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and when Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;
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A Just, Not Cruel, Command
Commentators stress that this command was not an act of random cruelty but the execution of God's just sentence. After 400 years of patience (Genesis 15:16), the Canaanite nations' sins had become 'full.' Scholars like Calvin and Gill explain that Israel was acting as the instrument of God's long-delayed but righteous vengeance on nations guilty of capital crimes like idolatry and murder.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
See (Deuteronomy 6:10) note.
(Deuteronomy 7:5) Their groves - Render, their idols of wood: the reference is t…
19th Century
Anglican
And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee... —It would be possible to read, “Then the Lord your G…
16th Century
Protestant
You shall smite them and utterly destroy them. Those who think that there was cruelty in this command usurp too much authority concerning …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And when the Lord your God shall deliver them before you Into their hands:
you shall smite them, …
Here is a strict caution against all friendship and fellowship with idols and idolaters. Those who are in communion with God must have no associati…
