📖 Deuteronomy 7

Deuteronomy 7 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you;” That is not a motto invented for a poster. It is the first sentence a family hears when this page is opened at night.

Keep going a little further. The chapter also says, “You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.” Deuteronomy 7 opens with these words: “When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you, the Hittite, the…” The line to keep is Deuteronomy 7:2: “and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show…” Carry the word “delivers” from that verse into the rest of the day.

The line worth learning out loud is Deuteronomy 7:2: “and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.

What happens first in Deuteronomy 7? Then try this: Read “and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them; then you shall utterly destroy…” once more. What does it show you about God? You do not have to finish every verse. You can close the book after the memory verse and still have read the Bible together.