John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 7. Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you , etc.] As of the Edomites, Moabites, Ammonites, and Phoenicians: nigh unto thee ; as the above were, being on the borders of their land: the Targum of Jonathan interprets this of the idols of the seven nations, that is, of the land of Canaan: or far off from thee ; as the Babylonians, Persians, and others: from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth ; which includes all the idols in the world, worshipped by whatsoever nation, and which were forbidden; and which shows the universality of idolatry in those times, and that that is an insufficient argument in its favour. Jarchi interprets this of the sun and moon, and the host of heaven, who go from one end of the world to the other; and this seems to have been the first and most common idolatry of the Gentile world, and which were worshipped in the several deities they set up.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 6-11 - It is the policy of Satan to try to lead us to evil by those whom we love, whom we least suspect of any ill design, and whom we are desirou to please, and apt to conform to. The enticement here is supposed to come from a brother or child, who are near by nature; from a wife of friend, who are near by choice, and are to us as our souls. But it is our duty to prefer God and religion, before the nearest and deares friends we have in the world. We must not, to please our friends, brea God's law. Thou shalt not consent to him, nor go with him, not for company, or curiosity, not to gain his affections. It is a genera rule, If sinners entice thee, consent thou not, Pr 1:10. And we mus not hinder the course of God's justice.
Original Hebrew מאלהי430 העמים5971 אשׁר834 סביבתיכם5439 הקרבים7138 אליך413 או176 הרחקים7350 ממך4480 מקצה7097 הארץ776 ועד5704 קצה7097 הארץ׃776
