Deuteronomy 9:5-10 KJV

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:7-17

Human memory a repository of guilt. The memory of man is a book of God; and, though the entries may be temporarily obscured, yet the light of eternity will make them all legible. The present tendency of sin is to weaken memory; its effect, to obliterate recollection. Our profoundest gratitude is due to the man that reminds us of our falls. I. REMEMBER SIN IN THE LIGHT OF ITS OBJECT , VIZ . OF GOD . Discourtesy to a king is a graver offence than discourtesy to an... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:7-25

Moses reminds them of many instances of their rebelliousness by which they had provoked the Lord, from the time of their escape out of Egypt until their arrival in the plains of Moab. Their rebellion began even before they had wholly escaped from their oppressors, before they had passed through the Bed Sea ( Exodus 14:11 ). Even at Horeb, where, amid the most affecting manifestations alike of the Divine majesty and the Divine grace, just after the Lord had spoken to them directly out of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:7-29

Humiliating memories. Following up the idea of their waywardness, Moses proceeds to recall instances of it. The remembrance of sin is salutary, if it induces humiliation; but detrimental, if it induces a repetition of the sin. When assured of its forgiveness, we should forget it, so far as the remembrance would provoke repetition. Moses here recalls sin, that it may be salutary in the remembrance. I. THEIR REBELLION HAD BEEN CONTINUAL . ( Deuteronomy 9:7 , Deuteronomy 9:24... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:8-22

The sin at Horeb. Moses dwells on this sin, alike as memorable in itself, and as illustrating the proposition that the people had again and again forfeited their covenant standing by their acts of disobedience. I. THE ENORMITY OF THIS SIN . 1. It was a sin committed immediately after solemn covenant with God ( Deuteronomy 9:9 ). The transactions recorded in Exodus 24:3-9 were not yet forty days old. The people had literally heard God speaking to them. They had... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:9

The clause, Then I abode … water , is a parenthesis; the sentence runs on from. When I was gone , etc; to Then [not And] the Lord delivered unto me, etc. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:10

The day of the assembly ; the day when the people, called out by Moses, were gathered together in the plain at the foot of Mount Sinai ( Exodus 19:17 ). read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 9:8

Also in Horeb - Rather, “even in Horeb.” The time and circumstances made the apostasy at Horeb particularly inexcusable. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 9:5

Deuteronomy 9:5. Not for thy righteousness Neither for thy upright heart nor holy life, the two things which God, above all others, regards. Here, therefore, all merit in them is excluded: and they are given to know that, although the Canaanites were expelled for their national wickedness, they were not settled in their room for their righteousness. And surely they, who did not deserve this earthly Canaan, could not merit the kingdom of glory. To perform the word To show my faithfulness... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 9:7

Deuteronomy 9:7. Stiff-necked Rebellious and perverse, and so destitute of all pretence to righteousness. And thus our gaining possession of the heavenly Canaan must be ascribed to God’s power and grace, and not to our own might or merit. In him we must glory, and not in ourselves. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 9:8

Deuteronomy 9:8. Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord Rather, even in Horeb; for there is an emphasis in this. Even when your miraculous deliverance out of Egypt was fresh in your memories; when God had but newly manifested himself to you, and delivered you the law in so stupendous and awful a manner, and with such visible displays of his divine majesty; when he had just taken you into covenant with himself, and was actually conferring still further mercies upon you. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:7-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:7-25

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:7-29

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:8-22

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:10

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 9:8

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 9:5

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 9:7

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 9:8

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