Deuteronomy 9

Deuteronomy 9:1 “Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go into and take possession from nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the sky.

Deuteronomy 9:2 The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim. You know about them and you have heard it said about them, ‘Who can stand up to the sons of Anak? ‘

Deuteronomy 9:3 But understand that today Yahveh, your God, will cross over ahead of you as a consuming fire; he will exterminate them and subdue them before you. You will take possession of them and destroy them rapidly, as Yahveh has told you.

Deuteronomy 9:4 When Yahveh, your God, pushes them away before you, do not say in your heart, and this is what you say: ‘Yahveh brought me in to take possession of this land because of my righteousness.’ Instead, Yahveh will drive out these nations before you because of their wickedness.

Deuteronomy 9:5 You are not going to take possession of their land because of your righteousness or your integrity. Instead, Yahveh, your God, will drive out these nations before you because of their wickedness in order to fulfill the promise he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 9:6 Understand that Yahveh, your God, is not giving you this good land to take possession of because of your righteousness because you are a hard-necked people.

Deuteronomy 9:7 “Remember and do not forget how you infuriated Yahveh your God in the open country. You have been rebelling against Yahveh from the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place.

Deuteronomy 9:8 You infuriated Yahveh at Horeb, and he was angry enough with you to exterminate you.

Deuteronomy 9:9 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant Yahveh established with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I did not eat food or drink water.

Deuteronomy 9:10 On the day of the collected assembly, Yahveh gave me the two stone tablets inscribed by God’s finger. The exact words were on them, which Yahveh spoke to you from the fire on the mountain.

Deuteronomy 9:11 Yahveh gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant, at the end of the forty days and forty nights.

Deuteronomy 9:12 “Yahveh said to me, ‘Get up and go down immediately from here. You see, 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.’

Deuteronomy 9:13 Yahveh also said to me, and this is what he said: ‘I have seen this people, and notice, they are a hard-necked people.

Deuteronomy 9:14 Leave me alone, and I will exterminate them and blot out their name under the sky. Then I will make you into a nation more robust and more numerous than they.’

Deuteronomy 9:15 “So I went back down the mountain, while it was blazing with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

Deuteronomy 9:16 I saw and noticed how you had failed Yahveh your God; you had made a calf image for yourselves. You had quickly turned from the way Yahveh had commanded for you.

Deuteronomy 9:17 So I took hold of the two tablets and tossed them from my hands, shattering them before your eyes.

Deuteronomy 9:18 I fell like the first time in the presence of Yahveh for forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food or drink water because of all your failures, doing what was evil in Yahveh’s sight and angering him.

Deuteronomy 9:19 I was afraid of the fierce anger of Yahveh’s infuriation against you because he was about to exterminate you. But again, Yahveh listened to me on that occasion.

Deuteronomy 9:20 Yahveh was angry enough with Aaron to exterminate him, but I also prayed for Aaron at that time.

Deuteronomy 9:21 I took the calf you had mistakenly made and burned it. I crushed it, thoroughly grinding it to powder as fine as dust, and tossed its dust into the stream that came down from the mountain.

Deuteronomy 9:22 “You continued to infuriate Yahveh at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-hattaavah.

Deuteronomy 9:23 When Yahveh sent you from Kadesh-Barnea, and this is what he said: ‘Go up and take possession of the land I have given you’; you rebelled against the command of Yahveh, your God. You did not believe or obey him.

Deuteronomy 9:24 You have been rebelling against Yahveh ever since I have known you.

Deuteronomy 9:25 “I fell in the presence of Yahveh forty days and forty nights because Yahveh had threatened to exterminate you.

Deuteronomy 9:26 I prayed to Yahveh: Lord Yahveh, do not annihilate your people, your inheritance, whom you redeemed through your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a strong hand.

Deuteronomy 9:27 Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Ignore these people’s stubbornness and their wickedness and failures.

Deuteronomy 9:28 Or else, those in the land you brought us from will say, ‘Because Yahveh 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 open country.’

Deuteronomy 9:29 But they are your people, your inheritance, whom you brought out by your great power and outstretched arm.

Deuteronomy 9 quotes:

“The scene is set first by an anticipation of the conquest of the promised land (vv. 1–3). Then Moses reminds the people in advance that the land will come to them from God’s graciousness and judgment, not through any righteousness of their own (vv. 4–6). In the following verses (7–21), the perverse stubbornness of the people becomes the central topic and it is illustrated by reference to past events, particularly the events associated with Horeb/Sinai; that the illustrations could easily be multiplied, however, is made clear by the brief summary statement in vv. 22–24. Finally the chapter concludes with Moses’ prayer on behalf of the people committed to his charge (vv. 25–29).”

Craigie Peter C. The Book of Deuteronomy. Eerdmans 1976. p. 192.

“There are two ways of looking at difficulties ; we may look at them from a human stand-point, or from a divine one; we may look at them in a spirit of unbelief, or we may look at them iu the calmness and quietness of confidence in the living God. We have Jiu instance of the former in the report of the unbelieving spies in Numbers xiii ; we have an instance of the latter in the opening of our present chapter.

It is not the pro\nnce, nor the path, of faith to deny that there are difficulties to be encountered by the people of God ; it would be the height of folly to do so, inasmuch as there aie difficulties, and it would be but fool-hardiness, fanaticism, or fleshly enthusiasm to deny it. It is always well for people to know what they are about, and not to rush blindly into a path for which they are not prepared. An unbelieving sluggard may say. There is a lion in the way; a blind enthusiast may say, There is no such thing ; the true man of faith will say. Though there were a thousand lions in the waj’, God can soon dispose of them.”

Mackintosh Charles Henry. Notes on the Book of Deuteronomy. Loizeaux Bros 1880. pp. 65-66.

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