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Deuteronomy 7:26 Explained in Context
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Verse 26. 26Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
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Quick Meaning
Deuteronomy 7:26 keeps the devoted object out of Israelite houses under curse language.
Read It With
- Deuteronomy 7:12–26
Read Deuteronomy 7:26 with 7:12–26. It keeps the devoted object out of Israelite houses under curse language. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: The speech links obedience with fertility, health, and land blessing, recalls Egypt against fear, describes gradual yet total dispossession, and bans profit from cult images.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Blessing, Fear, and Gradual Dispossession advances Deuteronomy's movement from remembered wilderness failure through covenant instruction, land-facing law, public choice, leadership succession, witness song, blessing, and Moses' death. Its particular movement is this: The speech links obedience with fertility, health, and land blessing, recalls Egypt against fear, describes gradual yet total dispossession, and bans profit from cult images. At 7:26, the verse keeps the devoted object out of Israelite houses under curse language.
What Remains True
Because Deuteronomy 7:26 keeps the devoted object out of Israelite houses under curse language, its proportionate enduring truth is this: War texts require honest naming of civilians, captives, children, labor, land, propaganda, and the limits placed even within the ancient command. This unit also keeps the following boundary explicit: These blessings are not private prosperity or fertility guarantees, and illness, infertility, or disability must not be blamed on disobedience.
How It Can Shape Life
- Verse role: Deuteronomy 7:26 keeps the devoted object out of Israelite houses under curse language. Contextual meaning: The speech links obedience with fertility, health, and land blessing, recalls Egypt against fear, describes gradual yet total dispossession, and bans profit from cult images. Proportionate enduring truth: War texts require honest naming of civilians, captives, children, labor, land, propaganda, and the limits placed even within the ancient command. This unit also keeps the following boundary explicit: These blessings are not private prosperity or fertility guarantees, and illness, infertility, or disability must not be blamed on disobedience. Application: Read fertility, health, victory, and abundance as corporate land-covenant rhetoric; support people facing infertility, illness, disability, or fear without diagnosing them through the blessing list.
Continue in Context
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Read Deuteronomy 7:12–26 — Blessing, Fear, and Gradual DispossessionSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Deuteronomy 7:12–26, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Deuteronomy
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, speech and legal clauses, poetic lines, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Deut.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 7:12–26
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Deuteronomy with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
eBible.org distribution of the NET Bible, PDF generated 2026-08-12
Supports: Unit-bounded translation, syntax, lexical, legal, poetic, measure, name, and selected textual notes; silence is not evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible Deuteronomy PDF, complete PDF pp. 1–111, translation and translator notes attached to 7:12–26
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