Deuteronomy Chapter 9

Deuteronomy Chapter 9
1 Hear O Israel, Thou shalt pass over
Jordan this day, to go in and to possess
nations greater and mightier than thyself,
and cities great and walled up to
heaven,
2 A people great and tall, even 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 that this day 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 face: so thou shalt cast
them out and destroy them suddenly, as
the Lord hath said unto thee.
4 Speak not thou in thine heart (after that
the Lord thy God hath cast them out
before thee) saying, For my
righteousness the Lord hath brought me
in, to possess this land: but for the
wickedness of these nations the Lord
hath cast them out before thee.
5 For thou enterest not to inherit their
land for thy righteousness, or for thy
upright heart: but for the wickedness of
those nations, the Lord thy God doth cast
them out before thee, and that he might
perform the word which the Lord thy
God swear unto thy fathers, Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob.
6 Understand therefore, that the Lord thy
God giveth thee not this good land to
possess it for thy righteousness: for thou
art a stiff necked people. 7 Remember,
and forget not, how thou provokest the
Lord thy God to anger in the wilderness:
since the day that thou didst depart out of
the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this
place ye have rebelled against the Lord.
8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to
anger so that the Lord was wroth with
you, even to destroy you.
9 When I was gone up into the mount, to
receive the tables of stone, the tables , I
say, of the covenant, which the Lord
made with you: and I abode in the mount
forty days and forty nights, and I neither
ate bread nor yet drank water:
10 Then the Lord delivered me two
tables of stone, written with the finger of
God, and in them was contained
according to all the words which the
Lord had said unto you in the mount out
of the midst of the fire, in the day of the
assembly.
11 And when the forty days and forty
nights were ended, the Lord gave me the
two tables of stone, the tables, I say, of
the covenant. 12 And the Lord said unto
me, Arise, get thee down quickly from
hence: for thy people which thou hast
brought out of Egypt, have corrupt their
ways: they are soon turned out of the
way, which I commanded them: they
have made them a molten image.
13 Furthermore, the Lord spake unto me,
saying, I have seen this people, and
behold, it is a stiff necked people.
14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them,
and put out their name from under
heaven, and I will make of thee a mighty
nation, and greater than they be. 15 So I
returned, and came down from the mount
(and the mount burned with fire, and the
two tables of the covenant were in my
two hands) 16 Then I looked, and
behold, ye had sinned against the Lord
your God: for ye had made you a molten
calf, and had turned quickly out of the
way which the Lord had commanded
you.
17 Therefore I took the two tables, and
cast them out of my two hands, and break
them before your eyes.
18 And I fell down before the Lord,
forty days, and forty nights, as before: I
neither ate bread nor drank water,
because of all your sins, which ye had
committed, in doing wickedly in the
sight of the Lord, in that ye provoked
him unto wrath.
19 (For I was afraid of the wrath and
indignation, wherewith the Lord was
moved against you, even to destroy you)
yet the Lord heard me at that time also.
20 Likewise the Lord was very angry
with Aaron, even to destroy him: but at
that time I prayed also for Aaron.
21 And I took your sin , I mean the calf
which ye had made, and burned him with
fire, and stamped him and ground him
small, even unto very dust: and I cast the
dust thereof into the river, that
descended out of the mount. 22 Also in
Taberah, and in Massah and in
Kibrothhattaavah ye provoked the Lord
to anger.
23 Likewise when the Lord sent you
from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up, and
possess the land which I have given you,
then ye rebelled against the
commandment of the Lord your God, and
believed him not, nor hearkened unto his
voice.
24 Ye have been rebellious unto the
Lord, since the day that I knew you. 25
Then I fell down before the Lord forty
days and forty nights, as I fell down
before, because the Lord had said, that
he would destroy you. 26 And I prayed
unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God,
destroy not thy people and thine
inheritance, which thou hast redeemed
through thy greatness, whom thou hast
brought out of Egypt by a mighty hand.
27 Remember thy servants Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob: look not to the
stubbornness of this people, nor to their
wickedness, nor to their sin, 28 Lest the
country, whence thou broughtest them,
say, Because the Lord was not able to
bring them into the land which he
promised them, or because he hated
them, he carried them out, to slay them in
the wilderness. 29 Yet they are thy
people, and thine inheritance, which thou
broughtest out by thy mighty power, and
by thy stretched out arm.