Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 9

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Deuteronomy 9 . 1 , Moses dissuades them from the opinion of their own righteousness , by rehearsing their several rebellions.

Deuteronomy 9:1

Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.

Deuteronomy 9:1 · BSB

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this day The Hebrew hyyom , "this day ," frequently denotes , as here , this time. They had come , 38 years before this , nearly to the verge of the promised land , but were not permitted , because of their unbelief and rebellion , at that day or time , to enter; but this time they shall certainly pass over. This was spoken in the eleventh month of the fortieth year of their journeying; and it was on the first month of the following year they passed over , and during this interval Moses died.

Deuteronomy 9:2

The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim. You know about them, and you have heard it said, “Who can stand up to the sons of Anak?”

Deuteronomy 9:2 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 9:3

But understand that today the LORD your God goes across ahead of you as a consuming fire; He will destroy them and subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them swiftly, as the LORD has promised you.

Deuteronomy 9:3 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 9:4

When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness.

Deuteronomy 9:4 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 9:5

It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 9:5 · BSB

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Though the Canaanites were expelled for their wickedness , it does not follow , that the Israelites were established in their room on account of any distinguished virtue , or because they deserved it. On many occasions , it may be seen in the history of the world , that God punishes the wicked by the instrumentality of other men , who are as wicked as themselves. Not the Israelites' righteousness , but the wickedness of the inhabitants , and the promise of God to their fathers , was the cause of their obtaining Canaan

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Deuteronomy 9:6

Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.

Deuteronomy 9:6 · BSB

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giveth thee Moses repeats this a third time , that , if it were possible , he might root out of the Israelites the opinion of their own deserts , before God rooted out the Canaanites from their country.

Deuteronomy 9:7

Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.

Deuteronomy 9:7 · BSB

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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

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Deuteronomy 9:8

At Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.

Deuteronomy 9:8 · BSB

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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

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Deuteronomy 9:9

When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.

Deuteronomy 9:9 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 9:10

Then the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by the finger of God with the exact words that the LORD spoke to you out of the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly.

Deuteronomy 9:10 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 9:11

And at the end of forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

Deuteronomy 9:11 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 9:12

And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten image.”

Deuteronomy 9:12 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 9:13

The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

Deuteronomy 9:13 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 9:14

Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”

Deuteronomy 9:14 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 9:15

So I went back down the mountain while it was blazing with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands.

Deuteronomy 9:15 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 9:16

And I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.

Deuteronomy 9:16 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 9:17

So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, shattering them before your eyes.

Deuteronomy 9:17 · BSB

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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

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Deuteronomy 9:18

Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.

Deuteronomy 9:18 · BSB

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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

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Deuteronomy 9:19

For I was afraid of the anger and wrath that the LORD had directed against you, enough to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me this time as well.

Deuteronomy 9:19 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 9:20

The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I also prayed for Aaron.

Deuteronomy 9:20 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 9:21

And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.

Deuteronomy 9:21 · BSB

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This was the stream which flowed from the rock that Moses smote with his rod

  • Exodus 17:6 and to which the Psalmist alludes in
  • Psalm 78:16-20
  • Psalm 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

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Deuteronomy 9:22

You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.

Deuteronomy 9:22 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 9:23

And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, “Go up and possess the land that I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him.

Deuteronomy 9:23 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 9:24

You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.

Deuteronomy 9:24 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 9:25

So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.

Deuteronomy 9:25 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 9:26

And I prayed to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance, whom You redeemed through Your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Deuteronomy 9:26 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 9:27

Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.

Deuteronomy 9:27 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 9:28

Otherwise, those in the land from which You brought us out will say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land He had promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’

Deuteronomy 9:28 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 9:29

But they are Your people, Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and outstretched arm.”

Deuteronomy 9:29 · BSB

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is the classical cross-reference layer — centuries of catchword parallels beneath the site’s quotations, allusions, and echoes. Every reference above also flows into the wider web of connections.

In the wider web5 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Allusions Deuteronomy 9:8 → Exodus 32, Deuteronomy 9:8-10 → Exodus 32, Nehemiah 9:24 → Deuteronomy 9:3, Nehemiah 9:24-25 → Deuteronomy 9:3
Trajectories
Golden Calf (Idolatry and Intercession)
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