Deuteronomy 9:6

And you shall know today, that it is not for your righteousnesses the Lord your God gives you this good land to inherit, for you are a stiff-necked people.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.

In Context

5Not for your righteousness, nor for the holiness of your heart, do you go in to inherit their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord will destroy them from before you, and that he may establish the covenant, which the Lord swore to our fathers, to Abraam, and to Isaac, and to Jacob.

7Remember, forget not, how much you provoked the Lord your God in the wilderness: from the day that you⌃ came forth out of Egypt, even till you⌃ came into this place, you⌃ continued to be disobedient toward the Lord.

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Cross References

Exodus 32:9These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 34:9and said, If I have found grace before you, let my Lord go with us; for the people is stiff-necked: and you shall take away our sins and our iniquities, and we will be yours.

Deuteronomy 9:3And you shall know today, that the Lord your God he shall go before your face: he is a consuming fire; he shall destroy them, and he shall turn them back before you, and shall destroy them quickly, as the Lord said to you.

Deuteronomy 9:24You⌃ were disobedient + 9:24 Or, towards the Lord. in the things relating to the Lord from the day in which he became known to you.

Deuteronomy 31:27For I know your provocation, and your stiff neck; for yet during my life with you at this day, you⌃ have been provoking in your conduct toward God: how shall you⌃ not also be so after my death?

2 Chronicles 36:13in that he rebelled against king Nabuchodonosor, which he adjured him by God not to do: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart, so as not to return to the Lord God of Israel.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 9:2-7

Victory Promised. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven, 2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak! 3 Understand therefore this day, that the Lord thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy… Read the whole commentary →

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