Deuteronomy 9:7-21

9:7

Remember <02142> [Remember.]

In order to destroy the opinion which the Israelites had of their own righteousness, it was necessary to call to mind some of their most notorious provocations and rebellions, which Moses exhorts them to preserve in their mind, as a means to keep them humble.

from ... time <04480 03117> [from the day.]

9:8

Horeb <02722> [Also in Horeb.]

Or rather, "Even at Horeb," for there is a peculiar emphasis here, even there where they had lately received the law, attended with the most astonishing appearances and circumstances.

9:9

up <05927> [I was.]

tablets ... tablets <03871> [the tables.]

remained <03427> [then I.]

eating <0398> [I neither.]

9:10

Lord <03068> [the Lord.]

written ..... finger <03789 0676> [written with.]

<01697> [all the words.]

9:11

tablets ... tablets .... covenant <03871 01285> [the tables of the covenant.]

9:12

Get <06965> [Arise.]

<07843> [corrupted.]

once ................. quickly <04118> [are quickly.]

9:13

<07200> [I have.]

stubborn <06203> [stiffnecked.]

9:14

Stand <07503> [Let me.]

obliterating <04229> [blot.]

make <06213> [and I will.]

9:15

turned <06437> [I turned.]

mountain ... it <02022> [the mount.]

9:16

looked <07200> [I looked.]

9:17

threw <07993 05921> [cast them.]

Moses might have done this through distress and anguish of spirit, on beholding their abominable idolatry and dissolute conduct; or probably he did it emblematically, and perhaps by the direction of God; intimating thereby, that as by this act of his the tables were broken in pieces, on which the Law of God was written, so they, by their present conduct, had made a breach in the covenant, and broken the laws of their Maker and Sovereign.

9:18

fell <05307> [I fell down.]

The transgressions of the people rendered this second forty days' fasting necessary to Moses. Their pardon was indeed in some sense obtained before he ascended the mount; yet probably much of the time which he spent there was employed in supplication: and when he descended the second time, with the tables of the law in his hands, the pardon was, as it were, ratified and sealed.

9:19

terrified <03025> [For I.]

Lord's .......... he <03068> [But the.]

9:20

9:21

took <03947> [I took.]

stream <05158> [the brook.]

This was the stream which flowed from the rock that Moses smote with his rod, (Ex 17:6,) and to which the Psalmist alludes in Ps 78:16-20; 105:41. Philo relates, that upon Moses' striking the rock, the water poured out like a torrent, affording not only a sufficient quantity for allaying their present thirst, but to fill their water vessels, to carry with them on their journey.