Deuteronomy 7:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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; ”

• Deuteronomy 7:9 - 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 7:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Know therefore (d) 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; (d) And so put...

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• Deuteronomy 7:9 - 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 7:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  GOD . ' El , the great and mighty God. See App-4. mercy . lovingkindness, or grace. commandments. Hebrew text written singular, but read plural.

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• Deuteronomy 7:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  9. Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God. The verb (220) might have been as properly translated in the future tense; and, if this be preferred, an experimental knowledge, as it is...

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• Deuteronomy 7:9 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 196 A RIGHT IMPROVEMENT OF ELECTING LOVE Deuteronomy 7:6-10 . Thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself abov...

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• Deuteronomy 7:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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;

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• Deuteronomy 7:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 6-11 . The reasons are here given for such cautious avoiding whatever might offend God. For, 1. They were a chosen generation to show forth his praises, and therefore bound to answer the grac...

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• Deuteronomy 7:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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. For thou art an...

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• Deuteronomy 7:9 - 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 7:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (9-11) These verses are a direct comment upon the second commandment. The “thousands of them that love Him” are here expanded into a “thousand generations.” The “hatred,” too, is the same thing denot...

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• Deuteronomy 7:9 - 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 7:9 - 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 7:9 - 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 7:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Precious character indeed, the faithful GOD! on whom I rest all my certain assurances of mercy and salvation in JESUS. Sweet consideration! our GOD abideth faithful; even, saith the apostle, though w...

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• Deuteronomy 7:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Ver. 9 Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God ,.... The only true and living God, and not the idols of the Gentiles, who are false and lifeless ones, and therefore not the proper objects of...

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• Deuteronomy 7:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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; Ver. 9. The faith...

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• Deuteronomy 7:9 - 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 7:9 - 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 7:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The faithful God; true to his word, and constant in performing all his promises.

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• Deuteronomy 7:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Reason For Doing This Is because In Compassion and Mercy He Has Chosen Them To The End That They Are His Holy (Set Apart For Himself) People And Has Set His Love On Them ( Deuteronomy 7:7-11 )....

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• Deuteronomy 7:9 - 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 7:9 - 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 7:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Them that love Him and keep His commandments. Love God, and keep His commandments The love of God, according to the Scripture notion of it, is a duty easy to be comprehended. And the text befor...

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• Deuteronomy 7:9 - 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 7:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Eradication of Idolatry Commanded

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• Deuteronomy 7:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 16:15 ; 1 Corinthians 1:9 ; 1 Corinthians 10:3 ; 1 Corinthians 8:3 ; 1 John 1:9 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:24 ; 2 Corinthians 1:18 ; 2 Thessalonians 3:3 ; 2 Timothy 2:13 ; Daniel 9:4...

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