IDuteronomi 7:22

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

22 UYehova uThixo wakho uya kuzinyothula ezi ntlanga ebusweni bakho, kancinane, kancinane. Akuyi kuba nako ukuziphelisa kamsinya, hleze ande akongamele amarhamncwa asendle.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

put out: Heb. pluck off

thou mayest: As the Israelites were not yet sufficiently numerous to fill the whole land occupied by these nations; and as wild and ferocious animals might be expected to multiply where the place was but thinly peopled, therefore God informs them that their extermination from before them should be gradual. Haynes says, "The approaching to Cana, at the close of the day, as we did, is at once terrifying and dangerous. The surrounding country swarms with wild beasts, such as tigers, leopards, jackals, etc., whose cries and howling, I doubt not, would strike the boldest traveller, who had not been frequently in a like situation, with the deepest sense of horror." Exodus 23:29, Exodus 23:30, Joshua 15:63

Reciprocal: Exodus 33:2 - the Canaanite Deuteronomy 11:23 - General Deuteronomy 28:63 - plucked from Joshua 21:44 - General Judges 3:1 - the nations Psalms 59:13 - Consume Proverbs 2:22 - rooted

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little,.... Which is observed for their encouragement, who seeing that all were not destroyed at once, might fear the work would never be thoroughly accomplished; see Exodus 23:30,

thou mayest not consume them at once; though it was in the power of their hands to do it, there being some wise reasons for sparing them awhile, at least for not cutting them off all at once, and one follows:

lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee; through so many places being waste without inhabitants, and there being none to destroy these creatures; and who therefore in course would become more numerous, and so more troublesome and distressing to the Israelites. The Targum of Jonathan adds, by way of explanation,

"when they shall come to devour their carcasses,''

the carcasses of the slain Canaanites; who, if destroyed at once, would be so many, that they would lie unburied, which would invite the beasts of the field to come out of their lurking places to feed upon them, and which might lead them on to mischief among the Israelites.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 7:22. Put out those nations - by little and little — The Israelites were not as yet sufficiently numerous to fill the whole land occupied by the seven nations mentioned Deuteronomy 7:1. And as wild and ferocious animals might be expected to multiply where either there are no inhabitants, or the place is but thinly peopled, therefore God tells them that, though at present, by force of arms, they might be able to expel them, it would be impolitic so to do, lest the beasts of the field should multiply upon them.