Deuteronomy 7:2 KJV
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:
Words Then and Now
- shew to show Still heard today: show, the same word; shewn is still a British legal spelling Webster’s 1828 · Show
What these words mean in the King James Bible, and where you’ll still hear them today.
Thou and Ye
- thy, thee, thou one person
In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?
Matthew Henry
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Cross References
- Deuteronomy 23:14 For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.
- Exodus 23:32–33 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. …
- Leviticus 27:28–29 Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD. …
- Deuteronomy 20:16–17 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth: …
- Joshua 2:14 And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.
- Judges 1:24 And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said unto him, Shew us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will shew thee mercy.
- Judges 2:2 And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?
- Genesis 14:20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
- Exodus 34:12–16 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: …
- Numbers 33:52 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
- Deuteronomy 3:3 So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.
- Deuteronomy 7:23–24 But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed. …
- Deuteronomy 13:8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
- Deuteronomy 20:10–11 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. …
- Joshua 6:17–25 And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. …
- Joshua 8:24 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
- Joshua 9:18–21 And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes. …
- Joshua 9:24 And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
- Joshua 10:24–25 And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them. …
- Joshua 10:28 And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did unto the king of Jericho.
- Joshua 10:30 And the LORD delivered it also, and the king thereof, into the hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain in it; but did unto the king thereof as he did unto the king of Jericho.
- Joshua 10:32 And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah.
- Joshua 10:40 So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.
- Joshua 10:42 And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.
- Joshua 11:11–12 And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire. …
- Joshua 21:44 And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to all that he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.
- Judges 1:4 And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men.
- 2 Samuel 21:2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
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Topics
- Alliances With idolaters forbidden
- Canaanites Given to the Israelites
- Company Evil
- Fellowship With the wicked forbidden
- Judgments Upon the Canaanites
- Obligation A motive of obedience
Timeline
- Timeline of the Bible1491–1451 BC · Israel in the Wilderness
Bible Dictionary
Hebrew and Strong’s
- And when the LORD יְהוָה yhwh יְהֹוָה Proper name
- thy God אֱלֹהֶיךָ ʾĕlōhêkā אֱלֹהִים Noun · masculine plural construct · with suffix: second person masculine singular
- shall deliver וּנְתָנָם ûnĕtānām נָתַן Verb · qal sequential perfect, third person masculine singular · with and, suffix: third person masculine plural
- them before לְפָנֶיךָ lĕpānêkā פָּנִים Noun · masculine or feminine plural construct · with preposition, suffix: second person masculine singular
- thee; thou shalt smite וְהִכִּיתָם wĕhikkîtām נָכָה Verb · hiphil sequential perfect, second person masculine singular · with and, suffix: third person masculine plural
- them, and utterly הַחֲרֵם haḥărēm חָרַם Verb · hiphil infinitive absolute
- destroy תַּחֲרִים taḥărîm חָרַם Verb · hiphil imperfect, second person masculine singular
- them; thou shalt make תִכְרֹת tikrōt כָּרַת Verb · qal imperfect, second person masculine singular
- no covenant אֹתָם ʾōtām Object marker · with suffix: third person masculine plural לֹא lōʾ Negative לָהֶם lāhem Preposition · with suffix: third person masculine plural בְּרִית bĕrît בְּרִית Noun · feminine singular וְלֹא wĕlōʾ Negative · with and
- with them, nor shew mercy תְחָנֵּם tĕḥānnēm חָנַן Verb · qal imperfect, second person masculine singular · with suffix: third person masculine plural
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