Deuteronomy 7 (NET)

Deuteronomy 7:1¹When the Lord your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you—Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 31:3Acts 13:19Deut 4:38Deut 20:1Deut 9:1Exod 33:2Gen 15:18-21Ps 44:2-3Deut 4:1-3Deut 9:4

Deuteronomy 7:2²and he delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 23:32-33Judg 2:2Deut 20:16-17Deut 23:14Josh 10:30Josh 11:11-12Josh 2:14Lev 27:28-292 Sam 21:2Deut 13:8

Deuteronomy 7:3³You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 11:2Josh 23:12-13Exod 34:15-162 Cor 6:14-17Judg 3:6-7Neh 13:23-27Ezra 9:1-2Gen 6:2-3

Deuteronomy 7:4⁴for they will turn your sons away from me to worship other gods. Then the anger of the Lord will erupt against you and he will quickly destroy you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 6:15Deut 32:16-17Deut 4:26Exod 20:5Judg 10:6-7Judg 2:11Judg 2:20Judg 3:7-8

Deuteronomy 7:5⁵Instead, 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 23:24Deut 12:2-3Exod 34:13Deut 16:22Deut 7:25Deut 9:21Judg 6:25-26Lev 26:12 Kgs 23:6-14Exod 32:20

Deuteronomy 7:6⁶For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 14:2Exod 19:5-61 Pet 2:9Mal 3:171 Cor 6:19-20Deut 26:19Amos 3:2Jer 2:3Titus 2:14Ps 50:5

Deuteronomy 7:7⁷It is not because you were more numerous than all the other peoples that the Lord favored and chose you—for in fact you were the least numerous of all peoples.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 10:22Rom 9:11-151 John 4:10Ps 115:1Rom 9:21Isa 51:2Luke 12:32Matt 7:14Rom 11:6Rom 9:18

Deuteronomy 7:8⁸Rather it is because of his love for you and his faithfulness to the promise he solemnly vowed to your ancestors that the Lord brought you out with great power, redeeming you from the place of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 20:2Eph 2:4-5Exod 32:13Jer 31:3Isa 43:4Deut 10:15Exod 13:14Exod 13:3Heb 6:13-17Luke 1:72-73

Deuteronomy 7:9⁹So realize that the Lord 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,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 10:232 Tim 2:132 Thess 3:3Dan 9:41 Cor 1:9Neh 1:51 Thess 5:24Rom 8:28Deut 5:10Exod 20:6

Deuteronomy 7:10¹⁰but 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!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 59:18Nah 1:2Rom 12:192 Pet 3:9-10Deut 32:25Deut 32:35Deut 7:9Exod 20:5John 15:23-24Prov 11:31

Deuteronomy 7:11¹¹So keep the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that I today am commanding you to do.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 14:15Deut 4:1Deut 5:32

Deuteronomy 7:12¹²If you obey these ordinances and are careful to do them, the Lord your God will faithfully keep covenant with you as he promised your ancestors.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 28:1-14Deut 7:9Lev 26:3-13Ps 105:8-10Luke 1:72-73Mic 7:20Luke 1:55

Deuteronomy 7:13¹³He 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 olive oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land that he promised your ancestors to give you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 14:21Deut 28:3-5John 15:10Exod 23:25John 16:27Deut 28:11Job 42:12Mal 3:10-11Matt 6:33Prov 10:22

Deuteronomy 7:14¹⁴You will be blessed beyond all peoples; there will be no barrenness among you or your livestock.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 28:4Exod 23:26-33Deut 28:11Ps 127:3Lev 26:9Deut 33:29Ps 147:19-20Ps 115:15

Deuteronomy 7:15¹⁵The Lord 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 15:26Ps 105:36-37Lev 26:3-4Deut 28:60Deut 28:27Exod 9:11

Deuteronomy 7:16¹⁶You must destroy all the people whom the Lord 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 23:33Judg 8:271 Cor 15:33Deut 13:8Deut 19:13Deut 19:21Deut 25:12Deut 7:2Exod 34:12-16Ps 106:36

Deuteronomy 7:17¹⁷If you think, “These nations are more numerous than I—how can I dispossess them?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 13:32Num 33:53Deut 15:9Deut 18:21Deut 8:17Isa 14:13Isa 47:8Isa 49:21Josh 17:16-18Luke 9:47

Deuteronomy 7:18¹⁸you must not fear them. You must carefully recall what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 105:5Deut 31:6Deut 1:29Ps 77:11Isa 51:9-10Deut 3:6Exod 7:1-14Isa 41:10-14Isa 63:11-15Judg 6:13

Deuteronomy 7:19¹⁹the great judgments you saw, the signs and wonders, the strength and power by which he brought you out—thus the Lord your God will do to all the people you fear.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 4:34Neh 9:10-11Jer 32:20-21Josh 3:10Deut 11:2-4Deut 29:3Ezek 20:6-9

Deuteronomy 7:20²⁰Furthermore, the Lord your God will release hornets among them until the very last ones who hide from you perish.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 24:12Exod 23:28-30

Deuteronomy 7:21²¹You must not tremble in their presence, for the Lord your God, who is present among you, is a great and awesome God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 10:17Josh 3:10Neh 1:5Neh 9:32Neh 4:14Isa 8:9-10Ps 46:51 Cor 14:251 Sam 4:82 Chr 32:8

Deuteronomy 7:22²²He, 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 23:29-30Josh 15:63

Deuteronomy 7:23²³The Lord your God will give them over to you; he will throw them into a great panic until they are destroyed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Thess 1:9Deut 2:15Deut 8:20Deut 9:3Isa 13:6Jer 17:18Joel 1:15

Deuteronomy 7:24²⁴He 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 10:8Josh 23:9Josh 1:5Josh 10:42Deut 11:25Deut 9:14Isa 54:17Josh 10:24-25Rom 8:371 Cor 15:57

Deuteronomy 7:25²⁵You 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 Lord your God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 32:201 Chr 14:12Deut 17:1Deut 12:3Josh 7:211 Tim 6:9-10Deut 23:18Deut 7:16Deut 7:5Isa 30:22

Deuteronomy 7:26²⁶You 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 13:17Hos 14:8Ezek 11:18Isa 30:22Rom 2:22Ezek 14:7Josh 6:17-24Josh 7:1-26Lev 27:28-29Hab 2:9-11