Bible Commentary

For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also. 19. For I was afraid ] or trembled Deu 28:60. that time also ] Obscure, and probably an editorial addition, unless the reference is to … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 9:19”

And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 18. as at the first ] Refers to what … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 9:18”

And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. 17. Vivid variation and expansion of Exo 32:19 b: and Moses’ anger waxed hot and he cast the tables out of his hands and brake them beneath the mount. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 9:17”

And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, [and] had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you. And I looked,…. When he was come down from the mount, and was nigh the camp: and, behold, ye had … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 9:16”

So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant [were] in my two hands. 15. So I turned and came down, etc.] Exo 32:15. and the mount burned with fire ] A circumstantial clause: the mount all the time burning with fire: … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 9:15”

Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they. 14. let me alone] desist from me; Exo 32:10 let me rest, give me peace. destroy ] See on Deu 1:27. blot out their name, etc.] … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 9:14”

Furthermore the LORD spoke unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it [is] a stiffnecked people: 13. stiffnecked ] See on Deu 9:6. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying,…. After he had given him the two tables, and before his departure from the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 9:13”

And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted [themselves]; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image. 12. Taken from E, Exo 32:7-8 a (on … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 9:12”

And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, [that] the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, [even] the tables of the covenant. 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 … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 9:11”

And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them [was written] according to all the words, which the LORD spoke with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. 10. tables of stone written with the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 9:10”