Not by an unbridled passion, but in zeal for God's honour, and by the direction of God's Spirit, to signify to the people, that the covenant between God and them contained in those tables was broken and made void, and they were now quite cast out of God's favour, and could expect nothing from him but fiery indignation and severe justice. See Poole on "Exodus 32:19".
5. WARNING AGAINST SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS AND THEIR PREVIOUS FAILURES Chapter S 9:1-10:11 _ 1. The warning (Deuteronomy 9:1)_ 2. The failures of the past (Deuteronomy 9:7) 3. The intercession of Moses...
DEUTERONOMY 9:7_ b-_ DEUTERONOMY 10:11 (or DEUTERONOMY 10:9). Narrative of the legislation on Mount Horeb; for the purpose apparently of illustrating...
I TOOK. Compare "Exodus 32:19....
Vivid variation and expansion of Exodus 32:19 _b_: _and Moses" anger waxed hot and he cast the tables out of his hands and brake them beneath the mount_....
b. HOW TO PREVENT THE THREAT (Deuteronomy 9:1 to Deuteronomy 11:21) (1) BY A REALISTIC SELF-EVALUATION (Deuteronomy 9:1 to Deut
_AND I TOOK THE TWO TABLES, AND CAST THEM OUT OF MY TWO HANDS, AND BRAKE THEM BEFORE YOUR EYES._ I took the two tables ... and brake them before your eyes - not in the heat of intemperate passion, bu...
PRACTICAL EXHORTATIONS (CONTINUED) The rebellions and provocations of the wilderness are recalled, to show the people that it is not of their own merit that they are to inherit the promises, nor by t...
AND BRAKE THEM] The action symbolised the breaking of the covenant through the sin of the people....
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 9 V1 ‘Listen to this, *Israelites. Now you will go across the River Jordan. You will go into th...
I... BRAKE THEM BEFORE YOUR EYES. — This shows that the act was deliberate on Moses’ part. He did not simply drop the tables in his passion before they reached the camp; he deliberately broke the mate...
וָ אֶתְפֹּשׂ֙ בִּ שְׁנֵ֣י הַ לֻּחֹ֔ת וָֽ
ISRAEL'S ELECTION, AND MOTIVES FOR FAITHFULNESS Deuteronomy 9:1; Deuteronomy 10:1; Deuteronomy 11:1 THE remaining Chapter s of this special introduction to the statement of the actual laws beginni
MOSES' INTERCESSION FOR A REBELLIOUS PEOPLE Deuteronomy 9:15 During the remainder of this chapter Moses continues to remind the people of their rebellions. It is well, when we are tempted to self-adu...
It is interesting to note that as the final announcement of their approaching entrance to the land was made the difficulties which the people had faced at Kadesh\-barnea were recognized as still confr...
Moses seems to dwell upon this most interesting passage in Israel's history, as if to remind the people of sovereign grace. And is it not a very striking feature, typically considered, of JESUS'S inte...
In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be called an abstract typical system. That is, we see in them a number of institutions laid down by Jehovah, the pattern of which wa...
17._And I took the two tables, and cast them out _Moses here accuses himself of no transgression; he does not, therefore, give us to understand that he was urged to break the tables by the impetuosity...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 8, 9, 10, AND 11. In chapter 8, in the most instructive and touching language as to the care God had taken of them, while keeping them in dependence, and His...
AND I TOOK THE TWO TABLES, AND CAST THEM OUT OF MY TWO HANDS,.... In wrath and indignation at the sin they were guilty of: AND BRAKE THEM BEFORE YOUR EYES; as an emblem of their breach of them by tra...
And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. Ver. 17. _And cast them._] _See Trapp on "_ Exo 32:19 _"_...
_I brake them before your eyes_ Not by an unbridled passion, but it zeal for God's honour, and by the direction of God's Spirit; to signify to the people that the covenant between God and them, contai...
1 Moses disswadeth them from the opinion of their owne righteousnesse, by rehearsing their seuerall rebellions. 1 HEARE, O Israel, thou art to passe ouer Iordan this day, to goe in, to possesse natio...
Instances of Rebellious Behavior. In support of the term "stiff-necked people," which he had just applied to the children of Israel, Moses now adduces a few incidents from the wilderness journey....
And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes, Exodus 32:19....
WARNINGS BECAUSE OF PREVIOUS REBELLIONS (vs.1-29) In spite of Israel's many failures in the wilderness. God would keep His Word to bring them to the land of promise. Israel is told to go in and dispo...
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 w...
"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 th...
Deuteronomy 9:17 took H8610 (H8799) two H8147 tablets H3871 threw H7993 (H8686) of H5921 two H8147 hands...
MOSES NOW REMINDS THEM OF HOW SERIOUS THE SITUATION HAD BEEN AND HOW HIS INTERCESSION HAD SAVED THEM (DEUTERONOMY 9:13). Yahweh had been so affected by their sin that He had wanted to destroy them, an...
CONTENTS: Israel reminded of their unworthiness to possess the land in themselves. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. CONCLUSION: Our gaining of the heavenly Canaan must be attribu...
Deuteronomy 9:1. _This day;_ at this time, or in the course of a month. Day is often used in scripture for the whole of a man's life, for a season, and for a short time. Deuteronomy 9:19. _I was afrai...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 9:7 The golden calf incident is retold at length to demonstrate Israel’s stubbornness. ⇐...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 9:17 BROKE THEM. Moses’ breaking the tablets symbolized the deliberate ending of Israel’s covenant relationship with God. It was an impulsive gesture of fury and despai...
CRITICAL NOTES.—Moses dissuadeth them from self-righteousness by recital of past sins and rebellion. DEUTERONOMY 9:1. This day, this time. Once before they had been at the borders of Canaan; but did n...
EXPOSITION DISSUASIVES FROM SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS. DEUTERONOMY 9:1 Israel might acknowledge that it was of God's free gift that they possessed the land of Canaan, and yet might flatter themselves by th...
As we have told you the word Deuteronomy means the second law. It is really a rehearsal, sort of a capsulation by Moses of the law that was given. Deuteronomy itself, though it covers the forty years...
Deuteronomy 9:17...
I brake them before your eyes — Not by an unbridled passion, but in zeal for God's honour, and by the direction of God's spirit, to signify to tine people, that the covenant between God and them conta...