John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:18
And I fell down before the Lord ,.... In prayer for Israel who had sinned; but this he did not immediately after he had broken the tables, but when he had first ground the calf to powder, strewed it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink it; and when he had chided Aaron, and ordered the sons of Levi to slay every man his brother: as at the first forty days and forty mights ; which is to be connected, I think, not with what goes before; for we read not that he fell down... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:17
And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands ,.... In wrath and indignation at the sin they were guilty of: and brake them before your eyes ; as an emblem of their breach of them by transgressing them. read more