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Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy! <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>for they will turn your sons away from me to worship other gods. Then the anger of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> will erupt against you and he will quickly destroy you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, cut down their sacred Asherah poles, and burn up their idols. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For you are a people holy to the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.</p> <p class="title">The Basis of Israel’s Election</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>It is not because you were more numerous than all the other peoples that the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> favored and chose you – for in fact you were the least numerous of all peoples. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Rather it is because of his love for you and his faithfulness to the promise he solemnly vowed to your ancestors that the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> brought you out with great power, redeeming you from the place of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So realize that the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> your God is the true God, the faithful God who keeps covenant faithfully with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>but who pays back those who hate him as they deserve and destroys them. He will not ignore those who hate him but will repay them as they deserve! <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So keep the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that I today am commanding you to do.</p> <p class="title">Promises of Good for Covenant Obedience</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>If you obey these ordinances and are careful to do them, the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> your God will faithfully keep covenant with you as he promised your ancestors. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He will love and bless you, and make you numerous. He will bless you with many children, with the produce of your soil, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land which he promised your ancestors to give you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You will be blessed beyond all peoples; there will be no barrenness among you or your livestock. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> will protect you from all sickness, and you will not experience any of the terrible diseases that you knew in Egypt; instead he will inflict them on all those who hate you.</p> <p class="title">Exhortation to Destroy Canaanite Paganism</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>You must destroy all the people whom the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> your God is about to deliver over to you; you must not pity them or worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>If you think, “These nations are more numerous than I – how can I dispossess them?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>you must not fear them. You must carefully recall what the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>the great judgments you saw, the signs and wonders, the strength and power by which he brought you out – thus the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> your God will do to all the people you fear. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Furthermore, the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> your God will release hornets among them until the very last ones who hide from you perish. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>You must not tremble in their presence, for the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> your God, who is present among you, is a great and awesome God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>He, the God who leads you, will expel the nations little by little. You will not be allowed to destroy them all at once lest the wild animals overrun you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> your God will give them over to you; he will throw them into a great panic until they are destroyed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>He will hand over their kings to you and you will erase their very names from memory. Nobody will be able to resist you until you destroy them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>You must burn the images of their gods, but do not covet the silver and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent to the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> your God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is an object of divine wrath.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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