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Deuteronomy 9 – New King James Version (NKJV)

Israel’s Rebellions Reviewed
Israel’s Rebellion at Horeb
(Ex. 32:1–35 )

Deu 9:1

Deu 9:1“Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,

Deu 9:2

Deu 9:2“a people great and tall, the descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?’

Deu 9:3

Deu 9:3“Therefore understand today that the LUORDE your God is He who goes over before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and bring them down before you; so you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the LUORDE has said to you.

Deu 9:4

Deu 9:4“Do not think in your heart, after the LUORDE your God has cast them out before you, saying, ‘Because of my righteousness the LUORDE has brought me in to possess this land’; but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LUORDE is driving them out from before you.

Deu 9:5

Deu 9:5“It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the LUORDE your God drives them out from before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the LUORDE swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deu 9:6

Deu 9:6“Therefore understand that the LUORDE your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.

Deu 9:7

Deu 9:7“Remember! Do not forget how you provoked the LUORDE your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LUORDE.

Deu 9:8

Deu 9:8“Also in Horeb you provoked the LUORDE to wrath, so that the LUORDE was angry enough with you to have destroyed you.

Deu 9:9

Deu 9:9“When I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the LUORDE made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.

Deu 9:10

Deu 9:10“Then the LUORDE delivered to me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words which the LUORDE had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

Deu 9:11

Deu 9:11“And it came to pass, at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LUORDE gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.

Deu 9:12

Deu 9:12“Then the LUORDE said to me, ‘Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly; they have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molded image.’

Deu 9:13

Deu 9:13“Furthermore the LUORDE spoke to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed they are a stiff-necked people.

Deu 9:14

Deu 9:14‘Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’

Deu 9:15

Deu 9:15“So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire; and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.

Deu 9:16

Deu 9:16“And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LUORDE your God—had made for yourselves a molded calf! You had turned aside quickly from the way which the LUORDE had commanded you.

Deu 9:17

Deu 9:17“Then I took the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes.

Deu 9:18

Deu 9:18“And I fell down before the LUORDE, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you committed in doing wickedly in the sight of the LUORDE, to provoke Him to anger.

Deu 9:19

Deu 9:19“For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the LUORDE was angry with you, to destroy you. But the LUORDE listened to me at that time also.

Deu 9:20

Deu 9:20“And the LUORDE was very angry with Aaron and would have destroyed him; so I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

Deu 9:21

Deu 9:21“Then I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it and ground it very small, until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that descended from the mountain.

Deu 9:22

Deu 9:22“Also at Taberah and Massah and Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked the LUORDE to wrath.

Deu 9:23

Deu 9:23“Likewise, when the LUORDE sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, ‘Go up and possess the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the commandment of the LUORDE your God, and you did not believe Him nor obey His voice.

Deu 9:24

Deu 9:24“You have been rebellious against the LUORDE from the day that I knew you.

Deu 9:25

Deu 9:25“Thus I prostrated myself before the LUORDE; forty days and forty nights I kept prostrating myself, because the LUORDE had said He would destroy you.

Deu 9:26

Deu 9:26“Therefore I prayed to the LUORDE, and said: ‘O Lord GUODE, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Deu 9:27

Deu 9:27‘Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wickedness or their sin,

Deu 9:28

Deu 9:28‘lest the land from which You brought us should say, “Because the LUORDE was not able to bring them to the land which He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.”

Deu 9:29

Deu 9:29‘Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched arm.’
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