Deuteronomy 9:7-11

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:7-29

That they might have no pretence to think that God brought them to Canaan for their righteousness, Moses here shows them what a miracle of mercy it was that they had not long ere this been destroyed in the wilderness: ?Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God (Deut. 9:7); so far from purchasing his favour, thou hast many a time laid thyself open to his displeasure.? Their fathers? provocations are here charged upon them; for, if God had dealt with their fathers according... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:7

Remember, and forget not how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness ,.... Aben Ezra remarks that this was after they journeyed from Horeb; but before they came thither, even as soon as, they were in the wilderness, they provoked the Lord, as by their murmuring for water at Marah, when they had been but three days in the wilderness; and for bread in the wilderness of Sin, and for water again at Rephidim; all which were before they came to Horeb or Sinai, and which agrees... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:8

Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath ,.... The word "also" shows that they had provoked him before, but this instance is given as a very notorious one; here they made the golden calf and worshipped it, while Moses was on the mount with God, receiving instructions from him for their good. Near to this place a rock had been smitten for them, from whence flowed water for the refreshment of them and their cattle; here the Lord appeared in the glory of his majesty to them, and from hence,... read more

John Gill

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

When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone ,.... The tables of the law, the same law which forbid idolatry, and which they had lately heard from the mouth of God himself: even the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you ; which they had agreed unto, and solemnly promised they would observe and do, Exodus 24:7 , then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights ; and this long stay was one reason of their falling into idolatry, not knowing what... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:10

And the Lord delivered unto me two tables of stone, written with the finger of God ,.... The letters were of his devising and forming, the writing was his, the engraving them on the stones was his own doing; and which was done to show its original, to stamp a divine authority on it, and to denote its duration; see Exodus 31:18 . and on them was written according to all the words which the Lord spake with you in the mount ; the ten commands, exactly in the same order, and in the same... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:11

And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights ,.... The time of Moses's stay in the mount, when it was just up, and not before: that the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant , as in Deuteronomy 9:9 . Aben Ezra observes, that this shows that the day the tables were given to Moses the calf was made. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 9:10

Tables of stone - See the notes on Exodus 31:18 , Exodus 32:15 ; (note), and Exodus 32:16 . read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 9:7

Verse 7 7.Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst In order to reprove the ingratitude of the people, Moses here briefly refers to some of their offenses; but he principally insists on the history of their revolt, in which their extreme and most detestable impiety betrayed itself. He therefore narrates this crime in almost the identical words which he had previously used in Exodus. He begins by urging them often to reflect upon their sins, lest they should ever be forgotten; and this... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:4-7

Self-righteousness. Strange capacity of human nature for self-delusion! It was an extraordinary error to fall into, when the Jew began to fancy that by his own power and might he had conquered Palestine ( Deuteronomy 8:17 ). Yet more extraordinary was the delusion that he had been brought into the land on account of righteousness. The two errors sprang from the same root. The worldly mind, which spurns at the acknowledgment of God's bestowal of what it has, has its counterpart in the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 9:6-12

A six-weeks' religion; or, emotional religiousness not vital godliness. The homiletic treatment of the incidents referred to in De 9:1—10:5, will require a careful comparison of these chapters with the fuller account in Exodus 32-34. The special object, however, which Moses has here in view, is to show how entirely God's mercy to Israel was a self-moved one, and that it was not due to any virtue on the part of the people, So far from that, they had been wayward from the first. Even in... read more

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