Deuteronômio 7:2

2 e quando o Senhor teu Deus tas tiver entregue, e as ferires, totalmente as destruirás; não farás com elas pacto algum, nem terás piedade delas;

Deuteronômio 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.

Deuteronômio 7:2 In-Context

1 Quando o Senhor teu Deus te houver introduzido na terra a que vais a fim de possuí-la, e tiver lançado fora de diante de ti muitas nações, a saber, os heteus, os girgaseus, os amorreus, os cananeus, os perizeus, os heveus e os jebuseus, sete nações mais numerosas e mais poderosas do que tu;

2 e quando o Senhor teu Deus tas tiver entregue, e as ferires, totalmente as destruirás; não farás com elas pacto algum, nem terás piedade delas;

3 não contrairás com elas matrimônios; não darás tuas filhas a seus filhos, e não tomarás suas filhas para teus filhos;

4 pois fariam teus filhos desviarem-se de mim, para servirem a outros deuses; e a ira do Senhor se acenderia contra vós, e depressa vos consumiria.

5 Mas assim lhes fareis: Derrubareis os seus altares, quebrareis as suas colunas, cortareis os seus aserins, e queimareis a fogo as suas imagens esculpidas.