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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:21

And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made ,.... Which was the object of their sin, which lay in making and worshipping it; see Isaiah 31:7 . and burnt it with fire, and stamped it ; with his feet after it was burnt, to bring it into small pieces: and ground it very small ; or, as the Targum of Jonathan,"ground it in a mortar well;'the burnt and broken pieces: even until it was as small as dust ; being ground to powder, as in Exodus 32:20 . and I cast the dust thereof... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:22

And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the Lord to wrath. These places are not mentioned in the strict order in which the provocations were made at them; for they provoked the Lord at Massah by murmuring for water, before they provoked him at Taberah, by complaining as it should seem of their journeying; for Massah was before they came to Sinai, and Taberah after they departed from thence; though some, as Aben Ezra observes, say that Taberah is Massah; but it... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:23

Likewise when the Lord sent you from Kadeshbarnea ,.... From whence the spies were sent to search the land, though previous to it they had the following order to go up and possess it; see Numbers 32:8 . saying, go up and possess the land which I have given you ; this they were bid to do, before they desired the spies might be sent to search it first; and after they had returned and made their report, they were encouraged to go up and take possession of it: then ye rebelled against... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:24

You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you. Either from the time he first had and took knowledge of them and visited them, before his departure from Egypt to the land of Midian; (see Exodus 2:11 compared with Acts 7:25 ); or from the time that he was sent to them to deliver them out of Egypt; see Exodus 5:20 and especially from the time he brought them into the wilderness. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:25

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 order of his prayer. The words "at the first" are not in the text; and, as before observed, we do not read that Moses fell down at the first forty days he was in the mount, unless it can be thought he did, Exodus 32:11 , wherefore this falling down seems to be as he fell down at the second... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:26

And I prayed therefore unto the Lord ,.... What follows is a different prayer from that in Exodus 32:31 and agrees better with that in Deuteronomy 9:11 , delivered before he came down from the mount, yet could not be the same, because delivered at another forty days and nights: and said, O Lord God, destroy not thy people, and thine inheritance : because they were his inheritance, a people whom he had chosen for his peculiar treasure; this is the first argument used, another follows:... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:27

Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob ,.... The covenant he had made with them, the promises he had made to them of the multiplication of their seed, and of giving the land of Canaan to them; which is a third argument used with the Lord not to destroy them: look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin ; nor to the natural temper and disposition of the people, which was to be stubborn, obstinate, stiffnecked, and self-willed; nor to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:28

Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say ,.... The land of Egypt, the inhabitants of it: because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them ; the land of Canaan, the inhabitants of it being so mighty, and their cities so strongly fortified. Here Moses expresses his concern for the glory of God, and the honour of his perfections, and makes that a fourth argument why he should not destroy them: and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:29

Yet they are thy people ,.... Though they had sinned against him: and thine inheritance ; which he would not forsake and cast off; at least Moses hoped on this account he would not, and makes use thereof as an argument with him why he should not, and which he repeats, adding in effect what he had said before: which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and stretched out arm ; even out of the land of Egypt; the doing of which was plainly the effect of his almighty power, and an... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 9:12

Thy people - have corrupted themselves - Debased themselves by making and worshipping an Egyptian idol. See on Exodus 32 (note). read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:29

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 9:12

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