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    Deuteronomy 9

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    The LORD tells Moses to leave Him alone and destroy Israel; Moses responds by falling down before Him for forty days, and the LORD listens. It is a wonderfully poor arrangement for being left alone.

    The land is not a prize for good behaviourvv. 1–7

    Israel is about to cross the Jordan and face nations larger, stronger, and fortified practically to the heavens, including the formidable descendants of Anak. Yet the LORD goes ahead as consuming fire, and the land is not being handed over because Israel is righteous. The stated reason is the wickedness of those nations, together with the promise made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; Israel, meanwhile, is described as stiff-necked and persistently rebellious.

    The tablets arrive and immediately have a dreadful morningvv. 8–21

    At Horeb, the LORD is angry enough to destroy Israel while Moses spends forty days and forty nights on the mountain without bread or water. The tablets arrive inscribed by the finger of God, and then arrive, in effect, at their first unfortunate appointment: Moses sees the molten calf, throws the tablets down, and shatters them. He prays for forty more days and nights, prays also for Aaron, and reduces the calf through fire, crushing, grinding, and a stream. The object receives a more elaborate funeral than many kings.

    A long catalogue, and one long pleavv. 22–29

    The rebellions continue in the chapter's itinerary: Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-hattaavah, followed by the refusal at Kadesh-barnea to believe or obey the command to enter the land. Moses says the rebellion has lasted from the day he came to know Israel. He falls before the LORD again, and his prayer rests not on Israel's merit but on the LORD's name, promise, servants, inheritance, and mighty hand. The LORD's people are difficult company, but they are still described as the people brought out of Egypt.

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    1. Deut 9:1Hear, 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.

    2. Deut 9:2The 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?”

    3. Deut 9:3But 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.

    4. Deut 9:4When 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.

    5. Deut 9:5It 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.

    6. Deut 9:6Understand, 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.

    7. Deut 9:7Remember 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.

    8. Deut 9:8At Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.

    9. Deut 9:9When 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.

    10. Deut 9:10Then 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.

    11. Deut 9:11And at the end of forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

    12. Deut 9:12And 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.”

    13. Deut 9:13The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

    14. Deut 9:14Leave 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.”

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

    16. Deut 9:16And 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.

    17. Deut 9:17So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, shattering them before your eyes.

    18. Deut 9:18Then 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.

    19. Deut 9:19For 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.

    20. Deut 9:20The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I also prayed for Aaron.

    21. Deut 9:21And 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.

    22. Deut 9:22You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.

    23. Deut 9:23And 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.

    24. Deut 9:24You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.

    25. Deut 9:25So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.

    26. Deut 9:26And 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.

    27. Deut 9:27Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.

    28. Deut 9:28Otherwise, 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.’

    29. Deut 9:29But they are Your people, Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and outstretched arm.”

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    • 3Deuteronomy 4:24For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
    • 3Romans 8:31What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
    • 3Hebrews 12:29“For our God is a consuming fire.”
    • 3Deuteronomy 7:23–24But the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.
    • 3Exodus 23:29–31I will not drive them out before you in a single year; otherwise the land would become desolate and wild animals would multiply against you.
    • 3Joshua 3:11Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth will go ahead of you into the Jordan.
    • 3Micah 2:13One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate, and go out by it. Their King will pass through before them, the LORD as their leader.
    • 18Exodus 34:28So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
    • 14Deuteronomy 29:20The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
    • 22Numbers 11:34So they called that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.
    • 22Exodus 17:7He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
    • 29Nehemiah 1:10They are Your servants and Your people. You redeemed them by Your great power and mighty hand.
    • 32 Thessalonians 1:8in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
    • 5Titus 3:5He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
    • 9Exodus 24:18Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
    • 25Deuteronomy 9:18Then 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.

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