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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 9:3

the LORD thy God = Jehovah thy 'Elohim. App-4 . consuming fire. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6 . shall destroy. Hebrew. shamad, exterminate. and destroy. Hebrew. 'abad, cause to perish. quickly. See note on Deuteronomy 7:22 . as = according as. See Exodus 23:29 , Exodus 23:30 . Moab subdued (Judges 3:30 ); Midian subdued (Judges 8:28 ); Ammon subdued (Judges 11:33 ); Philistines subdued (1 Samuel 7:13 ). Compare Nehemiah 9:24 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 9:4

wickedness. Hebrew. rash'a . App-44 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 9:5

Not. Compare Titus 3:5 . Rom 11:6 . 2 Timothy 1:9 . thy fathers. All three named in connection with the oath. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 9:3

Ver. 3. So shalt thou drive them out—quickly— Not the whole seven nations, whom, he had said before, God would drive out by little and little, chap. Deu 7:22 but so many as to make a settlement for the Israelites in Canaan. They were to attack the nations successively; but when they attacked one party, it is promised that they should destroy them quickly. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 9:4

4-6. Speak not thou in thine heart, . . . saying, For my righteousness the Lord hath brought me in to possess this land—Moses takes special care to guard his countrymen against the vanity of supposing that their own merits had procured them the distinguished privilege. The Canaanites were a hopelessly corrupt race, and deserved extermination; but history relates many remarkable instances in which God punished corrupt and guilty nations by the instrumentality of other people as bad as... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Deuteronomy 9:1-6

Moses explained the reasons God was giving Canaan to the Israelites. In addition to God’s promises to the patriarchs (Deuteronomy 9:5), God was using Israel as a broom to sweep away the spiritually and morally polluted Canaanites. Israel was His instrument of judgment. The people of God should not conclude that their righteousness was what merited God’s blessing. Essentially they were a stubborn people (Deuteronomy 9:6), unresponsive to God’s will, as the Canaanites had been. The expression... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Deuteronomy 9:1-11

Warning against self-righteousness 9:1-10:11"From a literary standpoint Deuteronomy 9:1 to Deuteronomy 10:11 is a travel narrative much like Deuteronomy 1:6 to Deuteronomy 3:29, with which, in fact, it shares much in common. For example, both are introduced (Deuteronomy 1:1-5; Deuteronomy 9:1-6) and concluded (Deuteronomy 3:29; Deuteronomy 10:11) by a setting in the plains of Moab in anticipation of the conquest of Canaan." [Note: Merrill, Deuteronomy, p. 189.] This pericope contains the second... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 9:1-29

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 their own strength that they are to dispossess the inhabitants of Canaan, but by the grace and power of God.8. Also in Horeb] Even at Horeb, in view of those awe-inspiring tokens of the divine majesty, and at the very time when the Law was being promulgated, the people corrupted themselves: see Exodus... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Deuteronomy 9:3

(3) Understand therefore.—Literally, the connection seems to be this: “The children of Anakim thou knowest—thou knowest also (the same word) to-day, that it is Jehovah thy God Himself that passeth over before thee, a consuming fire. He will destroy them, and He will make them to bow down before thee. And thou shalt make a conquest of them, and speedily annihilate them, according as Jehovah hath commanded thee.” read more