Deuteronomy 7:6

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4 For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; ^aso the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.

5 But thus you shall deal with them: you shall ^adestroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their¹ wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.

6 “For you are a¹ holy people to the Lord your God; ^athe Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.

7 The Lord did not set His ^alove on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were ^bthe least of all peoples;

8 but ^abecause the Lord loves you, and because He would keep ^bthe oath which He swore to your fathers, ^cthe Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of¹ bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

9 “Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, ^athe faithful God ^bwho keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;

10 and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not¹ be ^aslack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face.

11 Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.

Blessings of Obedience

12 “Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers.

13 And He will ^alove you and bless you and multiply you; ^bHe will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He² swore to your fathers to give you.

14 You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female ^abarren among you or among your livestock.

15 And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the ^aterrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you.

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Barnes' Notes

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Deuteronomy 7:1-11

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 and Exodus 34:13 note.

Deuteronomy 7:7

The fewest of all people - God chose for Himself Israel, when as yet but a single family, or rather a single person, Abraham; though there were already numerous nations and powerful kingdoms in the earth. Increase Deuteronomy 1:10; Deuteronomy 10:22 had taken place because of the very blessing of God spoken of in Deuteronomy 7:8.

Deuteronomy 7:10

Repayeth them that hate him to their face - i. e., punishes His enemies in their own proper persons.

Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Deuteronomy 7:6:

Deuteronomy 6:10-25
Acts 10:28

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