Deuteronomy 9:13

Furthermore Adonai spoke to me, saying, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.

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Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

In Context

12Adonai said to me, “Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt [Abode of slavery] have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned aside out of the way which I enjoined them. They have made a molten image for themselves!”

14Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.”

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Cross References

Genesis 18:21I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”

Deuteronomy 9:6Know therefore, that Adonai your God does not give you this good land to possess for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.

Deuteronomy 31:27For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against Adonai. How much more after my death? (Maftir ·Conclusion·)

Psalms 50:7“ Sh'ma ·Hear obey·, my people, and I will speak; 2 Israel [God prevails], and I will testify against you. 1 I am God, your God. 1

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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