11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
11 Therefore, take care to follow the commands, decrees and laws I give you today.
11 You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.
11 So keep the command and the rules and regulations that I command you today. Do them.
11 Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.
11 Therefore, you must obey all these commands, decrees, and regulations I am giving you today.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 7:11
Commentary on Deuteronomy 7:1-11
(Read Deuteronomy 7:1-11)
Here is a strict caution against all friendship and fellowship with idols and idolaters. Those who are in communion with God, must have no communication with the unfruitful works of darkness. Limiting the orders to destroy, to the nations here mentioned, plainly shows that after ages were not to draw this into a precedent. A proper understanding of the evil of sin, and of the mystery of a crucified Saviour, will enable us to perceive the justice of God in all his punishments, temporal and eternal. We must deal decidedly with our lusts that war against our souls; let us not show them any mercy, but mortify, and crucify, and utterly destroy them. Thousands in the world that now is, have been undone by ungodly marriages; for there is more likelihood that the good will be perverted, than that the bad will be converted. Those who, in choosing yoke-fellows, keep not within the bounds of a profession of religion, cannot promise themselves helps meet for them.