Deuteronomy:7:1-9:6

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:1 @ When the Lorde thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possesse it, and shall roote out many nations before thee: the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hiuites, and the Iebusites, seuen nations greater and mightier then thou,

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:2 @ And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them (note:)Into thy power.(:note) before thee; thou shalt smite them, [and] utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:3 @ Neither shalt thou make marriages with them, neither giue thy daughter vnto his sonne, nor take his daughter vnto thy sonne.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:4 @ For they wil cause thy sonne to turne away from me, and to serue other gods: then will the wrath of the Lord waxe hote against you and destroy thee suddenly.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:5 @ But thus shall ye deal with them; (note:)God would have his service pure without idolatrous ceremonies and superstitions. (Deu_12:3).(:note) ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:6 @ For thou art an holy people vnto the Lord thy God, the Lorde thy God hath chosen thee, to be a precious people vnto himselfe, aboue all people that are vpon the earth.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:7 @ The Lord did not set his loue vpon you, nor chose you, because ye were mo in number then any people: for ye were the fewest of all people:

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:8 @ But because the LORD (note:)Freely, finding no cause in you more than in others so to do.(:note) loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:9 @ Know therefore (note:)And so put difference between him and idols.(:note) 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;

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:10 @ And repayeth (note:)Meaning revealed, or in this life.(:note) them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:11 @ Keepe thou therefore the commaundements, and the ordinances, and the lawes, which I commaund thee this day to doe them.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:12 @ Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the (note:)This covenant is grounded in his free grace: therefore in recompensing their obedience, he respects his mercy and not their merits.(:note) mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:13 @ And he wil loue thee, and blesse thee, and multiplie thee: he will also blesse the fruite of thy wombe, and the fruite of thy land, thy corne and thy wine, and thine oyle and the increase of thy kine, and the flockes of thy sheepe in the land, which he sware vnto thy fathers to giue thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:14 @ Thou shalt be blessed aboue all people: there shall be neither male nor female barren among you, nor among your cattell.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:15 @ Moreouer, the Lorde will take away from thee all infirmities, and will put none of the euill diseases of Egypt (which thou knowest) vpon thee, but wil send them vpon all that hate thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:16 @ And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; (note:)We should not be merciful when God commands severity.(:note) thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that [will be] a snare unto thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:17 @ If thou say in thine heart, These nations are moe then I, how can I cast them out?

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:18 @ Thou shalt not feare them, but remember what the Lord thy God did vnto Pharaoh, and vnto all Egypt:

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:19 @ The great tentations which thine eyes sawe, and the signes and wonders, and the mighty hand and stretched out arme, whereby the Lorde thy God brought thee out: so shall the Lord thy God do vnto all ye people, whose face thou fearest.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:20 @ Moreover the LORD thy God will send the (note:)There is not a creature so small, that I will not arm it to fight on your side against them.(:note) hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:21 @ Thou shalt not feare them: for the Lorde thy God is among you, a God mightie & dreadful.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:22 @ And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the (note:)It is to your advantage that God does not accomplish his promise as soon as you would wish.(:note) beasts of the field increase upon thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:23 @ But the Lord thy God shall giue them before thee, and shall destroy them with a mightie destruction, vntill they be brought to naught.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:24 @ And he shall deliuer their Kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from vnder heauen: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, vntill thou hast destroyed them.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:25 @ The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold [that is] on them, nor take [it] unto thee, lest thou (note:)And be enticed to idolatry.(:note) be snared therein: for it [is] an abomination to the LORD thy God.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:26 @ Bring not therefore abomination into thine house, lest, thou be accursed like it, but vtterly abhorre it, and count it most abominable: for it is accursed.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:1 @ All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe (note:)Showing that it is not enough to hear the word, unless we express it by the example of our lives.(:note) to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:2 @ And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, [and] to (note:)Which is declared in afflictions, either by patience, or by grudging against God's visitation.(:note) prove thee, to know what [was] in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:3 @ And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by (note:)Man does not live by meat only, but by the power of God, who gives it strength to nourish us.(:note) bread only, but by every [word] that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:4 @ Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot (note:)As those that go barefoot.(:note) swell, these forty years.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:5 @ Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, [so] the LORD thy God (note:)So that his affliction are signs of his fatherly love toward us.(:note) chasteneth thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:6 @ Therefore shalt thou keepe the commaundements of the Lorde thy God, that thou mayest walke in his wayes, and feare him.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:7 @ For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land in the which are riuers of water and fountaines, and depthes that spring out of valleis and mountaines:

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:8 @ A land of wheate and barley, and of vineyards, and figtrees, and pomegranates: a land of oyle oliue and hony:

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:9 @ A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any [thing] in it; a land (note:)Where there are mines of metal.(:note) whose stones [are] iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:10 @ When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt (note:)To receive God's benefits and not be thankful, is to despise God in them.(:note) bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:11 @ Beware that thou forget not the Lorde thy God, not keeping his commandements, and his lawes, and his ordinances, which I commaunde thee this day:

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:12 @ Lest when thou hast eaten and filled thy selfe, and hast built goodly houses & dwelt therein,

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:13 @ And thy beastes, and thy sheepe are increased, and thy siluer and golde is multiplied, and all that thou hast is increased,

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:14 @ Then thine heart (note:)By attributing God's benefits to your own wisdom and labour, or to good fortune.(:note) be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:15 @ Who was thy guide in the great and terrible wildernes (wherein were fierie serpents, & scorpions, and drought, where was no water, who brought forth water for thee out of ye rock of flint:

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:16 @ Who fed thee in the wildernesse with MAN, which thy fathers knewe not) to humble thee, and and to proue thee, that he might doe thee good at thy latter ende.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:17 @ Beware least thou say in thine heart, My power, and the strength of mine owne hand hath prepared me this abundance.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:18 @ But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for [it is] he that (note:)If things concerning this life proceed only from God's mercy, how much more do spiritual gifts and everlasting life.(:note) giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as [it is] this day.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:19 @ And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I (note:)Or take to witness the heaven and the earth, as in (Deu_4:26).(:note) testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:20 @ As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before you, so ye shall perish, because ye woulde not be obedient vnto the voyce of the Lord your God.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:1 @ Hear, O Israel: Thou [art] to pass over Jordan (note:)Meaning shortly.(:note) this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:2 @ A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and [of whom] thou hast (note:)By the report of the spies. (Num_13:26).(:note) heard [say], Who can stand before the children of Anak!

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:3 @ Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God [is] he which (note:)To guide you and govern you.(:note) goeth over before thee; [as] a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:4 @ Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my (note:)Man by himself deserves nothing but God's anger, and if God spares anyone it comes from his great mercy.(:note) righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:5 @ For thou entrest not to inherite their lande for thy righteousnesse, or for thy vpright heart: but for the wickednesse of those nations, the Lord thy God doth cast them out before thee, and that he might performe the worde which the Lord thy God sware vnto thy fathers, Abraham, Izhak, and Iacob.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:6 @ Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou [art] a (note:)Like stubborn oxen who will not endure their masters yoke.(:note) stiffnecked people.

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