Chapter 7
- 7:1
- 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;
- 7:2
- And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and
utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
- 7:3
- Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his
son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
- 7:4
- For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so
will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
- 7:5
- But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their
images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
- 7:6
- 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.
- 7:7
- The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number
than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
- 7:8
- But because the LORD 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.
- 7:9
- 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;
- 7:10
- And repayeth 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.
- 7:11
- Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I
command thee this day, to do them.
- 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 mercy which he sware
unto thy fathers:
- 7:13
- And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit
of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the
increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy
fathers to give thee.
- 7:14
- Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among
you, or among your cattle.
- 7:15
- And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil
diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that
hate thee.
- 7:16
- And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine
eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a
snare unto thee.
- 7:17
- If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess
them?
- 7:18
- Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto
Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
- 7:19
- The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the
mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so
shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.
- 7:20
- Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and
hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
- 7:21
- Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God
and terrible.
- 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 beasts of the field increase upon thee.
- 7:23
- But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty
destruction, until they be destroyed.
- 7:24
- 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 have destroyed
them.
- 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 be snared therin: for it
is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
- 7:26
- Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing
like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a
cursed thing.