John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 8. But because the Lord loved you , etc.] With an unmerited love; he loved them, because he loved them; that is, because he would love them; his love was not owing to any goodness in them, or done by them, or any love in them to him, but to his own good will and pleasure: and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers ; the promise he had made, confirmed by an oath: hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand ; out of the land of Egypt: and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen ; where they were bondmen to the Egyptians: from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt ; who detained them, and refused to let them go.
Ver. 9 Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God , etc.] The only true and living God, and not the idols of the Gentiles, who are false and lifeless ones, and therefore not the proper objects of adoration: the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy ; as appeared by fulfilling the promise made to their fathers, in bringing them out of Egypt, and now them to the borders of the land of Canaan given them for an inheritance: with them that love him, and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations ; (see Exodus 20:6) which are not the causes or conditions of his covenant and mercy, nor of his keeping them, but descriptive of the persons that enjoy the benefit thereof.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 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 n communication with the unfruitful works of darkness. Limiting the orders to destroy, to the nations here mentioned, plainly shows tha after ages were not to draw this into a precedent. A prope understanding of the evil of sin, and of the mystery of a crucifie Saviour, will enable us to perceive the justice of God in all his punishments, temporal and eternal. We must deal decidedly with ou lusts that war against our souls; let us not show them any mercy, but mortify, and crucify, and utterly destroy them. Thousands in the worl that now is, have been undone by ungodly marriages; for there is mor 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 help meet for them.
Original Hebrew כי3588 מאהבת160 יהוה3068 אתכם853 ומשׁמרו8104 את853 השׁבעה7621 אשׁר834 נשׁבע7650 לאבתיכם1 הוציא3318 יהוה3068 אתכם853 ביד3027 חזקה2389 ויפדך6299 מבית1004 עבדים5650 מיד3027 פרעה6547 מלך4428 מצרים׃4714
