. It is good when the children are so arrested by our rel...

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• Deuteronomy 7:4 - 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 7:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I pause over these verses to remark, how awfully these truths of GOD are sometimes verified, in the carnal alliances which believers unhappily make with the ungodly. Be not unequally yoked, saith the...

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• Deuteronomy 7:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For they will turn away thy son from following me ,.... From the pure worship of God, his word, statutes, and ordinances: that they may serve other gods ; worship their idols; that is, the daughte...

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• Deuteronomy 7:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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. Ver. 4. For they will turn away...

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• Deuteronomy 7:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  To serve other gods That is, there is manifest danger of apostacy and idolatry from such matches. Which reason doth both limit the prohibition to such of these as were unconverted, (otherwise Salmo...

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• Deuteronomy 7:4 - 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 7:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  A Caution Against Idolatry. B. C. 1451.       1 When the L ORD thy God shall bring thee into...

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• Deuteronomy 7:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  i.e. There is manifest danger of apostacy and idolatry from such matches; which reason doth both limit the law to such of these as were unconverted, otherwise Salmon married Rahab, Matthew 1:5 , a...

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• Deuteronomy 7:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Chapter 7 They Must Remove The Canaanites From The Land, Having No Truck With Them And Must Go Forward With Confidence In The Deliverer From Egypt, For He Has Set His Love On Them And Will Do Them G...

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• Deuteronomy 7:4 - 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 7:4 - 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 7:4 - 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 7:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Eradication of Idolatry Commanded

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• Deuteronomy 7:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 32:16 ; Deuteronomy 32:17 ; Deuteronomy 6:15 ; Exodus 20:5 ; Judges 10:6 ; Judges 10:7 ; Judges 2:11 ; Judges 2:20 ; Judges 3:7 ; Judges 3:8

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• Deuteronomy 7:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  To serve other Gods — That is, there is manifest danger of apostacy and idolatry from such matches. Which reason doth both limit the law to such of these as are unconverted (otherwise Salmon marrie...

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