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Text -- Deuteronomy 9:1-8 (NET)

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Theological Justification of the Conquest
9:1 Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan so you can dispossess the nations there, people greater and stronger than you who live in large cities with extremely high fortifications. 9:2 They include the Anakites, a numerous and tall people whom you know about and of whom it is said, “Who is able to resist the Anakites?” 9:3 Understand today that the Lord your God who goes before you is a devouring fire; he will defeat and subdue them before you. You will dispossess and destroy them quickly just as he has told you. 9:4 Do not think to yourself after the Lord your God has driven them out before you, “Because of my own righteousness the Lord has brought me here to possess this land.” It is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out ahead of you. 9:5 It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness, that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 9:6 Understand, therefore, that it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is about to give you this good land as a possession, for you are a stubborn people!
The History of Israel’s Stubbornness
9:7 Remember– don’t ever forget– how you provoked the Lord your God in the desert; from the time you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place you were constantly rebelling against him. 9:8 At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Abraham a son of Terah; the father of Isaac; ancestor of the Jewish nation.,the son of Terah of Shem
 · Anak the forefather of the Anakim people
 · Anakim descendents of Anak; an ancient people who lived around Hebron
 · Egypt descendants of Mizraim
 · Horeb a mountain; the place where the law was given to Moses
 · Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel
 · Jacob the second so of a pair of twins born to Isaac and Rebeccaa; ancestor of the 12 tribes of Israel,the nation of Israel,a person, male,son of Isaac; Israel the man and nation
 · Jordan the river that flows from Lake Galilee to the Dead Sea,a river that begins at Mt. Hermon, flows south through Lake Galilee and on to its end at the Dead Sea 175 km away (by air)


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Moses | Obligation | Humility | Anakim | Self-righteousness | Grace of God | God | Sin | Horeb | Self-will | Cities | BRING | AHIMAN | FENCE | FIRE | MANNER; MANNERS | STIFF-NECKED | more
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NET Notes: Deu 9:1 Heb “fortified to the heavens” (so NRSV); NLT “cities with walls that reach to the sky.” This is hyperbole.

NET Notes: Deu 9:2 Heb “great and tall.” Many English versions understand this to refer to physical size or strength rather than numbers (cf. “strong,&...

NET Notes: Deu 9:3 Heb “the Lord.” The pronoun has been used in the translation in keeping with contemporary English style to avoid redundancy.

NET Notes: Deu 9:5 Heb “fathers.”

NET Notes: Deu 9:6 The Hebrew word translated stubborn means “stiff-necked.” The image is that of a draft animal that is unsubmissive to the rein or yoke and...

NET Notes: Deu 9:7 Heb “the Lord” (likewise in the following verse with both “him” and “he”). See note on “he” in 9:3.

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