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Verse	Translation	Text
De 7:1	Strong Concordance	When the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] shall bring [0935] thee into the land [0776] whither thou goest [0935] to possess [03423] it, and hath cast out [05394] many [07227] nations [01471] before [06440] thee, the Hittites [02850], and the Girgashites [01622], and the Amorites [0567], and the Canaanites [03669], and the Perizzites [06522], and the Hivites [02340], and the Jebusites [02983], seven [07651] nations [01471] greater [07227] and mightier [06099] than thou;
	King James	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;

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
ALL COMMUNION WITH THE NATIONS FORBIDDEN. (Deu. 7:1-26) the Hittites--This people were descended from Heth, the second son of Canaan (Gen 10:15), and occupied the mountainous region about Hebron, in the south of Palestine. the Girgashites--supposed by some to be the same as the Gergesenes (Mat 8:28), who lay to the east of Lake Gennesareth; but they are placed on the west of Jordan (Jos 24:11), and others take them for a branch of the large family of the Hivites, as they are omitted in nine out of ten places where the tribes of Canaan are enumerated; in the tenth they are mentioned, while the Hivites are not. the Amorites--descended from the fourth son of Canaan. They occupied, besides their conquest on the Moabite territory, extensive settlements west of the Dead Sea, in the mountains. the Canaanites--located in PhÅ“nicia, particularly about Tyre and Sidon, and being sprung from the oldest branch of the family of Canaan, bore his name. the Perizzites--that is, villagers, a tribe who were dispersed throughout the country and lived in unwalled towns. the Hivites--who dwelt about Ebal and Gerizim, extending towards Hermon. They are supposed to be the same as the Avims. the Jebusites--resided about Jerusalem and the adjacent country. seven nations greater and mightier than thou--Ten were formerly mentioned (Gen 15:19-21). But in the lapse of near five hundred years, it cannot be surprising that some of them had been extinguished in the many intestine feuds that prevailed among those warlike tribes. It is more than probable that some, stationed on the east of Jordan, had fallen under the victorious arms of the Israelites.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

ALL COMMUNION WITH THE NATIONS FORBIDDEN. (Deu. 7:1-26)

the Hittites--This people were descended from Heth, the second son of Canaan (Gen 10:15), and occupied the mountainous region about Hebron, in the south of Palestine.

the Girgashites--supposed by some to be the same as the Gergesenes (Mat 8:28), who lay to the east of Lake Gennesareth; but they are placed on the west of Jordan (Jos 24:11), and others take them for a branch of the large family of the Hivites, as they are omitted in nine out of ten places where the tribes of Canaan are enumerated; in the tenth they are mentioned, while the Hivites are not.

the Amorites--descended from the fourth son of Canaan. They occupied, besides their conquest on the Moabite territory, extensive settlements west of the Dead Sea, in the mountains.

the Canaanites--located in PhÅ“nicia, particularly about Tyre and Sidon, and being sprung from the oldest branch of the family of Canaan, bore his name.

the Perizzites--that is, villagers, a tribe who were dispersed throughout the country and lived in unwalled towns.

the Hivites--who dwelt about Ebal and Gerizim, extending towards Hermon. They are supposed to be the same as the Avims.

the Jebusites--resided about Jerusalem and the adjacent country.

seven nations greater and mightier than thou--Ten were formerly mentioned (Gen 15:19-21). But in the lapse of near five hundred years, it cannot be surprising that some of them had been extinguished in the many intestine feuds that prevailed among those warlike tribes. It is more than probable that some, stationed on the east of Jordan, had fallen under the victorious arms of the Israelites.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
See Deu 6:10 note. Deu 7:5 Their groves - Render, their idols of wood: the reference is to the wooden trunk used as a representation of Ashtaroth; see Deu 7:13 and Exo 34:13 note. Deu 7:7 The fewest of all people - God chose for Himself Israel, when as yet but a single family, or rather a single person, Abraham; though there were already numerous nations and powerful kingdoms in the earth. Increase Deu 1:10; Deu 10:22 had taken place because of the very blessing of God spoken of in Deu 7:8. Deu 7:10 Repayeth them that hate him to their face - i. e., punishes His enemies in their own proper persons.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
As the Israelites were warned against idolatry in Deu 6:14, so here are they exhorted to beware of the false tolerance of sparing the Canaanites and enduring their idolatry. - Deu 7:1, Deu 7:5. When the Lord drove out the tribes of Canaan before the Israelites, and gave them up to them and smote them, they were to put them under the ban (see at Lev 27:28), to make no treaty with them, and to contract no marriage with them. נשׁל, to draw out, to cast away, e.g., the sandals (Exo 3:5); here and Deu 7:22 it signifies to draw out, or drive out a nation from its country and possessions: it occurs in this sense in the Piel in Kg2 16:6. On the Canaanitish tribes, see at Gen 10:15. and Deu 15:20-21. There are seven of them mentioned here, as in Jos 3:10 and Jos 24:11; on the other hand, there are only six in Deu 20:17, as in Exo 3:8, Exo 3:17; Exo 23:23, and Exo 33:2, the Girgashites being omitted. The prohibition against making a covenant, as in Exo 23:32 and Exo 34:12, and that against marrying, as in Exo 34:16, where the danger of the Israelites being drawn away to idolatry is mentioned as a still further reason for these commands. יסיר כּי, "for he (the Canaanite) will cause thy son to turn away from behind me," i.e., tempt him away from following me, "to serve other gods." Moses says "from following me," because he is speaking in the name of Jehovah. The consequences of idolatry, as in Deu 6:15; Deu 4:26, etc.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Seven nations - There were ten in Gen 15:19-21. But this being some hundreds of years after, it is not strange if three of them were either destroyed by foreign or domestick wars, or by cohabitation and marriage united with, and swallowed up in the rest.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
Seven nations greater and mightier than thou - In several places of the Hebrew text, each of these seven nations is not enumerated, some one or other being left out, which the Septuagint in general supply. How these nations were distributed over the land of Canaan previously to the entering in of the Israelites, the reader may see in the note on Jos 3:10 (note).

