Deuteronomy 9
9
Warning against Self-Righteousness
1“Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go and drive out nations greater and stronger than you, # Dt 4:38; 11:23; Jos 17:18; Jdg 1:19 with large cities fortified to the heavens. # Dt 1:28 2The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim. # Dt 2:10; Jos 11:21-22; 14:12,15 You know about them and you have heard it said about them, ‘Who can stand up to the sons of Anak? ’ # Nm 13:22; Jos 15:13-14; 21:11; Jdg 1:20 3But understand that today the Lord your God will cross over ahead of you # Dt 31:3; Jos 3:11 as a consuming fire; # Ex 24:17; Dt 4:24; Is 29:6; 30:27,30; 33:14; Ezk 15:7; 19:12 He will devastate and subdue them before you. You will drive them out and destroy them swiftly, # Dt 12:2; Jos 23:13 as the Lord has told you. 4When the Lord your God drives them out before you, do not say to yourself, ‘The Lord brought me in to take possession of this land because of my righteousness.’ # Ezk 14:14,20; 18:22; Ps 31:1; 89:16; 119:40 Instead, the Lord will drive out these nations before you because of their wickedness. # Pr 11:5 5You are not going to take possession of their land because of your righteousness or your integrity. Instead, the Lord your God will drive out these nations before you because of their wickedness, in order to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 6Understand that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land # Dt 8:7 to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people. # Ex 32:9; 33:3,5; 34:9; Dt 9:13
Israel’s Rebellion and Moses’ Intercession
7“Remember # Ex 32–34 and do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God in the wilderness. You have been rebelling against the Lord from the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place. 8You provoked the Lord at Horeb, and He was angry enough with you to destroy you. 9When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant # Ex 24:12; 31:18; Dt 9:11,15; Heb 9:4 the Lord made with you, I stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights. I did not eat bread or drink water. 10On the day of the assembly the Lord gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by God’s finger. # Ex 8:19; 31:18; Lk 11:20; Jn 8:6 The exact words were on them, which the Lord spoke to you from the fire on the mountain. # Dt 5:4,22; 10:4 11The Lord gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant, at the end of the 40 days and 40 nights.
12“The Lord said to me, ‘Get up and go down immediately from here. For your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They have quickly turned from the way that I commanded them; they have made a cast image for themselves.’ # Ex 32:4,8; 34:17; Lv 19:4; Nm 33:52; Dt 27:15 13The Lord also said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed, they are a stiff-necked people. 14Leave Me alone, and I will destroy them and blot out their name under heaven. # Ex 17:14; Dt 25:19; 29:20; 32:26; 2Kg 14:27; Ps 51:1,9; Jr 18:23 Then I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.’
15“So I went back down the mountain, while it was blazing with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands. 16I saw how you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made a calf image for yourselves. You had quickly turned from the way the Lord had commanded for you. 17So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands, shattering them before your eyes. # Ex 32:19 18Then I fell down like the first time in the presence of the Lord for 40 days and 40 nights; I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you committed, doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight and provoking Him to anger. 19I was afraid of the fierce anger the Lord had directed against you, # Heb 12:21 because He was about to destroy you. But again the Lord listened to me on that occasion. # Dt 10:10 20The Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. But I prayed for Aaron at that time also. 21I took the sinful calf you had made, burned it up, and crushed it, thoroughly grinding it to powder as fine as dust. Then I threw it into the stream that came down from the mountain. # Ex 32:20
22“You continued to provoke the Lord at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-hattaavah. # Nm 11:1-35; Ex 17:1-7 23When the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, He said, ‘Go up and possess the land I have given you’; you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God. You did not believe or obey Him. # Nm 13–14 24You have been rebelling against the Lord ever since I have # Sam, LXX read since He has known you. # Ps 95; 106
25“I fell down in the presence of the Lord 40 days and 40 nights because the Lord had threatened to destroy you. 26I prayed to the Lord:
Lord God, do not annihilate Your people, Your inheritance, whom You redeemed # Dt 7:8; 15:15; 24:18 through Your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a strong hand. 27Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Disregard this people’s stubbornness, and their wickedness and sin. 28Otherwise, those in the land you brought us from will say, ‘Because the Lord wasn’t able to bring them into the land He had promised them, and because He hated them, He brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’ # Nm 14:16 29But they are Your people, Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and outstretched arm. # 2Kg 17:36; Neh 1:10; Jr 27:5; 32:17
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Deuteronomy 9
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1‘Hear, Israel, thou art passing over to-day the Jordan, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself; cities great and fenced in the heavens;
2a people great and tall, sons of Anakim, whom thou — thou hast known, (and thou — thou hast heard: Who doth station himself before sons of Anak?)
