Deuteronomy 23:6

Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
seek	תִדְרֹ֥שׁ tid.Rosh	H1875	properly · verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular
peace	שְׁלֹמָ֖ם she.lo.Mam	H7965	safe · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
prosperity	וְטֹבָתָ֑ם ve.toa.Tam	H2896	good (as an adjective) in the widest sense · conjunction + noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
days	יָמֶ֖יךָ ya.Mei.kha	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
ever	לְעוֹלָֽם le.'o.Lam	H5769	properly · preposition + noun, common masculine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Ezra 9:12 Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for…
2 Samuel 8:2 And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with…
2 Samuel 12:31 And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them…
Nehemiah 13:23-25 In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 23:1-8

Interpreters are not agreed what is here meant by entering into the congregation of the Lord, which is here forbidden to eunuchs and to bastards, Ammonites and Moabites, for ever, but to Edomites and Egyptians only till the third generation. 1. Some think they are hereby excluded from communicating with the people of God in their religious services. Though eunuchs and bastards were owned as members of the church, and the Ammonites and Moabites might be circumcised and proselyted to the Jewish religion, yet they and their families must lie for some time under marks of disgrace, remembering the rock whence they were hewn, and must not come so near the sanctuary as others might, nor have so fre…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 23:3

even to the their tenth generation shall they not enter--Many eminent writers think that this law of exclusion was applicable only to males; at all events that a definite is used for an indefinite number (Neh 13:1; Rut 4:10; Kg2 10:2). Many of the Israelites being established on the east side of Jordan in the immediate neighborhood of those people, God raised this partition wall between them to prevent the consequences of evil communications. More favor was to be shown to Edomites and Egyptians--to the former from their near relationship to Israel; and to the latter, from their early hospitalities to the family of Jacob, as well as the many acts of kindness rendered them by private Egyptians…

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John Gill on Deuteronomy 23:6

Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever. Not that they were to retain malice towards them, or indulge a spirit of revenge, or not do them any good offices in a private way, which is contrary to the law of love; nor does this contradict any offices of kindness and friendship that might be performed in a personal way: so we find that David had a kindness for Hanun the Ammonite, and showed it, though ill rewarded for it, yet is not blamed for doing it; 2 Samuel 10:2 for these words respect not persons in a private capacity, but the people of Israel as a body politic, who, as such, were not to carry on trade and commerce with those people, nor intermarry with t…

Dictionary and topics

Alien — A foreigner, or person born in another country, and therefore not entitled to the rights and privileges of the country where he resides. Among the Hebrews there were two classes of aliens. (1.) Those…
Ammonites · Exc — Exc
Ammonites, The · Jewish laws respecting: No covenant to made with — Jewish laws respecting: No covenant to made with
Inhospitableness · Ammonites and Moabites — Ammonites and Moabites
Moabites · Israelites: Forbidden to make leagues with — Israelites: Forbidden to make leagues with

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Deuteronomy 23:6

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 23:1-8

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 23:3

John Gill on Deuteronomy 23:6

Dictionary and topics

Deuteronomy 23:6

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 23:1-8

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 23:3

John Gill on Deuteronomy 23:6

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Deuteronomy 23:3-8

Keil & Delitzsch on Deuteronomy 23:1-8

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Deuteronomy 23:4

Rashi on Deuteronomy 23:5