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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Deuteronomy 7 ISV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/deuteronomy/7.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/deuteronomy/7-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ISV</a> > Deuteronomy 7</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../deuteronomy/6.htm" title="Deuteronomy 6">◄</a> Deuteronomy 7 <a href="../deuteronomy/8.htm" title="Deuteronomy 8">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/deuteronomy/7.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Instructions Regarding the Tribal Nations</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, he will drive out many nations before you: the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations who are more numerous and stronger than you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>So when the LORD your God delivers them to you and you have defeated them, then utterly destroy them. You are not to make any covenant with them nor be gracious to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You are not to intermarry with them. You are not to give your daughters to their sons nor take their daughters for your sons, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>because they will turn your children from me to serve other gods so that the LORD’s anger blazes against you and swiftly destroys you by fire. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>This is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, break their pillars, cut down their ritual pillars, and burn their carved idols in fire, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>because you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God chose you to be his people, his treasured possession from all the peoples on the face of the earth.”</p> <p class="heading">The LORD Keeps His Covenant</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“It wasn’t because you were more numerous than other people of the earth that the LORD committed himself to you and chose you. In fact, you were the least numerous of all the peoples. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But the LORD loved you and kept his oath that he made to your ancestors. The LORD brought you out with great power from slavery,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="7:8 Lit. from the house of slaveries">a</a></span> from the control of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Know that the LORD your God is God, the trusted God who faithfully keeps his covenant to the thousandth generation of those who love him and obey his commands. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But for the one who hates him, he will repay him by destroying him. He will not delay dealing with someone who hates him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Therefore keep the commands, decrees, and the ordinances that I am instructing you to obey today.”</p> <p class="heading">The LORD Blesses Obedience</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“If you pay attention to these laws and obey them, then the LORD your God will continue his covenant of gracious love with you that he promised with an oath to your ancestors. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He’ll love you and increase your numbers. He’ll bless the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your land (the grain, new wine, and oil), the offspring of your herds, and the lambs of your flock, in the land that the LORD promised your ancestors he would give you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You’ll be blessed among all the nations. There’ll be no infertility among you, not even<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="7:14 Lit. you, neither infertility">b</a></span> among your herds. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The LORD will turn aside every disease from you. He won’t inflict on you the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but will inflict them instead on all who hate you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>You are to utterly destroy everyone whom the LORD your God will deliver to you. Don’t have pity on them nor serve their gods. Otherwise, they will become a snare for you.”</p> <p class="heading">The LORD will Fight for You</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“You may say to yourselves, ‘These nations are more numerous than we are. How can we dispossess them?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But you mustn’t fear them. Be sure to remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and all of Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Your eyes saw the great trials, the signs and wonders, and the awesome power with which<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="7:19 Lit. wonders, with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm">c</a></span> the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the people whom you fear. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He’ll<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="7:20 Lit. The LORD your God will">d</a></span> send plagues against them until the survivors who hide from you have perished. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Don’t tremble before them, because the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>He<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="7:22 Lit. The LORD your God">e</a></span> slowly will dislodge these nations before you, but he won’t destroy them quickly, so the wild animals<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="7:22 Lit. the beasts of the field">f</a></span> won’t multiply around you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But the LORD your God will deliver them over to you, throwing them into great confusion, until they are destroyed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>He will deliver kings into your control, and you are to wipe out the memory of them<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="7:24 Lit. will cause their names to perish">g</a></span> from under heaven. No one will be able to stand before you. You are to utterly destroy them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Burn the images of their gods in the fire. Desire neither the silver nor the gold that adorns them, nor take them for yourselves, so you won’t be ensnared by them, because the gold and silver<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="7:25 Lit. because it">h</a></span> is detestable to the LORD your God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Don’t bring any detestable thing to your house, because you yourself will be utterly destroyed along with these detestable things. You must absolutely abhor and detest all of<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="7:26 The Heb. lacks all of">i</a></span> it, because it has been devoted to destruction.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 7:8 Lit. <i>from the house of slaveries</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 7:14 Lit. <i>you, neither infertility</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 7:19 Lit. <i>wonders, with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 7:20 Lit. <i>The LORD your God will</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 7:22 Lit. <i>The LORD your God</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 7:22 Lit. <i>the beasts of the field</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 7:24 Lit. <i>will cause their names to perish</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 7:25 Lit. <i>because it</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 7:26 The Heb. lacks <i>all of</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></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></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/deuteronomy/7-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>