CHAPTER 9 LET THEM NOT BECOME SELF-RIGHTEOUS, FOR THEY ARE A VERY STUBBORN PEOPLE. The thought of their forgetting Yahweh and taking the credit for themselves about their possession of the land and its wealth (Deuteronomy 8:17) and turning to graven images is now taken up. He fears lest when they h... [ Continue Reading ]
THE EVIDENCE IS NOW GIVEN THAT THEY ARE A STIFFNECKED PEOPLE (DEUTERONOMY 9:7). Taking up from Deuteronomy 9:6 he now establishes that they are a stiffnecked people. It may be argued that the sins which will now be described were mainly of their parents, and that is true, but some of them were certa... [ Continue Reading ]
MOSES NOW REMINDS THEM OF HOW SERIOUS THE SITUATION HAD BEEN AND HOW HIS INTERCESSION HAD SAVED THEM (DEUTERONOMY 9:13). Yahweh had been so affected by their sin that He had wanted to destroy them, and he offered instead to fulfil His promise to Abraham to give the land to his seed by raising up de... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE MOLTEN CALF INCIDENT (DEUTERONOMY 9:20). The molten calf incident had nearly been catastrophic both for the people and for Aaron. But Moses had acted swiftly to deal suitably with the molten calf and the people in the camp, and then he had gone up the Mount and pleaded for t... [ Continue Reading ]