Chapter 9:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 Numbers Joshua
Deuteronomy 9
A promise of Canaan, ver. 1-3. A caution, not to ascribe this to
their own merit, ver. 4-6. A rehearsal of their various rebellions,
ver. 7-24. and of Moses's intercession for them, ver. 25-29.
Verse 1. Hear, O Israel - This seems to be a new discourse, delivered at
some distance of time from the former, probably on the next
sabbath-day. This day - That is, shortly, within a little time, the
word day being often put for time. Nations - That is, the land of
those nations. Mightier than thyself - This he adds, that they might
not trust to their own strength, but rely upon God's help for the
destroying them, and, after the work was done, might ascribe the
glory of it to God alone, and not to themselves.
Verse 2. Who can stand - This seems to be a proverb used in those
times.
Verse 5. Not for thy righteousness - Neither for thy upright heart, nor
holy life, which are the two things which God above all things
regards. And consequently he excludes all merit. And surely they
who did not deserve this earthly Canaan, could not merit the
kingdom of glory. To perform the word - To shew my faithfulness
in accomplishing that promise which I graciously made and
confirmed with my oath.
Verse 6. Stiff-necked - Rebellious and perverse, and so destitute of all
pretense of righteousness. And thus our gaining possession of the
heavenly Canaan, must be ascribed to God's power, not our own
might, and to God's Grace, not our own merit. In him we must
glory.
Verse 8. In Horeb - When your miraculous deliverance out of Egypt was
fresh in memory; when God had but newly manifested himself to
you in so stupendous and dreadful a manner, and had taken you
into covenant with himself, when God was actually conferring
farther mercies upon you.
Verse 10. With the finger of God - Immediately and miraculously,
which was done not only to procure the greater reverence to the
law, but also to signify, that it is the work of God alone to write
this law upon the tables of men's hearts. In the day of the
assembly - That is, when the people were gathered by God's
command to the bottom of mount Sinai, to hear and receive God's
ten commandments from his own mouth.
Verse 14. Let me alone! - Stop me not by thy intercession.
Verse 17. I brake them before your eyes - Not by an unbridled passion,
but in zeal for God's honour, and by the direction of God's spirit,
to signify to tine people, that the covenant between God and them
contained in those tables was broken and they were now cast out
of God's favour, and could expect nothing from him but fiery
indignation.
Verse 18. I fell down - In a way of humiliation and supplication, on your
behalf.
Verse 21. Into the brook - That there might be no monument or
remembrance of it left.
Verse 25. I fell down forty days - The same as were mentioned before,
ver. 18, as appears by comparing this with Exodus, where this
history is more fully related, and where this is said to be done
twice only.
Verse 26. Through thy greatness - Through the greatness of thy power,
which appeared most eminently in that work.
Verse 27. Thy servants - That is, the promise made and sworn to thy
servants.
Verse 29. Thy people - Whom thou hast chosen to thyself out of all
mankind, and publickly owned them for thine, and hast purchased
and redeemed them from the Egyptians.
Chapter 9:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 Numbers Joshua
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