John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 10:5
And I turned myself ,.... From the Lord, out of whose hands he had received the tables: and came down from the mount ; with the two tables in his hand as before, one in one hand, and the other in the other hand: and put the tables in the ark which I had made ; or ordered to be made: and there they be, as the Lord commanded me ; there they were when Moses rehearsed what is contained in this book, on the plains of Moab, about thirty eight years after the putting them, into it; and... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 10:1-11
There were four things in and by which God showed himself reconciled to Israel and made them truly great and happy, and in which God's goodness took occasion from their badness to make him the more illustrious:? I. He gave them his law, gave it to them in writing, as a standing pledge of his favour. Though the tables that were first written were broken, because Israel had broken the commandments, and God might justly break the covenant, yet when his anger was turned away the tables were... read more