The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. Translated according to the Ebrue and Greke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languges. VVith moste profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance as may appeare in the epistle to the reader

CHAP. VII.

1 The Israélites may make no couenant with the Gentiles 5 They must destroy the idoles. 8 The election depēdeth on the freloue of God. 19. The experience of the power of God ought to cōsirme vs. 25 To auoide all occasion of 〈◊〉〈◊〉

1 WHen the Lord thy God shal bring thee into the lād whither thou goest to possesse it, * and shal roote out manie* 1.1 nations before thee: the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Ca naánites, and the Perizzites, and the Hiui∣tes, and the Iebusites, seuen nacions grea ter and mightier then thou.

2 And the Lord thy God shal giue thema 1.2 be∣fore thee, then thou shalt smite thē: thou shalt vtterly destroy thē: thou shalt make no * couenant with them, nor haue com∣passion* 1.3 on them.

3 Nether shalt thou make mariages with thē, nether giue thy daughter vnto his sō∣ne nor take his daughter vnto thy sonne.

4 For“ 1.4 they wil cause thy sonne to turne a way from me, and to serue other gods: thē wil the wrath of the Lord waxe hote a gainst you and destroy thee sodenly.

5 But thus ye shal deale with them,b 1.5 Ye shal ouerthrowe their altars, & breake downe their pillers, and ye shal cut downe their groues, and burne their grauen images with fire.* 1.6

6 * For thou art an holy people vnto the* 1.7 Lord thy God, * the Lord thy God hathe* 1.8 chosen thee, to be a precious people vnto him selfe, aboue all people that are vpon the earth.

7 The lord did not set his loue vpon you, nor chose you, because ye were mo in nomber then anie people: for ye were the fewest of all people.

8 But because the Lordc 1.9 loued you, and be∣cause he wolde kepe the othe which he had sworne vnto your fathers, the Lord ha the broght you out by a mighty hād and deliuered you out of the house of bondage from the hand of Pharaóh King of Egypt

9 That thou maiest knowe,d 1.10 that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God which kepeth couenant and mercie vnto them that loue him and kepe his commande∣ments (euen) to a thousand generacions,

10 And rewardethe 1.11 them to their face that hate him, to bring them to destruction he wil not deferre to rewarde him that ha∣teth him, to his face.

11 Kepe thou therefore the commandemēts and the ordinances, and the lawes, which I commande thee this day to do them.

12 〈◊〉〈◊〉 For if ye hearken vnto these lawes, and obserue and do them, then the Lord thy God shal kepe with thee the couenant, & thef 1.12 mercy which he sware vnto thy fa∣thers.

13 And he willoue thee, and blesse thee, and multiplie thee: he wil also blesse the frute of thy wombe, and the frute of thy land: thy corne and thy wine, and thine oyle & the increase of thy kine, and the flockes of thy shepe in the land, which he sware vnto thy fathers to giue thee.

14 Thou shalt be blessed aboue all people, * there shalbe nether male nor female ba∣ren* 1.13 among you, nor among your cattel.

15 Moreouer, the Lord wil take away from thee all in firmities, and wil put none of the euil diseases of * Egypt [which thou knowest] vpon thee, but wil send thē vpō* 1.14 all that hate thee.

16 Thou shalt therefore consume all people: which the Lord thy God shal giue thee:g 1.15 thine eie shal not spare thē, nether shalt thou serue their gods, for that shal be thy * destruction.

17 If thou say in thine heart, These nacions are mo then I how can I cast them out?

18 Thou shalt not feare them (but) remem∣ber what the Lord thy God did vnto Pha∣raóh, and vnto all Egypt:

19 The great“ 1.16 tentacions which thine eyes sa we, and the signes and wonders, and the mightie hand and stretched out arme, whe reby the Lord thy God broght thee out:

so shal the Lord thy God do vnto all the people, whose face thou fearest.

20 * Moreouer, the Lord thy God wil send* 1.17 h 1.18 homettes amōg them vntil they that are* 1.19 left, and hide them selues from thee, be de stroied.

21 Thou shalt not feare them: for the Lord thy God (is) amōg you, a God mighty and dreadful.

22 Andth Lord thy God wil roote out these nacions before thee by litle and litle: thou maist not consume them at once, lest the i 1.20 beastes of the field increase vpon thee.

23 But the Lord thy God shal giue them befo re thee, and shal destroy thē with a mighty destruction, vntil they be broght to noght

24 And he shal deliuer their Kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from vnder heauen: there shal no man be able to stand before thee, vntil thou hast destroied them.

25 The grauen images of their gods shal ye* 1.21 burne with fire (and) * couet not the siluer* 1.22 and golde (that is) on them nor take it vn to thee, lest thou k 1.23 be snared there with: for it is an a bominacion (before) the Lord thy God.

26 Bring not therefore abominacion into thine house, lest thou be accursed like it, (but) vtterly abhorre it, & counte it moste* 1.24 * 1.25 abominable: for it is * accursed.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Chap. 31. 8.
• a 1.2

  Into thy 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.3

  〈◊〉〈◊〉. 23. 32. & 34. 12.
• “ 1.4

  Or, anie of thē,
• b 1.5

  God wolde 〈◊〉〈◊〉 his seruice pu∣re without all 〈◊〉〈◊〉 cere∣monies and super 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.6

  Chap. 14. 2. & 26. 8.
• * 1.7

  Exod. 19. 5.
• * 1.8

  1 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 2. 9.
• c 1.9

  Frely, finding no cause in you more then in others so to do.
• d 1.10

  And so 〈◊〉〈◊〉 dif∣ference betwene him and idoles.
• e 1.11

  Meaning, ma∣nifestly, or in this life.
• f 1.12

  This 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it grounded vpō his fregrace ther fore in recom∣pensing their obe dience he hathe respect to his mer cie and not to their merites.
• * 1.13

  Exod. 23. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.14

  Exod. 9. 14.
• g 1.15

  VVe ought 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to be merciful where God com¦mādeth seuericie Exod. 23. 33.
• “ 1.16

  Or plagues, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 trials, as Chap. 29. 3. Exod. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 & 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.17

  Exod. 23. 28.
• h 1.18

  There is not so smale a creature, which I wil not arme to fight on thy side against them.
• * 1.19

  iosh. 24. 12.
• i 1.20

  So that it is your commoditie that God accomplish not his 〈◊〉〈◊〉 so sone as you wol de wish.
• * 1.21

  Iosh. 7. 1.
• * 1.22

  2. mat. 12. 40.
• k 1.23

  And be inti∣sed to idolattie.
• * 1.24

  Leuit 27. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.25

  〈◊〉〈◊〉. 21. 3.