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NASB | Deuteronomy 7:2 and when the LORD your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Deuteronomy 7:2 and when the LORD your God gives them over to you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall not make a covenant (treaty) with them nor show mercy and compassion to them. |
Subject: How do we open eyes to truth? |
Bible Note: God did not send the Israelites to war because they were self righteous or because they were good, this is why he did it. He was taking Israel to the promised land which was occupied by wicked, savaged people who used to kill and offer their sons and daughters to false idols, and he said to Israel: "Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities and great fortified up to heaven, "a people great and tall, the descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, 'who can stand before the descendants of Anak? "Therefore understand today that the Lord your God is He who goes over before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and bring them down before you; so you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the Lord has said to you. "Do not think in your heart, after the Lord your God has cast them out before you, saying 'Because of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess this land; but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out from before you. "It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out from before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. "Therefore understand that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your rightousness for you are a stiff-necked people. Deuteronomy 9:1-6 God himself led all these wars and fought for Israel to punish the wicked and to fulfill his promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He stopped after he fulfill his promise. At the same time he gave Israel the 10 commandments and told them not to kill. God can kill if he wants to, he is God he can do whatever he wants to, God gave Satan permission to do evil against Job, and his wife told him to curse God and die for the evil God was doing to him. "Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? Curse God, and die. But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips." Job 2:9-10 but he can also tell us not to kill, because we are not Gods, we are his children. And if he says Do not Kill, then we do not kill as obedients children of our father. "Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, "you shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not bear false witness," You shall not covet," and if there is any other commandments, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Love does not harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. Romans 13:8-10 Tim, We do not Kill. God can if he feels like it. He is God. He has his own reasons and we are not to judge him. "Judge not, that you be not judged. "For with what judgement you judge, you will be judged: and with the same measure you use, it will be measured back to you" "And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Matthew 7:1-4 |