Deuteronomy 9:19

For I have been afraid because of the anger and the fury with which YHWH has been angry against you, to destroy you; and YHWH also listens to me at this time.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

18and I throw myself before YHWH, as at first, [for] forty days and forty nights; I have not eaten bread and I have not drunk water, because of all your sins which you have sinned by doing evil in the eyes of YHWH, to make Him angry.

20And YHWH has showed Himself very angry with Aaron, to destroy him, and I also pray for Aaron at that time.

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Cross References

Exodus 32:10and now, leave Me alone, and My anger burns against them, and I consume them, and I make you become a great nation.”

Exodus 33:17And YHWH says to Moses, “Even this thing which you have spoken I do; for you have found grace in My eyes, and I know you by name.”

Deuteronomy 9:8even in Horeb you have made YHWH angry, and YHWH shows Himself angry against you—to destroy you.

Nehemiah 1:2and Hanani, one of my brothers, he and men of Judah come in, and I ask them concerning the Jews, the escaped part that have been left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem;

Psalms 106:19They make a calf in Horeb, || And bow themselves to a molten image,

Amos 7:2and it has come to pass, when it has finished to consume the herb of the land, that I say, “Lord YHWH, please forgive, || How does Jacob arise—for he [is] small?”

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 9:8-29

Cautions Against Self-Righteousness; Israel Reminded of Their Rebellions. ( b. c. 1451.) 7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the Lord . 8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry with you to have destroyed you. 9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the… Read the whole commentary →

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