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Text -- Deuteronomy 9:7-24 (NET)
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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.
9:9 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets , the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained there forty days and nights , eating and drinking nothing .
9:10 The Lord gave me the two stone tablets , written by the very finger of God , and on them was everything he said to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire at the time of that assembly .
9:11 Now at the end of the forty days and nights the Lord presented me with the two stone tablets , the tablets of the covenant .
9:12 And he said to me, “Get up , go down at once from here because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have sinned ! They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them and have made for themselves a cast metal image .”
9:13 Moreover, he said to me, “I have taken note of these people ; they are a stubborn lot!
9:14 Stand aside and I will destroy them, obliterating their very name from memory , and I will make you into a stronger and more numerous nation than they are.”
9:15 So I turned and went down the mountain while it was blazing with fire ; the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands .
9:16 When I looked , you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God and had cast for yourselves a metal calf ; you had quickly turned aside from the way he had commanded you!
9:17 I grabbed the two tablets , threw them down , and shattered them before your very eyes .
9:18 Then I again fell down before the Lord for forty days and nights ; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed , doing such evil before the Lord as to enrage him.
9:19 For I was terrified at the Lord’s intense anger that threatened to destroy you. But he listened to me this time as well .
9:20 The Lord was also angry enough at Aaron to kill him, but at that time I prayed for him too.
9:21 As for your sinful thing that you had made , the calf , I took it, melted it down , ground it up until it was as fine as dust , and tossed the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain .
9:22 Moreover, you continued to provoke the Lord at Taberah , Massah , and Kibroth-Hattaavah .
9:23 And when he sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you, “Go up and possess the land I have given you,” you rebelled against the Lord your God and would neither believe nor obey him.
9:24 You have been rebelling against him from the very first day I knew you!
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Moses |
Obligation |
Humility |
Israel |
Reproof |
Intercession |
Anger |
Tablets of Law |
Aaron |
Taberah |
Table |
Prayer |
Stones |
Kibroth-hattaavah |
Zeal |
Commandments, the Ten |
Fasting |
Wicked |
Self-will |
Unbelief |
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expand allCommentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes
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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NET Notes: Deu 9:9 Heb “in the mountain.” The demonstrative pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.
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NET Notes: Deu 9:10 Heb “the Lord” (likewise at the beginning of vv. 12, 13). See note on “he” in 9:3.
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NET Notes: Deu 9:12 Heb “a casting.” The MT reads מַסֵּכָה (massekhah, “a cast thing”) but some ms...
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NET Notes: Deu 9:15 Heb “the mountain.” The translation uses a pronoun for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.
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NET Notes: Deu 9:17 The Hebrew text includes “from upon my two hands,” but as this seems somewhat obvious and redundant, it has been left untranslated for sty...
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NET Notes: Deu 9:22 Kibroth-Hattaavah. This place name means in Hebrew “burial places of appetite,” that is, graves that resulted from overindulgence. The ref...
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NET Notes: Deu 9:23 Heb “the mouth of the Lord your God,” that is, against the commandment that he had spoken.
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