King James VersionDeuteronomy7

Deuteronomy

1 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whith­er thou goest to pos­sess it, and hath cast out many na­tions be­fore thee, 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 thou; 2 And when the LORD thy God shall de­liv­er them be­fore thee; thou shalt smite them, and ut­ter­ly de­stroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mer­cy unto them: 3 Nei­ther shalt thou make mar­riages with them; thy daugh­ter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daugh­ter shalt thou take unto thy son. 4 For they will turn away thy son from fol­low­ing me, that they may serve oth­er gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kin­dled against you, and de­stroy thee sud­den­ly. 5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall de­stroy their al­tars, and break down their im­ages, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven im­ages with fire. 6 For thou art an holy peo­ple unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath cho­sen thee to be a spe­cial peo­ple unto him­self, above all peo­ple that are upon the face of the earth. 7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, be­cause ye were more in num­ber than any peo­ple; for ye were the fewest of all peo­ple: 8 But be­cause the LORD loved you, and be­cause he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fa­thers, hath the LORD 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 the LORD thy God, he is God, the faith­ful God, which keep­eth covenant and mer­cy with them that love him and keep his com­mand­ments to a thou­sand gen­er­a­tions; 10 And re­payeth them that hate him to their face, to de­stroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will re­pay him to his face. 11 Thou shalt there­fore keep the com­mand­ments, and the statutes, and the judg­ments, which I com­mand thee this day, to do them. 12 Where­fore it shall come to pass, if ye hear­ken to these judg­ments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mer­cy which he sware unto thy fa­thers: 13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and mul­ti­ply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the in­crease of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fa­thers to give thee. 14 Thou shalt be blessed above all peo­ple: there shall not be male or fe­male bar­ren among you, or among your cat­tle. 15 And the LORD will take away from thee all sick­ness, and will put none of the evil dis­eases of Egypt, which thou know­est, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee. 16 And thou shalt con­sume all the peo­ple which the LORD thy God shall de­liv­er thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: nei­ther shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee. 17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These na­tions are more than I; how can I dis­pos­sess them? 18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well re­mem­ber what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt; 19 The great temp­ta­tions which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the won­ders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, where­by the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the peo­ple of whom thou art afraid. 20 More­over the LORD thy God will send the hor­net among them, un­til they that are left, and hide them­selves from thee, be de­stroyed. 21 Thou shalt not be af­fright­ed at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and ter­ri­ble. 22 And the LORD thy God will put out those na­tions be­fore thee by lit­tle and lit­tle: thou mayest not con­sume them at once, lest the beasts of the field in­crease upon thee. 23 But the LORD thy God shall de­liv­er them unto thee, and shall de­stroy them with a mighty de­struc­tion, un­til they be de­stroyed. 24 And he shall de­liv­er their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt de­stroy their name from un­der heav­en: there shall no man be able to stand be­fore thee, un­til thou have de­stroyed them. 25 The graven im­ages of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not de­sire the sil­ver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared there­in: for it is an abom­i­na­tion to the LORD thy God. 26 Nei­ther shalt thou bring an abom­i­na­tion into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt ut­ter­ly de­test it, and thou shalt ut­ter­ly ab­hor it; for it is a cursed thing.