Deuteronomy 7:5–25

⁵But thus you shall deal with them: you shall ^hdestroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their ¹wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.

⁶“For you are a ²holy people to the Lord your God; ⁱthe Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. ⁷The Lord did not set His ^jlove on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were ^kthe least of all peoples; ⁸but ^lbecause the Lord loves you, and because He would keep ^mthe oath which He swore to your fathers, ⁿthe Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of ³bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

⁹“Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, ^othe faithful God ^pwho keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments; ¹⁰and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not ⁴be ^qslack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face. ¹¹Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.

Blessings of Obedience

¹²“Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers. ¹³And He will ^rlove you and bless you and ⁵multiply you; ^sHe will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He ⁶swore to your fathers to give you. ¹⁴You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female ^tbarren among you or among your livestock. ¹⁵And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the ^uterrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you. ¹⁶Also you shall ⁷destroy all the peoples whom the Lord your God delivers over to you; your eye shall have no pity on them; nor shall you serve their gods, for that will ^vbe a snare to you.

¹⁷“If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?’—¹⁸you shall not be afraid of them, but you shall ^wremember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt: ^19xthe great trials which your eyes saw, the signs and the wonders, the mighty hand and the outstretched arm, by which the Lord your God brought you out. So shall the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. ^20yMoreover the Lord your God will send the hornet among them until those who are left, who hide themselves from you, are destroyed. ²¹You shall not be terrified of them; for the Lord your God, the great and awesome God, is among you. ²²And the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you ^zlittle by little; you will be unable to ⁸destroy them at once, lest the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. ²³But the Lord your God will deliver them over to you, and will inflict defeat upon them until they are destroyed. ²⁴And ^aHe will deliver their kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name from under heaven; ^bno one shall be able to stand ⁹against you until you have destroyed them. ²⁵You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you shall not ^ccovet ¹the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it; for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.