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You shall not make a covenant (treaty) with them nor show mercy <i>and</i> compassion to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>for they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods; then the anger of the LORD will be kindled <i>and</i> burn against you and He will quickly destroy you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But this is how you shall deal with them: you shall tear down their altars and smash to pieces their <i>sacred</i> pillars, and cut down their Asherim (symbols of the goddess Asherah), and burn their carved <i>or</i> sculpted images in the fire. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For you are a holy people [set apart] to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be a people for His own possession [that is, His very special treasure]. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“The LORD did not love you and choose you because you were greater in number than any of the <i>other</i> peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath which He swore to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed (bought) you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Therefore know [without any doubt] <i>and</i> understand that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God, who is keeping His covenant and His [steadfast] lovingkindness to a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>but repays those who hate Him to their faces, by destroying them; He will not hesitate with him who hates Him, He will repay him to his face. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Therefore, you shall keep (follow, obey) the commandment and the statutes and judgments (precepts) which I am commanding you today. <p class="hdg">Promises of God</p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Then it shall come about, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, that the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the [steadfast] lovingkindness which He swore to your fathers. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your [olive] oil, the offspring of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which He swore to your fathers to give you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no male or female barren (childless, infertile) among you or among your cattle. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The LORD will take away from you all sickness; and He will not subject you to any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but He will impose them on all [those] who hate you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And you shall consume all the peoples whom the LORD your God will give over to you; your eye shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that would be a [deadly] trap to you. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I am; how can I dispossess them?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>you shall not be afraid of them; you shall remember [with confidence] what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt-- <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>the great trials which you saw with your own eyes, and the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which the LORD your God brought you out. So shall the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet (His terror) against them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you perish. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>You shall not dread them, for the LORD your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little; you will not be able to put an end to them quickly, for [if you did] the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>wild animals would become too numerous for you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But the LORD your God will hand them over to you, and will confuse them with a great panic until they are destroyed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And He will hand over their kings to you, and you will make their name perish from under heaven; no man will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>You shall burn the carved <i>and</i> sculpted images of their gods in the fire. You shall not covet the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, so that you will not be ensnared by it [in a deadly trap], for it is an abomination (repulsive) to the LORD your God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>You shall not bring an abomination (idol) into your house, and like it come under the ban (doomed to destruction); you shall utterly detest and you shall utterly hate it, for it is something banned.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">22</span> Lit <i>beast of the field</i>.<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../deuteronomy/6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Deuteronomy 6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Deuteronomy 6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../deuteronomy/8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Deuteronomy 8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Deuteronomy 8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>