Deuteronomy 7:6-26

Deuteronomy 7:6-26

[6] For thou art an holy  people  unto the LORD  thy God:  the LORD  thy God  hath chosen  thee to be a special  people  that are upon the face  of the earth.  [7] The LORD  did not set his love  upon you, nor choose  you, because ye were more  in number than any people;  for ye were the fewest  of all people:  [8] But because the LORD  loved  you, and because he would keep  the oath  which he had sworn  unto your fathers,  hath the LORD  brought you out  with a mighty  hand,  and redeemed  you out of the house  of bondmen,  from the hand  of Pharaoh  king  of Egypt.  [9] Know  therefore that the LORD  thy God,  the faithful  God,  which keepeth  covenant  and mercy  with them that love  him and keep  his commandments  to a thousand  generations;  [10] And repayeth  them that hate  him to their face,  to destroy  them: he will not be slack  to him that hateth  him, he will repay  him to his face.  [11] Thou shalt therefore keep  the commandments,  and the statutes,  and the judgments,  which I command  thee this day,  to do  them. [12] Wherefore it shall come to pass, if  ye hearken  to these judgments,  and keep,  and do  them, that the LORD  thy God  shall keep  unto thee the covenant  and the mercy  which he sware  unto thy fathers:  [13] And he will love  thee, and bless  thee, and multiply  thee: he will also bless  the fruit  of thy womb,  and the fruit  of thy land,  thy corn,  and thy wine,  and thine oil,  the increase  of thy kine,  and the flocks  of thy sheep,  in the land  which he sware  unto thy fathers  to give  thee. [14] Thou shalt be blessed  above all people:  there shall not be male  among you, or among your cattle.  [15] And the LORD  will take away  from thee all sickness,  and will put  none of the evil  diseases  of Egypt,  which thou knowest,  upon thee; but will lay  them upon all them that hate  thee. [16] And thou shalt consume  all the people  which the LORD  thy God  shall deliver  thee; thine eye  shall have no pity  upon them: neither shalt thou serve  their gods;  for that will be a snare  unto thee. [17] If thou shalt say  in thine heart,  These nations  are more  than I; how  can  I dispossess  [18] Thou shalt not be afraid  of them: but shalt well  what the LORD  thy God  did  unto Pharaoh,  and unto all Egypt;  [19] The great  temptations  which thine eyes  saw,  and the signs,  and the wonders,  and the mighty  hand,  and the stretched out  arm,  whereby the LORD  thy God  brought thee out:  so shall the LORD  thy God  do  unto all the people  of whom thou art afraid.  [20] Moreover the LORD  thy God  will send  the hornet  among them, until they that are left,  and hide  themselves from  thee, be destroyed.  [21] Thou shalt not be affrighted  at  them: for the LORD  thy God  is among  you, a mighty  God  and terrible.  [22] And the LORD  thy God  will put out  those  nations  before  thee by little  thou mayest  not consume  them at once,  lest the beasts  of the field  increase  [23] But the LORD  thy God  shall deliver  them unto thee,  them with a mighty  destruction,  until they be destroyed.  [24] And he shall deliver  their kings  into thine hand,  and thou shalt destroy  their name  from under heaven:  there shall no man  be able to stand  before  thee, until thou have destroyed  [25] The graven images  of their gods  shall ye burn  with fire:  thou shalt not desire  the silver  or gold  that is on them, nor take  it unto thee, lest thou be snared  therein: for it is an abomination  to the LORD  thy God.  [26] Neither shalt thou bring  an abomination  into thine house,  lest thou be a cursed thing  like it: but thou shalt utterly  it, and thou shalt utterly  it; for it is a cursed thing.