Deuteronomy 7: Driving out the Nations
Deuteronomy: Part 7 of 34
Driving Out the Nations
1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—
You should thank your god that you aren’t one of those poor people who are being killed for no reason other than to get you to cower in fear and praise him.
2 and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.
And yet he calls himself a merciful god. How is this obeying the Sixth Commandment?
3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
4 for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods, and the LORD’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you.
They probably wouldn’t if you really were a loving and merciful god instead of a loveless and merciless god.
5 This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire.
Barbaric.
6 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.
Yeah, playing favourites. That’s not a nice thing to teach people.
7 The LORD did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.
8 But it was because the LORD loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
That still doesn’t explain why he chose them in the first place.
9 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.
This ‘thousand generations’ bit is just a load of bullshit. He’ll stop loving and looking after the first generation to give up on him and stop worrying about doing everything he asks. What he’s really saying is he’ll look after you and your offspring as long as you bow down and kiss his backside everyday of your life, but if you don’t you’re freaking dead. Buzzard bait. He’d do you in as soon as you did something he didn’t like.
10 But those who hate him he will repay to their face by destruction; he will not be slow to repay to their face those who hate him.
See?
11 Therefore, take care to follow the commands, decrees and laws I give you today.
12 If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the LORD your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your ancestors.
13 He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land—your grain, new wine and olive oil—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.
Increasing your numbers again. Diddling your women. Pervert.
14 You will be blessed more than any other people; none of your men or women will be childless, nor will any of your livestock be without young.
Ok, leaving that one alone and moving on…
15 The LORD will keep you free from every disease. He will not inflict on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but he will inflict them on all who hate you.
If he is going to keep you free from disease, then how come all the laws covering diseases earlier?
16 You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God gives over to you. Do not look on them with pity and do not serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
No pity, no love, no mercy. That’s the God I’ve come to know and hate.
17 You may say to yourselves, “These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?”
18 But do not be afraid of them; remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.
Yeah, he shat on them from a great height and called it good.
19 You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand and outstretched arm, with which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.
If that is so, then how come the Israelite people have suffered so much hardship ever since?
20 Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet among them until even the survivors who hide from you have perished.
Still hasn’t happened.
21 Do not be terrified by them, for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God.
Yeah, so awesome he can’t protect his ‘chosen’ against suicide bombers. Not that omnipotent now are you dude?
22 The LORD your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little. You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you.
If you really were so powerful as you keep on saying, then why not kill some of the wild animals as well? <sounds of crickets>
23 But the LORD your God will deliver them over to you, throwing them into great confusion until they are destroyed.
24 He will give their kings into your hand, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand up against you; you will destroy them.
Hasn’t happened.
25 The images of their gods you are to burn in the fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the LORD your God.
If that were true you wouldn’t have had so much gold etc used in that idiotic temple and ark you had them build for you. Vanity, they name is God.
26 Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. Regard it as vile and utterly detest it, for it is set apart for destruction.
This really shows how backward this idiotic book really is. Things, items, objects, are NOT vile or evil or detestable. They are just objects. The crap this book projects onto items comes from the minds of delusional fools. It is all mind made and can be undone the same way.
The more I read of this book, the more I despair for the future of this planet unless we legislate to keep religion out of government, education and the rest of the public sphere. Let the delusional go to church and bible study, but keep it away from the rest of us.