3and thou hast known to-day, that Jehovah thy God [is] He who is passing over before thee — a fire consuming; He doth destroy them, and He doth humble them before thee, and thou hast dispossessed them, and destroyed them hastily, as Jehovahhath spoken to thee.
4‘Thou dost not speak in thy heart (in Jehovah thy God's driving them away from before thee), saying, For my righteousness hath Jehovah brought me in to possess this land, seeing for the wickedness of these nations is Jehovah dispossessing them from thy presence;
5not for thy righteousness, and for the uprightness of thy heart, art thou going in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations is Jehovah thy God dispossessing them from before thee; and in order to establish the word which Jehovah hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob;
6and thou hast known, that not for thy righteousness is Jehovah thy God giving to thee this good land to possess it, for a people stiff of neck thou [art].
7‘Remember — do not forget — that [with] which thou hast made Jehovah thy God wroth in the wilderness; even from the day that thou hast come out of the land of Egypt till your coming in unto this place rebels ye have been with Jehovah;
8even in Horeb ye have made Jehovah wroth, and Jehovah sheweth Himself angry against you — to destroy you.
9‘In my going up into the mount to receive the tables of stone (tables of the covenant which Jehovah hath made with you), and I abide in the mount forty days and forty nights; bread I have not eaten, and water I have not drunk;
10and Jehovah giveth unto me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God, and on them according to all the words which Jehovah hath spoken with you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly.
11‘And it cometh to pass, at the end of forty days and forty nights, Jehovah hath given unto me the two tables of stone — tables of the covenant,
12and Jehovah saith unto me, Rise, go down, hasten from this, for thy people hath done corruptly, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt; they have turned aside hastily out of the way which I have commanded them — they have made to themselves a molten thing!
13‘And Jehovah speaketh unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and lo, a people stiff of neck it [is];
14desist from Me, and I destroy them, and blot out their name from under the heavens, and I make thee become a nation more mighty and numerous than it.
15‘And I turn, and come down from the mount, and the mount is burning with fire, and the two tables of the covenant on my two hands,
16and I see, and lo, ye have sinned against Jehovah your God; ye have made to yourselves a molten calf; ye have turned aside hastily out of the way which Jehovah hath commanded you.
17‘And I lay hold on the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and break them before your eyes,
18and I throw myself before Jehovah, as at first, forty days and forty nights; bread I have not eaten, and water I have not drunk, because of all your sins which ye have sinned, by doing the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, to make Him angry.
19‘For I have been afraid because of the anger and the fury with which Jehovah hath been wroth against you, to destroy you; and Jehovah doth hearken unto me also at this time.
20‘And with Aaron hath Jehovah shewed himself very angry, to destroy him, and I pray also for Aaron at that time;
21and your sin, which ye have made — the calf — I have taken, and I burn it with fire, and beat it, grinding well till that it [is] small as dust, and I cast its dust unto the brook which is going down out of the mount.
22‘And in Taberah, and in Massah, and in Kibroth-Hattaavah, ye have been making Jehovah wroth:
23and in Jehovah's sending you from Kadesh-Barnea, saying, Go up, and possess the land which I have given to you, then ye provoke the mouth of Jehovah your God, and have not given credence to Him, nor hearkened to His voice;
24rebels ye have been with Jehovah from the day of my knowing you.
25‘And I throw myself before Jehovah, the forty days and the forty nights, as I had thrown myself, for Jehovah hath said — to destroy you;
26and I pray unto Jehovah, and say, Lord Jehovah, destroy not Thy people, and Thine inheritance, whom Thou hast ransomed in Thy greatness; whom Thou hast brought out of Egypt with a strong hand;
27be mindful of Thy servants, of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, turn not unto the stiffness of this people, and unto its wickedness, and unto its sin;
28lest the land say from which Thou hast brought us out, Because of Jehovah's want of ability to bring them in unto the land of which He hath spoken to them, and because of His hating them, He brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness;
29and they [are] Thy people, and Thine inheritance, whom Thou hast brought out by Thy great power, and by Thy stretched-out arm!
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