6 Do not seek a treaty of friendship with them as long as you live.
6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity
6 You shall not seek their peace or their prosperity all your days forever.
6 Don't even try to get along with them or do anything for them, ever.
6 You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.
6 As long as you live, you must never promote the welfare and prosperity of the Ammonites or Moabites.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 23:6
Commentary on Deuteronomy 23:1-8
(Read Deuteronomy 23:1-8)
We ought to value the privileges of God's people, both for ourselves and for our children, above all other advantages. No personal blemishes, no crimes of our forefathers, no difference of nation, shuts us out under the Christian dispensation. But an unsound heart will deprive us of blessings; and a bad example, or an unsuitable marriage, may shut our children from them.