Deuteronomio 7:1-4

1 Cuando el SEÑOR tu Dios te haya introducido en la tierra donde vas a entrar para poseerla y haya echado de delante de ti a muchas naciones: los heteos, los gergeseos, los amorreos, los cananeos, los ferezeos, los heveos y los jebuseos, siete naciones más grandes y más poderosas que tú,

2 y cuando el SEÑOR tu Dios los haya entregado delante de ti, y los hayas derrotado, los destruirás por completo. No harás alianza con ellos ni te apiadarás de ellos.

3 Y no contraerás matrimonio con ellos; no darás tus hijas a sus hijos, ni tomarás sus hijas para tus hijos.

4 Porque ellos apartarán a tus hijos de seguirme para servir a otros dioses; entonces la ira del SEÑOR se encenderá contra ti, y El pronto te destruirá.

Deuteronomio 7:1-4 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 7

In this chapter the Israelites are exhorted to destroy the seven nations of the land of Canaan, when they entered into it, and to make no alliances with them of any kind, nor suffer any remains of idolatry to continue, De 7:1-5 to observe which, and other commands of God, they are urged from the consideration of their being freely chosen of God above all other people, and of their being redeemed out of the house of bondage, and of the Lord's being a covenant keeping God to them, De 7:6-11 and it is promised them, for their further encouragement to keep the commands of God, that they should have an increase of all temporal good things, and no evils and calamities should come upon them, De 6:12-16, and, lest they should be disheartened at the numbers and might of their enemies, they are put in mind of what God had done for them in Egypt, and of what he had promised to do for them now, De 7:17-20 and they are assured that the nations should be cast out before them by little and little, until they were utterly destroyed, De 7:21-24 and the chapter is concluded with an exhortation to destroy their images, and not admit anything of that sort to be brought into their houses, De 7:25,26.