Deuteronomy 9:15 So I turned and went down from the mountain while it was ablaze with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

◄ Deuteronomy 9:15 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
So I turned and went down from the mountain while it was ablaze with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

English Standard Version
So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.

New American Standard Bible
"So I turned and came down from the mountain while the mountain was burning with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So I went back down the mountain, while it was blazing with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

International Standard Version
"So I turned and went down from the mountain while the mountain was on fire. The two Tablets of the Covenant were in both of my hands.

American Standard Version
So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when I came down from the burning mount, and held the two tables of the covenant with both hands,

Darby Bible Translation
And I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire; and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

Young's Literal Translation
'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,

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

9:7-29 That the Israelites might have no pretence to think that God brought them to Canaan for their righteousness, Moses shows what a miracle of mercy it was, that they had not been destroyed in the wilderness. It is good for us often to remember against ourselves, with sorrow and shame, our former sins; that we may see how much we are indebted to free grace, and may humbly own that we never merited any thing but wrath and the curse at God's hand. For so strong is our propensity to pride, that it will creep in under one pretence or another. We are ready to fancy that our righteousness has got for us the special favour of the Lord, though in reality our wickedness is more plain than our weakness. But when the secret history of every man's life shall be brought forth at the day of judgment, all the world will be proved guilty before God. At present, One pleads for us before the mercy-seat, who not only fasted, but died upon the cross for our sins; through whom we may approach, though self-condemned sinners, and beseech for undeserved mercy and for eternal life, as the gift of God in Him. Let us refer all the victory, all the glory, and all the praise, to Him who alone bringeth salvation.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

12-29. Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people … have corrupted themselves—With a view to humble them effectually, Moses proceeds to particularize some of the most atrocious instances of their infidelity. He begins with the impiety of the golden calf—an impiety which, while their miraculous emancipation from Egypt, the most stupendous displays of the Divine Majesty that were exhibited on the adjoining mount, and the recent ratification of the covenant by which they engaged to act as the people of God, were fresh in memory, indicated a degree of inconstancy or debasement almost incredible.