申命记 7:6

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

“因為你是歸耶和華你的　神作聖潔的子民的；耶和華你的　神從地上的萬族中，揀選了你作他自己的產業，自己的子民。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
因 为 你 归 耶 和 华 ─ 你 　 神 为 圣 洁 的 民 ； 耶 和 华 ─ 你 　 神 从 地 上 的 万 民 中 拣 选 你 ， 特 作 自 己 的 子 民 。

Contextual Overview

¹ The Lord your God will bring you into the land that you are entering and that you will have as your own. As you go in, he will force out these nations: the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—seven nations that are stronger than you. ² The Lord your God will hand these nations over to you, and when you defeat them, you must destroy them completely. Do not make a peace treaty with them or show them any mercy. ³ Do not marry any of them, or let your daughters marry their sons, or let your sons marry their daughters. ⁴ If you do, those people will turn your children away from me, to begin serving other gods. Then the Lord will be very angry with you, and he will quickly destroy you. ⁵ This is what you must do to those people: Tear down their altars, smash their holy stone pillars, cut down their Asherah idols, and burn their idols in the fire. ⁶ You are holy people who belong to the Lord your God. He has chosen you from all the people on earth to be his very own. ⁷ The Lord did not care for you and choose you because there were many of you—you are the smallest nation of all. ⁸ But the Lord chose you because he loved you, and he kept his promise to your ancestors. So he brought you out of Egypt by his great power and freed you from the land of slavery, from the power of the king of Egypt. ⁹ So know that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God. He will keep his agreement of love for a thousand lifetimes for people who love him and obey his commands. ¹⁰ But he will pay back those people who hate him. He will destroy them, and he will not be slow to pay back those who hate him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

an holy: Deuteronomy 14:2, Deuteronomy 26:19, Deuteronomy 28:9, Exodus 19:5, Exodus 19:6, Psalms 50:5, Jeremiah 2:3, Amos 3:2, 1 Corinthians 6:19, 1 Corinthians 6:20, Titus 2:14, 1 Peter 2:5, 1 Peter 2:9

to be a special: Malachi 3:17, Titus 2:14

Reciprocal: Exodus 6:7 - will take Leviticus 20:24 - which Leviticus 20:26 - severed Deuteronomy 26:18 - And the Deuteronomy 29:13 - establish Deuteronomy 33:3 - all his saints 1 Samuel 8:20 - General 1 Kings 3:8 - thy people 1 Kings 8:53 - separate 1 Chronicles 16:13 - his chosen 1 Chronicles 17:22 - thy people Ezra 9:2 - the holy seed Psalms 33:12 - people Psalms 47:4 - whom Psalms 105:6 - his chosen Psalms 106:5 - may see Psalms 135:4 - the Lord Psalms 149:2 - rejoice Isaiah 41:8 - thou Isaiah 43:4 - precious Isaiah 44:1 - O Jacob Isaiah 62:12 - The holy Isaiah 63:18 - people Ezekiel 16:8 - thy time Ezekiel 20:5 - In the Daniel 12:7 - the holy Hosea 3:1 - according Malachi 1:2 - I have Matthew 20:15 - it Acts 13:17 - God Romans 9:4 - are Israelites Ephesians 1:4 - as 1 Peter 1:2 - Elect

Cross-References

Genesis 5:32
After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 8:13
When Noah was six hundred and one years old, in the first day of the first month of that year, the water was dried up from the land. Noah removed the covering of the boat and saw that the land was dry.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God,.... Not sanctified in a spiritual sense, or having principles of grace and holiness in them, from whence holy actions sprang, at least not all of them; but they were separated from all other people in the world to the pure worship and service of God in an external manner, and therefore were to avoid all idolatry, and every appearance of it:

the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself above all people that are upon the face of the earth; for special service and worship, and to enjoy special privileges and benefits, civil and religious; though they were not chosen to special grace here, and eternal glory hereafter; at least not all of them, only a remnant, according to the election of grace; yet they were typical of the chosen people of God in a special sense; who are chosen out of the world to be a peculiar people, to be holy here and happy hereafter; to enjoy communion with God in this life and that to come, as well as to serve and glorify him now and for evermore.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See Deuteronomy 6:10 note.

Deuteronomy 7:5

Their groves - Render, their idols of wood: the reference is to the wooden trunk used as a representation of Ashtaroth; see Deuteronomy 7:13 and Exodus 34:13 note.

Deuteronomy 7:7

The fewest of all people - God chose for Himself Israel, when as yet but a single family, or rather a single person, Abraham; though there were already numerous nations and powerful kingdoms in the earth. Increase Deuteronomy 1:10; Deuteronomy 10:22 had taken place because of the very blessing of God spoken of in Deuteronomy 7:8.

Deuteronomy 7:10

Repayeth them that hate him to their face - i. e., punishes His enemies in their own proper persons.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 7:6. Thou art a holy people — And therefore should have no connection with the workers of iniquity.

A special people — סגלה segullah, - Septuagint, λαον περιουσιον, - a peculiar people, a private property. The words as they stand in the Septuagint are quoted by the apostle, Deuteronomy 7:1; Deuteronomy 2:9.