Deuteronomy 7:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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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;

Ver. 1. And hast cast out many nations.] God did all: "He cast out the heathen before them, and divided them an inheritance by line," &c. Psa 78:55 Hence Josephus calls the commonwealth of Israel Yεοκρατειαν. Sic, Regnum Angliae, Regnum Dei. a

a Polydor. Virgil.

Deuteronomy 7:1

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;