Hard Deuteronomy 7 Quiz Questions and Answers

Answer 1: D: The hornet is what the LORD promised to send. Deuteronomy 7:20 names it as the means of finishing those who survived and hid themselves from Israel. The evil diseases of Egypt do fall on Israel’s enemies in verse 15, but that verse describes sickness withheld from Israel rather than something sent among the nations to drive them out of the land.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 7:20 (KJV): “Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.”

Answer 2: B: Moses says the anger of the LORD would be kindled and destroy them suddenly. Deuteronomy 7:4 attaches that outcome directly to a son turned away from following the LORD to serve other gods. Repaying to the face is a real judgment in this chapter, but verse 10 aims it at them that hate him rather than at Israel turning aside, and it carries no note of suddenness.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 7:4 (KJV): “For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.”

Answer 3: C: The Jebusites close the list. Deuteronomy 7:1 names the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, in that order. The Girgashites are easy to place at the end because they are the least familiar of the seven, but the text sets them second.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 7:1 (KJV): “the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;”

Answer 4: A: The beasts of the field are the stated reason. Deuteronomy 7:22 explains that consuming the nations at once would leave the land empty enough for wild animals to multiply against Israel. The kindled anger of the LORD is a real warning in this chapter, but verse 4 attaches it to intermarriage and the turning of a son to other gods, not to the pace of the conquest.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 7:22 (KJV): “And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.”

Answer 5: E: Cutting down is what the groves receive. Deuteronomy 7:5 assigns a different action to each object: the altars are destroyed, the images broken down, the groves cut down, and the graven images burnt with fire. Burning with fire belongs to the graven images in that same verse, which makes it the closest of the wrong answers.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 7:5 (KJV): “But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.”

Answer 6: C: Israel were the fewest of all people. Deuteronomy 7:7 makes this the ground of the whole argument, since a nation with no numbers to boast of cannot claim it was chosen for them. Being greater and mightier is said of the seven nations in verse 1, and reading it back onto Israel reverses the contrast Moses is drawing.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 7:7 (KJV): “The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:”

Answer 7: D: The silver and gold on the images is what Israel must not desire or take. Deuteronomy 7:25 warns that taking it would ensnare them, because it is an abomination to the LORD. The images themselves are forbidden too, but the same verse tells Israel to burn them with fire rather than simply leave them untouched.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 7:25 (KJV): “The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee.”

Answer 8: B: Loving, blessing and multiplying are the three the verse names in that order. Deuteronomy 7:13 puts them before the list of what the land and the livestock would yield, so the promise begins with what God does to the people themselves. Blessing and multiplying are easy to hold onto and redemption is a real act of God in verse 8, but redemption belongs to the bringing out of Egypt rather than to this promise.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 7:13 (KJV): “he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.”

Answer 9: A: The son is the one named. Deuteronomy 7:4 warns that they will turn away thy son from following the LORD to serve other gods. Verse 3 forbids the marriage in both directions, so a reader may expect the daughter to be named here as well, but the danger in verse 4 is stated of the son alone.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 7:4 (KJV): “For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.”

Answer 10: C: The heart says these nations are more than I. Deuteronomy 7:17 records the question that follows it: how can I dispossess them? Verse 1 does call the nations mightier than Israel, but that is Moses describing them from outside, not the wording he places inside Israel’s own heart.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 7:17 (KJV): “If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?”

Answer 11: E: Moses points them back to Pharaoh and to all Egypt. Deuteronomy 7:18 answers the fear raised in verse 17 by telling Israel to well remember what the LORD did there. The oath sworn unto the fathers is real and appears in verse 8, but Moses gives it as the reason for the redemption rather than as the cure for fear of the nations.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 7:18 (KJV): “Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;”

Answer 12: C: Repaying to their face is the phrase Moses uses, and he uses it twice in the one verse. Deuteronomy 7:10 says the LORD repays them that hate him to their face, to destroy them, and will not be slack. Sickness is laid upon Israel’s enemies in verse 15, but that promise concerns those who hate Israel and speaks of disease rather than of how God repays those who hate him.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 7:10 (KJV): “And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.”

Answer 13: A: Moses closes the exchange in both directions. Deuteronomy 7:3 says thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son, which shuts the door each way. A reader who holds only the first half of the verse will think the ban runs one way, but the second half reverses it.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 7:3 (KJV): “Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.”

Answer 14: D: The great temptations head the list. Deuteronomy 7:19 names them first, then the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm. A mighty destruction sounds close because the mighty hand stands in this same verse, but that phrase belongs to verse 23 and describes the conquest still to come rather than what Israel had already seen.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 7:19 (KJV): “The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out:”

Answer 15: C: The diseases fall upon all them that hate thee. Deuteronomy 7:15 promises Israel freedom from the evil diseases of Egypt and turns those same diseases against Israel’s enemies. Them that hate him appears in verse 10, but that verse concerns those who hate the LORD and speaks of repayment rather than sickness.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 7:15 (KJV): “And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.”

Answer 16: B: Making a covenant and shewing mercy are the two forbidden acts. Deuteronomy 7:2 places them together immediately after the command to smite and utterly destroy. Marriage is forbidden as well, but that ban arrives in verse 3 and is stated apart from the pair named here.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 7:2 (KJV): “And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:”

Answer 17: E: Israel must utterly detest and utterly abhor it. Deuteronomy 7:26 forbids bringing an abomination home and warns that doing so would make the household a cursed thing like it. Burning with fire is the command given for the graven images in verses 5 and 25, but this verse presses past the act and asks for a settled loathing of the thing itself.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 7:26 (KJV): “Neither 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.”

Answer 18: A: The comparison reaches to all people upon the face of the earth. Deuteronomy 7:6 sets Israel’s choosing against the whole earth, not against Canaan alone. The seven nations of verse 1 are the rivals standing directly in front of Israel, which makes them the nearest of the wrong answers, but the verse reaches far wider than they do.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 7:6 (KJV): “For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.”

Answer 19: C: It is the name of their kings that is destroyed from under heaven. Deuteronomy 7:24 gives the kings themselves a different fate: they are delivered into Israel’s hand, and it is their name that is blotted out from under heaven. A reader who holds only the first half of the verse will answer with the kings, but the phrase from under heaven belongs to what is done with their name.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 7:24 (KJV): “And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.”

Answer 20: E: Serving the gods of the nations is the prohibition Moses attaches there, and he calls it a snare. Deuteronomy 7:16 runs the three together: consume them, let thine eye have no pity, and do not serve their gods. Making no covenant is a genuine command in this chapter, but verse 2 gives it well before the charge about pity.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 7:16 (KJV): “And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.”

Answer 21: D: Moses calls him a mighty God and terrible. Deuteronomy 7:21 grounds the command not to be affrighted in the fact that the LORD stands among Israel under that description. A faithful God who keepeth covenant and mercy is a true title from verse 9, but that verse answers how God treats those who love him rather than why Israel need not fear the nations.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 7:21 (KJV): “Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.”

Answer 22: B: The condition is hearkening to these judgments and doing them. Deuteronomy 7:12 makes the covenant and the mercy sworn unto the fathers follow from that hearing and doing. The commandments and the statutes are named alongside the judgments in verse 11, which makes them the nearest of the wrong answers, but verse 12 narrows the condition to the judgments and to the hearkening that receives them.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 7:12 (KJV): “Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:”