Deuteronomio 7:2

2 Cuando el Señor
tu Dios las entregue en tus manos y las conquistes, debes destruirlas por completo.
No hagas tratados con ellas ni les tengas compasión.

Deuteronomio 7:2 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 7:2

And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee
Into their hands:

thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them;
men, women, and children; which was ordered not merely to make way and room for the people of Israel to inherit their land, but as a punishment for capital crimes they had been guilty of, such as idolatry, incest, murder wherefore though they were reprieved for a while for Israel's sake, till their time was come to possess the land, they were at length righteously punished; which observed, abates the seeming severity exercised upon them:

thou shalt make no covenant with them;
to dwell in their cities and houses, and enjoy their lands and estates, on any condition whatever; and though they did make a league with the Gibeonites, that was obtained by fraud, they pretending not to be of the land of Canaan, but to come from a very distant country:

nor show mercy unto them;
by sparing their lives, bestowing any favours upon them, or giving them any help and assistance when in distress: the Jews extend this to all other Heathen nations besides these seven; wherefore, if an Israelite, as Maimonides ^F26 says, should see a Gentile perishing, or plunged into a river, he may not take him out, nor administer medicine to a sick person. Hence Juvenal ^F1 the poet upbraids them with their unkindness and incivility; and says that Moses delivered it as a Jewish law, in a secret volume of his, perhaps referring to this book of Deuteronomy, that the Jews might not direct a poor traveller in his way unless he was one of their religion, nor one athirst to a fountain of water; and which led Tacitus ^F2, the Heathen historian, to make this remark upon them, that they entertained an hostile hatred against all other people.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 Hilchot Abodath Cochabim, c. 10. sect. 1, 2.
F1 "Non monstrare vias" Satyr 14.
F2 Hist l. 5. c. 5.

Deuteronomio 7:2 In-Context

1 El privilegio de la santidad
»Cuando el Señor
tu Dios te lleve dentro de la tierra donde estás a punto de entrar y que vas a poseer, él te abrirá camino quitando de tu paso a muchas naciones: los hititas, los gergeseos, los amorreos, los cananeos, los ferezeos, los heveos y los jebuseos. Esas siete naciones son más fuertes y numerosas que tú.

2 Cuando el Señor
tu Dios las entregue en tus manos y las conquistes, debes destruirlas por completo.
No hagas tratados con ellas ni les tengas compasión.

3 No te unas en matrimonio con su gente. No permitas que tus hijas ni tus hijos se casen con los hijos o las hijas de esas naciones,

4 porque ellos harán que tus hijos y tus hijas se aparten de mí para rendir culto a otros dioses. Entonces el enojo del Señor
arderá contra ti, y pronto te destruirá.

5 Lo que tienes que hacer es: destruir sus altares paganos, hacer pedazos sus columnas sagradas, derribar sus postes dedicados a la diosa Asera y quemar sus ídolos.