Deuteronomy Chapter 7

Deuteronomy Chapter 7
1 When the Lord thy God shall bring
thee into the land whither thou goest to
possess it, and shall root 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, 2 And the
Lord thy God shall give them before
thee, then thou shalt smite them: thou
shalt utterly destroy them: thou shalt
make no covenant with them, nor have
compassion on them,
3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with
them, neither give thy daughter unto his
son, nor take his daughter unto thy son.
4 For they will cause thy son to turn
away from me, and to serve other gods:
then will the wrath of the Lord wax hot
against you and destroy thee suddenly. 5
But thus ye shall deal with them, Ye
shall overthrow their altars, and break
down their pillars, and ye shall cut down
their groves, and burn their graven
images with fire.
6 For thou art an holy people unto the
Lord thy God, the Lord thy God hath
chosen thee, to be a precious people
unto himself, above all people that are
upon the earth.
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: 8 But
because the Lord loved you, and because
he would keep the oath which he had
sworn unto your fathers, the Lord hath
brought you out by a mighty hand, and
delivered you out of the house of
bondage from the hand of Pharaoh king
of Egypt,
9 That thou mayest know, that the Lord
thy God, he is God, the faithful God
which keepeth covenant and mercy unto
them that love him and keep his
commandments, even to a thousand
generations,
10 And rewardeth them to their face that
hate him, to bring them to destruction: he
will not defer to reward him that hateth
him, to his face. 11 Keep thou therefore
the commandments, and the ordinances,
and the laws, which I command thee this
day to do them.
12 For if ye hearken unto these laws, and
observe and do them, then the Lord thy
God shall keep with thee the covenant,
and the mercy which he swear unto thy
fathers.
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
and the increase of thy kine, and the
flocks of thy sheep in the land, which he
swear unto thy fathers to give thee.
14 Thou shalt be blessed above all
people: there shall be neither male nor
female barren among you, nor among
your cattle.
15 Moreover, the Lord will take away
from thee all infirmities, and will put
none of the evil diseases of Egypt
(which thou knowest) upon thee, but will
send them upon all that hate thee.
16 Thou shalt therefore consume all
people which the Lord thy God shall
give thee: thine eye shall not spare them,
neither shalt thou serve their gods, for
that shall be thy 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 temptations 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 Moreover, the Lord thy God will
send 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 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 burn with fire, and covet not the
silver and gold, that is on them, nor take
it unto thee, lest thou 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 accursed.