What a beautiful strain of earnestness in prayer is here read to us, of Moses' pleading with GOD in his covenant relation and character. Would the Reader see another yet more beautiful example of the same kind, let him turn to John 17:1.
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...
_So I fell down_, etc.] Having recounted in Deuteronomy 9:22 the accumulated burdens of the people's sins (there is therefore no need to doubt the originality of these verses, as Steuernagel does) und...
_VER._ 25. _THUS I FELL DOWN BEFORE THE LORD FORTY DAYS_— Having mentioned the above instances of their preservation, he returns to what he had begun to say (ver. 18.) concerning his intercession with...
b. HOW TO PREVENT THE THREAT (Deuteronomy 9:1 to Deuteronomy 11:21) (1) BY A REALISTIC SELF-EVALUATION (Deuteronomy 9:1 to Deut
_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._ Thus I fell down before the Lord ... as I fell down at the...
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...
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...
THUS I FELL DOWN... — Literally, _And I fell down before Jehovah forty days and forty nights, as 1 had fallen down_ (originally on the fortieth day) _when the Lord said He would destroy you: i.e.,_ wh...
וָֽ אֶתְנַפַּ֞ל לִ פְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֗ה אֵ֣ת אַרְבּ
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...
Thus I fell down before the LORD (o) forty days and forty nights, as I fell down [at the first]; because the LORD had said he would destroy you. (o) By which is signified that God requires earnest co...
_Nights. See ver. 18. (Calmet) --- After specifying various seditions of the people, Moses returns to what he had been saying respecting the tables of the law, and shews with what difficulty he obtain...
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...
25._Thus I fell down before the Lord forty days _Again the narrative is blended together; for it is certain that this prayer was offered before he remained fasting in the mount during the second forty...
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...
THUS I FELL DOWN BEFORE THE LORD FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS, AS I FELL DOWN AT THE FIRST,.... Which Jarchi says are the selfsame said above, Deuteronomy 9:18, but doubled or repeated, because of the...
_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._ Ver. 25. _Thus I fell down._] The three former verses co...
_I fell down_ In a way of humiliation and supplication, on your behalf. _Forty days_ The same forty that were mentioned Deuteronomy 9:18, as appears by comparing this with the account given in Exodus,...
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....
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, and it was the intention of Moses to avert this catastrophe b...
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...
FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS; the same mentioned before, DEUTERONOMY 9:18, as appears, 1. By comparing this with Exodus, where this history is more fully related, and where this is said to be done twi...
"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 9:25 prostrated H5307 (H8691) before H6440 LORD H3068 forty H705 days H3117 forty H705 nights H3915
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE MOLTEN CALF INCIDENT (DEUTERONOMY 9:20). The molten calf incident had nearly been catastrophic both for the people and for Aaron. But Moses had acted swiftly to deal suitably...
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 9:25 FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS. Considering its placement in Exodus 32:11, it is unclear if this is the same period as in...
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 9:16; Deuteronomy 9:18...
I fell down forty days — The same as were mentioned before, Deuteronomy 9:18, as appears by comparing this with Exodus, where this history is more fully related, and where this is said to be done twic...