Deuteronomy 9
TSK
Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!
Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.

Understand

Deuteronomy 9:6 Understand therefore, that the LORD your God gives you not this good …

Matthew 15:10 And he called the multitude, and said to them, Hear, and understand:

Mark 7:14 And when he had called all the people to him, he said to them, Listen …

Ephesians 5:17 Why be you not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

goeth over

Deuteronomy 1:30 The LORD your God which goes before you, he shall fight for you, …

Deuteronomy 20:4 For the LORD your God is he that goes with you, to fight for you …

Deuteronomy 31:3-6 The LORD your God, he will go over before you, and he will destroy …

Joshua 3:11,14 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the LORD of all the earth passes …

Micah 2:13 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have …

Revelation 19:11-16 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat …

a consuming fire

Deuteronomy 4:24 For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

Isaiah 27:4 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me …

Isaiah 30:27,30,33 Behold, the name of the LORD comes from far, burning with his anger, …

Isaiah 33:14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness has surprised the hypocrites. …

Nahum 1:5,6 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is …

2 Thessalonians 1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that …

Hebrews 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.

he shall

Deuteronomy 7:1,2,16,23,24 When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land where you go …

Exodus 23:29-31 I will not drive them out from before you in one year; lest the land …

Isaiah 41:10-16 Fear you not; for I am with you: be not dismayed; for I am your God: …

Romans 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Not for
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' righteous, but the wickedness of the inhabitants, and the promise of God to their fathers, was the cause of their obtaining Canaan.

Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to …

that he may

Genesis 12:7 And the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, To your seed will I give …

Genesis 13:15 For all the land which you see, to you will I give it, and to your …

Genesis 15:7 And he said to him, I am the LORD that brought you out of Ur of the …

Genesis 17:8 And I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land wherein …

Genesis 26:4 And I will make your seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and …

Genesis 28:13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God …

Exodus 32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore …

Ezekiel 20:14 But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before …

Luke 1:54,55 He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy…

Acts 3:25 You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God …

Acts 13:32 And we declare to you glad tidings, how that the promise which was …

Romans 11:28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as …

Romans 15:8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for …

Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.

Understand

Deuteronomy 9:3,4 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD your God is he which …

Ezekiel 20:44 And you shall know that I am the LORD when I have worked with you …

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.

a stiff-necked

Deuteronomy 9:13 Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, …

Deuteronomy 10:16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff necked.

Deuteronomy 31:27 For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am …

Exodus 32:9 And the LORD said to Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, …

Exodus 33:3 To a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the …

Exodus 34:9 And he said, If now I have found grace in your sight, O LORD, let …

2 Chronicles 30:8 Now be you not stiff necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves …

2 Chronicles 36:13 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him …

Psalm 78:8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; …

Isaiah 48:3,4 I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went …

Ezekiel 2:4 For they are impudent children and stiff hearted. I do send you to …

Zechariah 7:11,12 But they refused to listen, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped …

Acts 7:51 You stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always …

Romans 5:20,21 Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But where …

Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.

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.

Deuteronomy 8:2 And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you …

Ezekiel 16:61-63 Then you shall remember your ways, and be ashamed, when you shall …

Ezekiel 20:43 And there shall you remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein …

Ezekiel 36:31 Then shall you remember your own evil ways, and your doings that …

1 Corinthians 15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called …

Ephesians 2:11 Why remember, that you being in time past Gentiles in the flesh…

1 Timothy 1:13-15 Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but …

from the day

Deuteronomy 31:27 For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am …

Deuteronomy 32:5,6 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his …

Exodus 14:11 And they said to Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, have …

Exodus 16:2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against …

Exodus 17:2 Why the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that …

Numbers 11:4 And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the …

Numbers 14:1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the …

Numbers 16:1 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, …

Numbers 20:2-5 And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves …

Numbers 21:5 And the people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have you …

Numbers 25:2 And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods: and the …

Nehemiah 9:16-18 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, …

Psalm 78:8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; …

Psalm 95:8-11 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of …

Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.

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 appearance and circumstances.

Exodus 32:16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing …

Psalm 106:19-22 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image…

When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.
And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.

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.

And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

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.

Deuteronomy 9:9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, …

Exodus 32:10-14 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, …

Exodus 34:28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did …

2 Samuel 12:16 David therefore sought God for the child; and David fasted, and went …

Psalm 106:23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen …

For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.
And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.
Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

prayed

Exodus 32:11-13 And Moses sought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why does your …

Exodus 34:9 And he said, If now I have found grace in your sight, O LORD, let …

Numbers 14:13-19 And Moses said to the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for …

Psalm 99:6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call …

Psalm 106:23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen …

Jeremiah 14:21 Do not abhor us, for your name's sake, do not disgrace the throne …

thine inheritance

1 Kings 8:51 For they be your people, and your inheritance, which you brought …

which thou hast redeemed

Deuteronomy 9:29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought …

Deuteronomy 32:9 For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

Psalm 74:1,2 O God, why have you cast us off for ever? why does your anger smoke …

Isaiah 63:19 We are yours: you never bore rule over them; they were not called by your name.

which thou hast brought forth

Deuteronomy 7:8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath …

Deuteronomy 13:5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; …

Deuteronomy 15:15 And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, …

Deuteronomy 21:8 Be merciful, O LORD, to your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, …

Deuteronomy 26:7,8 And when we cried to the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard …

Exodus 15:13 You in your mercy have led forth the people which you have redeemed: …

2 Samuel 7:23 And what one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, …

Nehemiah 1:10 Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed …

Psalm 77:15 You have with your arm redeemed your people, the sons of Jacob and …

Psalm 107:2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he has redeemed from the …

Isaiah 44:23 Sing, O you heavens; for the LORD has done it: shout, you lower parts …

Micah 6:4 For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out …

Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, …

Hebrews 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he …

Revelation 5:9 And they sung a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the book, …

Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

Bible Hub
Deuteronomy 8
Top of Page
Top of Page