Deuteronomy 7:26
in Deuteronomy 7And you must not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house, and become a devoted thing like unto it: thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
KJV
Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 7
Commentary
6 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
You must burn up the images of their gods
on Deuteronomy 7:25-26
The silver and gold on the images is forbidden, "or you will be ensnared by it", and Achan's gold from Jericho at Joshua 7:21 is the case in point. Barnes reads Romans 2:22 as an allusion to this command. The chapter closes on herem, "set apart for destruction", the root of "devote them to complete destruction" at verse 2, so the devoted thing and its keeper fall under one term.
This site's exposition
any detestable thing into your house
The verse carries the ban from the battlefield into the home, where a single kept object would bring its owner under the same sentence as the object. Two verbs are doubled for the attitude asked, utterly detest and abhor it. Matthew Henry reads them as a holy indignation in which those who love God hate what he hates.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thy house,....
The promise of God's favour to them, if they would be obedient, is enlarged upon with a most affecting copiousness and fluency of expression, which intimates how much it is both God's desire and our own interest that we be religious. All possible assurance is here given them, 1. That, if they would sincerely endeavour to do their part of the covenant, God would certainly perform his part.
The idols which the heathen had worshipped were an abomination to God, and therefore must be so to them: all that truly love God hat what he hates. Observe how this is urged upon them: Thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; such a holy indignation as this must we conceive against sin, that abominable thing which the Lord hates.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
That people accordingly were truly happy as a nation, and found every promise which the faithful God made to them amply fulfilled, so long as they adhered to that obedience which was required of them.
The words behind it
15 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְלֹא־ | velo'- | and not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תָבִ֤יא | tavi' | you will bring | H935 → | 2568 times |
| תֽוֹעֵבָה֙ | toevah | an abomination | H8441 → | 117 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | into | H413 → | 5510 times |
| בֵּיתֶ֔ךָ | beitekha | house your | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| וְהָיִ֥יתָ | vehayita | and you will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| חֵ֖רֶם | cherem | an object for destruction | H2764 → | 38 times |
| כָּמֹ֑הוּ | kamohu | like it | H3644 → | 143 times |
| שַׁקֵּ֧ץ׀ | shaketz | utterly <detest> | H8262 → | |
| תְּשַׁקְּצֶ֛נּוּ | teshakketzenu | you will detest it | H8262 → | |
| וְתַעֵ֥ב׀ | vetaev | and utterly <abhor> | H8581 → | 22 times |
| תְּֽתַעֲבֶ֖נּוּ | tetaavenu | you will abhor it | H8581 → | 22 times |
| כִּי־ | ki- | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| חֵ֥רֶם | cherem | [is] an object for destruction | H2764 → | 38 times |
| הֽוּא׃ פ | hu' | it | H1931 → | 1879 times |
וְלֹא־and not
velo'-H3808 →5168 times
תָבִ֤יאyou will bring
tavi'H935 →2568 times
תֽוֹעֵבָה֙an abomination
toevahH8441 →117 times
אֶל־into
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
בֵּיתֶ֔ךָhouse your
beitekhaH1004 →2046 times
וְהָיִ֥יתָand you will be
vehayitaH1961 →3559 times
חֵ֖רֶםan object for destruction
cheremH2764 →38 times
כָּמֹ֑הוּlike it
kamohuH3644 →143 times
שַׁקֵּ֧ץ׀utterly <detest>
shaketzH8262 →
תְּשַׁקְּצֶ֛נּוּyou will detest it
teshakketzenuH8262 →
וְתַעֵ֥ב׀and utterly <abhor>
vetaevH8581 →22 times
תְּֽתַעֲבֶ֖נּוּyou will abhor it
tetaavenuH8581 →22 times
כִּי־for
ki-H3588 →4482 times
חֵ֥רֶם[is] an object for destruction
cheremH2764 →38 times
הֽוּא׃ פit
hu'H1931 →1879 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Hosea 14:8O Ephraim, what have I to do anymore with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your fruit comes from Me.
it leads to
- Job 34:32
Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.’
- James 1:17
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
- Job 34:32
Through
Isaiah 30:22So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”
it leads to
- Isaiah 31:7
For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.
- Judges 17:3–4
And when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I wholly dedicate the silver to the LORD for my son’s benefit, to make a graven image and…
- Isaiah 46:6
They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.
- Zechariah 13:2
And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and…
- Isaiah 31:7
Through
Ezekiel 11:18When they return to it, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 37:23
They will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned, and I will cleanse…
- Ezekiel 5:11
Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon…
- Ezekiel 37:23
About Deuteronomy
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.