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Deuteronomy
Chapter 7
1
When Jehovah/God your 'Elohiym/Godhead
shall
bring you into the land where you go to possess it,
and
has cast out many nations before you,
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 you.
{See
Verse 4 for the 'Reason'}
2
And when Jehovah/God your 'Elohiym/Godhead
shall
deliver them before you;
you
shall smite them, and utterly destroy them;
you
shall make no covenant with them,
nor
show mercy unto them.
3
Neither shall you make marriages with them;
your
daughter you shall not give unto his son,
nor
his daughter shall you take unto your son.
{Reason
for all the Above Given}
4a
For they will turn away your son from following Me,
that
they may serve other 'elohiym/gods.
{Note:
These people were involved in horrible 'religion'. They practiced
the acts of the Phallic Cult. That means they mixed sexual orgies
with idolatry which also included the human sacrifice of their
children. God realized that if this 'society' were permitted to
survive, its ways could destroy the entire human race. The human race
had to survive for Jesus Christ to come to the cross.}
4b
So will the anger of Jehovah/God
be
kindled against you,
and
destroy you suddenly.
5
But thus shall you deal with them:
you
shall destroy their altars,
and
break down their images,
and
cut down their 'Asherah/'sacred poles to worship Astarte',
{'Asherah - the Phallic Cult was usually practiced on high hills
with many trees and they carved poles to practice this idol worship}
and
burn their graven images with fire.
6
For you are an holy people unto Jehovah/God
your
'Elohiym/Godhead.
Jehovah/God
your 'Elohiym/Godhead
has
chosen you to be a special people unto Himself,
above
all people who are upon the face of the earth.
7
Jehovah/God did not set His love upon you,
nor
choose you,
because
you were more in number than any people;
for
you were the fewest of all people.
8
But because Jehovah/God loved you,
and
because He would guard/keep the oath
which
He had sworn unto your fathers,
has
Jehovah/God brought you out with a mighty hand,
and
redeemed you out of the house of bondmen,
from
the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9
Know therefore that Jehovah/God
your
'Elohiym/Godhead,
He
is 'Elohiym/Godhead,
the
faithful 'El/God,
Who
guards the covenant and mercy with them
who
love Him and guard/keep His commandments
to
a thousand generations.
10
And repays those who hate Him to their face,
to
destroy them.
He
will not be slack to him who hates Him,
He
will repay him to his face.
11
You shall therefore guard/keep the commandments,
and
the statutes, and the judgments,
which
I command you this day, to do them.
12
Wherefore it shall come to pass,
if
you 'hear, listen and obey' {shama'}
to
these judgments,
and
guard/keep, and do them,
that
Jehovah/God your 'Elohiym/Godhead
shall
guard/keep unto you the covenant
and
the mercy which He swore unto your fathers.
13
And 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 corn, and your wine,
and
your oil, the increase of your kine/cattle,
and
the flocks of your sheep,
in
the land which He swore unto your fathers to give you.
14
You shall be blessed above all people.
There
shall not be male or female barren among you,
or
among your cattle.
15
And Jehovah/God will take away from you all sickness,
and
will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt,
which
you know, upon you;
but
will lay them upon all those who hate you.
16
And you shall consume all the people
which
Jehovah/God your 'Elohiym/Godhead shall deliver you;
your
eye shall have no pity upon them.
Neither
shall you serve their 'elohiym/gods;
for
that will be a snare unto you.
17
If you shall say in your heart,
These
nations are more than I;
how
can I dispossess them?
18
You shall not be afraid of them.
But
shall well remember what Jehovah/God
your
'Elohiym/Godhead did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt.
19
The great temptations which your eyes saw,
and
the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand,
and
the stretched out arm,
whereby
Jehovah/God your 'Elohiym/Godhead
brought
you out.
So
shall Jehovah/God your 'Elohiym/Godhead
do
unto all the people of whom you are afraid.
20
Moreover Jehovah/God your 'Elohiym/Godhead
will
send the hornet among them,
until
they that are left,
and
hide themselves from you,
be
destroyed.
21
You shall not be affrighted at them.
For
Jehovah/God your 'Elohiym/Godhead is among you,
a
mighty God/'El and terrible.
22
And Jehovah/God your 'Elohiym/Godhead
will
put out those nations before you by little and little.
You
may not consume them at once,
lest
the beasts of the field increase upon you.
23
But Jehovah/God your 'Elohiym/Godhead
shall
deliver them unto you,
and
shall destroy them with a mighty destruction,
until
they be destroyed.
24
And he shall deliver their kings into your hand,
and
you shall destroy their name from under heaven.
There
shall no man be able to stand before you,
until
you have destroyed them.
25
The graven images of their gods/'elohiym
shall
you burn with fire.
You
shall not desire the silver or gold that is on them,
nor
take it unto you, lest you be snared therein.
For
it is an abomination to Jehovah/God
your
'Elohiym/Godhead.
26
Neither shall you bring an abomination into your house,
lest
you be a cursed thing like it.
But
you shall utterly detest it,
and
you shall utterly abhor it;
for
it is a cursed thing {cherem}.
{Note: Cherem is a very important biblical principle. It means to be accursed before God with no hope for redemption. The city of Jericho was cherem so it had to be totally destroyed when the Jews entered the land. However a Jew took items from Jericho voluntarily thereby voluntarily taking the cherem to himself and he had to die. Now the importance is that Jesus Christ voluntarily became 'cherem' for us. He voluntarily went to the cross and was imputed with all the sins of the world and those sins were judged. He HAD to do this in order for all mankind to have the possibility of salvation.}
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