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Deuteronomy 7 Bible study: Because the LORD loves you
The LORD didn't choose Israel for being many; they were "the fewest of all peoples" (7:7); in Hebrew, "fewest" is the word of "little by little" (7:22). He chose them "because the LORD loves you" and to keep his oath (7:8), and he keeps loving kindness "to a thousand generations" (7:9).
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“Know therefore that the LORD your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness to a thousand generations with those who love him and keep his commandments,”
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“In Deuteronomy 7, Moses says the LORD did not choose Israel because they were more in number than any people.”
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What's really going on
Many nations, the fewest people
The chapter opens with numbers. The LORD "casts out many nations before you", "seven nations greater and mightier than you" (7:1). Then Moses says, "The LORD didn’t set his love on you nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples" (7:7). In Hebrew, "many" and "greater" in 7:1 are the same word, rabbim, and it comes back in the fear Moses answers: "These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?" (7:17). The reason for the choosing is not size: "but because the LORD loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers" (7:8). Moses has said it before: "Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them" (4:37). And two chapters on he rules out another reason: "Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart do you go in to possess their land" (9:5).
Where it leads to Jesus
A people for his own possession
Deuteronomy 7:6leads toTitus 2:14
Moses tells Israel, "The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession" (7:6), and says the LORD "redeemed you out of the house of bondage" (7:8). Paul writes of "Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people for his own possession" (Titus 2:13-14). Paul doesn't say where his words come from, and "a people for his own possession" is also in 14:2 and 26:18, so this is a reading. One reading hears this chapter in Titus: the LORD who redeemed Israel to be his own people, and Jesus who redeems a people for himself. Another reads Titus as describing what Jesus has done in familiar Bible words, without pointing to this chapter.
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The rest of Deuteronomy 7 is waiting in Favor
- The danger the chapter names: their gods
- To a thousand generations
- "Little by little"
- The same words in later prayers
- "Nor take it for yourself"
- 13 questions as you read
- 13 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
- Your notes, saved as you go
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The Hebrew word behind it
חָשַׁקchashaqsay kha-SHAK
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "be attached to, love". Strong's: "to cling, i.e. join, (figuratively) to love, delight in". "The LORD didn’t set his love on you nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people" (7:7). Moses uses it again three chapters on, beside ahav, "love": "Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them" (10:15), where "had a delight" is this word. A psalm uses it: "Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him" (Psalm 91:14).
For your group
Deuteronomy 7 Bible study questions
- 1The LORD didn't choose Israel for their size, and Moses later says not for their righteousness either (7:7-8; 9:5), "but because the LORD loves you" (7:8). Where do you still find yourself trying to earn a love you've already been given?
- 2"These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?" (7:17). What in your life feels "more than I" right now, and what would it look like to "remember well" (7:18) what God has already done?
- 3The LORD said he would drive out the nations "little by little", and gave a reason: "lest the animals of the field increase on you" (7:22). Where are you waiting on something that is coming slower than you'd like?
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