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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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"><title>Deuteronomy 7 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">The <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s Own People</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="EXO 34:11-16">Exodus 34.11-16</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v5_7_1"><span class="reftext" id="Deut.7.1" class="v5_7_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Deut.7.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “The <span class="nd">Lord</span> your God will bring you into the land that you are going to occupy, and he will drive many nations out of it. As you advance, he will drive out seven nations larger and more powerful than you: the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. </span><span class="v5_7_2"><span class="reftext" id="Deut.7.2" class="v5_7_2">2</span>When the <span class="nd">Lord</span> your God places these people in your power and you defeat them, you must put them all to death. Do not make an alliance with them or show them any mercy. </span><span class="v5_7_3"><span class="reftext" id="Deut.7.3" class="v5_7_3">3</span>Do not marry any of them, and do not let your children marry any of them, </span><span class="v5_7_4"><span class="reftext" id="Deut.7.4" class="v5_7_4">4</span>because then they would lead your children away from the <span class="nd">Lord</span> to worship other gods. If that happens, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> will be angry with you and destroy you at once. </span><span class="v5_7_5"><span class="reftext" id="Deut.7.5" class="v5_7_5">5</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Deut.7.5!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> So then, tear down their altars, break their sacred stone pillars in pieces, cut down their symbols of the goddess Asherah, and burn their idols. </span><span class="v5_7_6"><span class="reftext" id="Deut.7.6" class="v5_7_6">6</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Deut.7.6!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Do this because you belong to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> your God. From all the peoples on earth he chose you to be his own special people.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v5_7_7"><span class="reftext" id="Deut.7.7" class="v5_7_7">7</span>“The <span class="nd">Lord</span> did not love you and choose you because you outnumbered other peoples; you were the smallest nation on earth. </span><span class="v5_7_8"><span class="reftext" id="Deut.7.8" class="v5_7_8">8</span>But the <span class="nd">Lord</span> loved you and wanted to keep the promise that he made to your ancestors. That is why he saved you by his great might and set you free from slavery to the king of Egypt. </span><span class="v5_7_9"><span class="reftext" id="Deut.7.9" class="v5_7_9">9</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Deut.7.9!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Remember that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> your God is the only God and that he is faithful. He will keep his covenant and show his constant love to a thousand generations of those who love him and obey his commands, </span><span class="v5_7_10"><span class="reftext" id="Deut.7.10" class="v5_7_10">10</span>but he will not hesitate to punish those who hate him. </span><span class="v5_7_11"><span class="reftext" id="Deut.7.11" class="v5_7_11">11</span>Now then, obey what you have been taught; obey all the laws that I have given you today.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Blessings of Obedience</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="DEU 28:1-14">Deuteronomy 28.1-14</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v5_7_12"><span class="reftext" id="Deut.7.12" class="v5_7_12">12</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Deut.7.12!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “If you listen to these commands and obey them faithfully, then the <span class="nd">Lord</span> your God will continue to keep his covenant with you and will show you his constant love, as he promised your ancestors. </span><span class="v5_7_13"><span class="reftext" id="Deut.7.13" class="v5_7_13">13</span>He will love you and bless you, so that you will increase in number and have many children; he will bless your fields, so that you will have grain, wine, and olive oil; and he will bless you by giving you many cattle and sheep. He will give you all these blessings in the land that he promised your ancestors he would give to you. </span><span class="v5_7_14"><span class="reftext" id="Deut.7.14" class="v5_7_14">14</span>No people in the world will be as richly blessed as you. None of you nor any of your livestock will be sterile. </span><span class="v5_7_15"><span class="reftext" id="Deut.7.15" class="v5_7_15">15</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> will protect you from all sickness, and he will not bring on you any of the dreadful diseases that you experienced in Egypt, but he will bring them on all your enemies. </span><span class="v5_7_16"><span class="reftext" id="Deut.7.16" class="v5_7_16">16</span>Destroy every nation that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> your God places in your power, and do not show them any mercy. Do not worship their gods, for that would be fatal.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v5_7_17"><span class="reftext" id="Deut.7.17" class="v5_7_17">17</span>“Do not tell yourselves that these peoples outnumber you and that you cannot drive them out. </span><span class="v5_7_18"><span class="reftext" id="Deut.7.18" class="v5_7_18">18</span>Do not be afraid of them; remember what the <span class="nd">Lord</span> your God did to the king of Egypt and to all his people. </span><span class="v5_7_19"><span class="reftext" id="Deut.7.19" class="v5_7_19">19</span>Remember the terrible plagues that you saw with your own eyes, the miracles and wonders, and the great power and strength by which the <span class="nd">Lord</span> your God set you free. In the same way that he destroyed the Egyptians, he will destroy all these people that you now fear. </span><span class="v5_7_20"><span class="reftext" id="Deut.7.20" class="v5_7_20">20</span>He will even cause panic<a href="#fn" id="link_Deut.7.20!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> among them and will destroy those who escape and go into hiding. </span><span class="v5_7_21"><span class="reftext" id="Deut.7.21" class="v5_7_21">21</span>So do not be afraid of these people. The <span class="nd">Lord</span> your God is with you; he is a great God and one to be feared. </span><span class="v5_7_22"><span class="reftext" id="Deut.7.22" class="v5_7_22">22</span>Little by little he will drive out these nations as you advance. You will not be able to destroy them all at once, for, if you did, the number of wild animals would increase and be a threat to you. </span><span class="v5_7_23"><span class="reftext" id="Deut.7.23" class="v5_7_23">23</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> will put your enemies in your power and make them panic until they are destroyed. </span><span class="v5_7_24"><span class="reftext" id="Deut.7.24" class="v5_7_24">24</span>He will put their kings in your power. You will kill them, and they will be forgotten. No one will be able to stop you; you will destroy everyone. </span><span class="v5_7_25"><span class="reftext" id="Deut.7.25" class="v5_7_25">25</span>Burn their idols. Do not desire the silver or gold that is on them, and do not take it for yourselves. If you do, that will be fatal, because the <span class="nd">Lord</span> hates idolatry. </span><span class="v5_7_26"><span class="reftext" id="Deut.7.26" class="v5_7_26">26</span>Do not bring any of these idols into your homes, or the same curse will be on you that is on them. You must hate and despise these idols, because they are under the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s curse.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">7.20: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">cause panic; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">send hornets, </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">send plagues.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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