Deuteronomy 7:16-26
1599 Geneva Bible
16 Thou shalt therefore consume all people which the Lord thy God shall give thee: [a]thine eye shall not spare them, neither shalt thou serve their gods, for that shall be thy (A)destruction.
17 If thou say in thine heart, These nations are more than I, how can I cast them out?
18 Thou shalt not fear them, but remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt:
19 The great [b]tentations which thine eyes saw, and the signs and wonders, and the mighty hand and stretched out arm, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out: so shall the Lord thy God do unto all the people, whose face thou fearest.
20 (B)Moreover, the Lord thy God will send [c]hornets among them until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
21 Thou shalt not fear them: for the Lord thy God is among you, a God mighty and dreadful.
22 And the Lord thy God will root out these nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the [d]beasts of the field increase upon thee.
23 But the Lord thy God shall give them before thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be brought to naught.
24 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 hast destroyed them.
25 The graven images of their gods shall ye (C)burn with fire, and (D)covet not the silver and gold, that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou [e]be snared therewith: for it is an abomination before the Lord thy God.
26 Bring not therefore abomination into thine house, lest thou be accursed like it, but utterly abhor it, and count it most abominable: for it is (E)accursed.
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- Deuteronomy 7:16 We ought not to be merciful, where God commandeth severity.
- Deuteronomy 7:19 Or, plagues, or trials, Deut. 29:3; as Exod. 15:25 and Exod. 16:4.
- Deuteronomy 7:20 There is not so small a creature, which I will not arm to fight on thy side against them.
- Deuteronomy 7:22 So that it is your commodity that God accomplish not his promise so soon as you would wish.
- Deuteronomy 7:25 And be enticed to idolatry.
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