Deuteronomy 9:26

Therefore I prostrated myself unto Yahweh and said, My Lord Yahweh! Do not destroy thy people even thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed in thy greatness,—which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a firm hand.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

In Context

25Thus, then lay I prostrate before Yahweh, the forty days and the forty nights that I did lie prostrate,—because Yahweh spake of destroying you.

27Have remembrance of thy servants, of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob,—do not regard the obduracy of this people, or their lawlessness or their sin:

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Cross References

Exodus 15:13Thou hast led forth in thy lovingkindness, the people which thou hast redeemed,—Thou hast guided them in thy might into the home of thy holiness.

Exodus 34:9and said—If, I pray thee, I have found favour in thine eyes, O My Lord, I pray thee let My Lord go on in our midst,—although a stiff-necked people, it is, so wilt thou pardon our iniquity and our sin and take us as thine own.

Deuteronomy 7:8but because Yahweh loved you and because he would keep the oath which he sware unto your fathers, did Yahweh bring you forth with a firm hand,—and redeem thee out of the house of servants, out of the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 9:29Yet, they, are thy people and thine inheritance,—whom thou hast brought forth with thy great strength, and with thy stretched-out arm.

Deuteronomy 15:15and thou shalt remember that a servant, thou wast in the land of Egypt, and that Yahweh thy God, redeemed thee,—for this cause, am I commanding thee this thing, to-day.

Deuteronomy 26:7so we made outcry unto Yahweh God of our fathers,—and Yahweh hearkened unto our voice, and looked upon our humiliation and our toil, and our oppression;

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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