Deuteronomy 7:15 - Prayer Tents

Deuteronomy 7

Driving Out the Nations

7When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—H3068H430H935H776H935H3423H5394H7227H1471H6440H2850H1622H567H3669H6522H2340H2983H7651H1471H7227H60992and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.H3068H430H5414H6440H5221H2763H2763H3772H1285H26033Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,H2859H1323H5414H1121H1323H3947H11214for they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods, and the LORD'S anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you.H5493H1121H310H5647H312H430H639H3068H2734H8045H41185This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire.H6213H5422H4196H7665H4676H1438H842H8313H6456H7846For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.H6918H5971H3068H430H3068H430H977H5459H5971H5971H6440H1277The LORD did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.H3068H2836H977H7230H5971H4592H59718But it was because the LORD loved you and kept the oath he swore to your forefathers that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.H3068H160H8104H7621H7650H1H3068H3318H2389H3027H6299H1004H5650H3027H6547H4428H47149Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands.H3045H3068H430H430H539H410H8104H1285H2617H157H8104H4687H505H175510But those who hate him he will repay to their face by destruction; he will not be slow to repay to their face those who hate him.H7999H8130H6440H6H309H8130H7999H644011Therefore, take care to follow the commands, decrees and laws I give you today.H8104H4687H2706H4941H6680H3117H621312If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the LORD your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your forefathers.H6118H8085H4941H8104H6213H3068H430H8104H1285H2617H7650H113He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land—your grain, new wine and oil—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land that he swore to your forefathers to give you.H157H1288H7235H1288H6529H990H6529H127H1715H8492H3323H7698H504H6251H6629H127H7650H1H541414You will be blessed more than any other people; none of your men or women will be childless, nor any of your livestock without young.H1288H5971H6135H6135H92915The LORD will keep you free from every disease. He will not inflict on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but he will inflict them on all who hate you.H3068H5493H2483H7760H7451H4064H4714H3045H5414H813016You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God gives over to you. Do not look on them with pity and do not serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.H398H5971H3068H430H5414H5869H2347H5647H430H417017You may say to yourselves, "These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?"H559H3824H1471H7227H349H3201H342318But do not be afraid of them; remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.H3372H2142H2142H3068H430H6213H6547H471419You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the miraculous signs and wonders, the mighty hand and outstretched arm, with which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.H1419H4531H5869H7200H226H4159H2389H3027H5186H2220H3068H430H3318H3068H430H6213H5971H3373H644020Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet among them until even the survivors who hide from you have perished.H3068H430H7971H6880H7604H5641H6440H621Do not be terrified by them, for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God.H6206H6440H3068H430H7130H1419H410H337222The LORD your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little. You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you.H3068H430H5394H411H1471H6440H4592H4592H3201H3615H4118H2416H7704H723523But the LORD your God will deliver them over to you, throwing them into great confusion until they are destroyed.H3068H430H5414H6440H1949H1419H4103H804524He will give their kings into your hand, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand up against you; you will destroy them.H5414H4428H3027H6H8034H8064H376H3320H6440H804525The images of their gods you are to burn in the fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the LORD your God.H6456H430H8313H784H2530H3701H2091H3947H3369H8441H3068H43026Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. Utterly abhor and detest it, for it is set apart for destruction.H935H8441H1004H2764H8262H8262H8581H8581H2764