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¹⁹ The Kenites [07017], and the Kenizzites [07074], and the Kadmonites [06935],
²⁰ And the Hittites [02850], and the Perizzites [06522], and the Rephaims [07497],
²¹ And the Amorites [0567], and the Canaanites [03669], and the Girgashites [01622], and the Jebusites [02983].

¹¹ And ye went over [05674] Jordan [03383], and came [0935] unto Jericho [03405]: and the men [01167] of Jericho [03405] fought [03898] against you, the Amorites [0567], and the Perizzites [06522], and the Canaanites [03669], and the Hittites [02850], and the Girgashites [01622], the Hivites [02340], and the Jebusites [02983]; and I delivered [05414] them into your hand [03027].

²⁸ And [2532] when he [846] was come [2064] to [1519] the other side [4008] into [1519] the country [5561] of the Gergesenes [1086], there met [5221] him [846] two [1417] possessed with devils [1139], coming [1831] out of [1537] the tombs [3419], exceeding [3029] fierce [5467], so that [5620] no [3361] man [5100] might [2480] pass [3928] by [1223] that [1565] way [3598].

¹⁵ And Canaan [03667] begat [03205] Sidon [06721] his firstborn [01060], and Heth [02845],

¹⁰ And repayeth [07999] them that hate [08130] him to their face [06440], to destroy [06] them: he will not be slack [0309] to him that hateth [08130] him, he will repay [07999] him to his face [06440].

⁸ But because the LORD [03068] loved [0160] you, and because he would keep [08104] the oath [07621] which he had sworn [07650] unto your fathers [01], hath the LORD [03068] brought you out [03318] with a mighty [02389] hand [03027], and redeemed [06299] you out of the house [01004] of bondmen [05650], from the hand [03027] of Pharaoh [06547] king [04428] of Egypt [04714].

²² Thy fathers [01] went down [03381] into Egypt [04714] with threescore and ten [07657] persons [05315]; and now the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] hath made [07760] thee as the stars [03556] of heaven [08064] for multitude [07230].

¹⁰ The LORD [03068] your God [0430] hath multiplied [07235] you, and, behold, ye are this day [03117] as the stars [03556] of heaven [08064] for multitude [07230].

⁷ The LORD [03068] did not set his love [02836] upon you, nor choose [0977] you, because ye were more [07230] in number than any people [05971]; for ye were the fewest [04592] of all people [05971]:

¹³ But ye shall destroy [05422] their altars [04196], break [07665] their images [04676], and cut down [03772] their groves [0842]:

¹³ And he will love [0157] thee, and bless [01288] thee, and multiply [07235] thee: he will also bless [01288] the fruit [06529] of thy womb [0990], and the fruit [06529] of thy land [0127], thy corn [01715], and thy wine [08492], and thine oil [03323], the increase [07698] of thy kine [0504], and the flocks [06251] of thy sheep [06629], in the land [0127] which he sware [07650] unto thy fathers [01] to give [05414] thee.

⁵ But thus shall ye deal [06213] with them; ye shall destroy [05422] their altars [04196], and break down [07665] their images [04676], and cut down [01438] their groves [0842], and burn [08313] their graven images [06456] with fire [0784].

¹⁰ And it shall be, when the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] shall have brought [0935] thee into the land [0776] which he sware [07650] unto thy fathers [01], to Abraham [085], to Isaac [03327], and to Jacob [03290], to give [05414] thee great [01419] and goodly [02896] cities [05892], which thou buildedst [01129] not,

¹⁰ And Joshua [03091] said [0559], Hereby ye shall know [03045] that the living [02416] God [0410] is among [07130] you, and that he will without fail [03423] drive out [03423] from before [06440] you the Canaanites [03669], and the Hittites [02850], and the Hivites [02340], and the Perizzites [06522], and the Girgashites [01622], and the Amorites [0567], and the Jebusites [02983].