Deuteronomy 9:13

Then Yahweh said to me, ‘I have been watching these people, and I see that they are very stubborn.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12But then he said to me, ‘Go down the mountain immediately, because the people whom you are leading, the people whom you led out of Egypt, have committed a terrible sin! They have very quickly done what I commanded them not to do. They have made for themselves a metal statue of a calf to worship.’

14So do not try to stop me. I am going to destroy all of them, with the result that no one anywhere will remember ◄their names [MTY]/that they ever existed►. Then I will enable you to become the ancestor of a nation that will be more numerous and more powerful than they are.’

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Cross References

Genesis 18:21So I will go down now, and I will see if all the terrible things that I have heard are true or not true.”

Deuteronomy 9:6I want you to know that it is not because you are righteous that Yahweh our God is giving you this good/fertile land. I say that because you are not righteous; you are a very stubborn [IDM] people.”

Deuteronomy 31:27I say this because I know that these people are very stubborn [DOU]. They have rebelled against Yahweh all during the time that I have been with them, and they will rebel much more after I die!

Psalms 50:7God says, “My people, listen! You Israeli people, listen, as I, your God, say what you have done that is wrong.

Jeremiah 13:27I have seen that you act like men who are eager to commit adultery; you are like male horses that whinny when they desire to have sex with a female horse. I have seen that you worship disgusting idols in the fields and on the hills. You people of Jerusalem, terrible things will happen to you! How long will it be [RHQ] until you are acceptable to me again?”

Malachi 3:5This is what the Commander of the armies of angels says: “At that time, I will come to you to judge you. I will quickly testify against all those who practice sorcery/witchcraft, all those who have committed adultery, and all liars. I will testify against those who have not given their workers the pay/wages that they promised, those who ◄oppress/treat cruelly► widows and orphans, and those who do not allow foreigners who live among you to be treated fairly. I will testify that all the people who do those things do not revere me.”

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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