Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Deuteronomy 9:18
I fell down, in way of humiliation and supplication, on your behalf.
I fell down, in way of humiliation and supplication, on your behalf.
I FELL DOWN BEFORE THE LORD, AS AT THE FIRST - Moses interceded for the people before he came down from the mountain the first time Exodus 32:11. This intercession is only briefly alluded to in this v...
5. WARNING AGAINST SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS AND THEIR PREVIOUS FAILURES Chapter S 9:1-10:11 _ 1. The warning (Deuteronomy 9:1)_ 2. The failures of the past (Deuteronomy 9:7) 3. The intercession of Moses...
DEUTERONOMY 9:7_ b-_ DEUTERONOMY 10:11 (or DEUTERONOMY 10:9). Narrative of the legislation on Mount Horeb; for the purpose apparently of illustrating...
WICKEDLY. Hebrew. _ra'a_, the wicked thing: i.e. idolatry. See App-44....
_as at the first_ Refers to what follows it the length of time and the fasting not to what precedes the falling down before God. This intercession seems to be the same as that described in Deuteronomy...
b. HOW TO PREVENT THE THREAT (Deuteronomy 9:1 to Deuteronomy 11:21) (1) BY A REALISTIC SELF-EVALUATION (Deuteronomy 9:1 to Deut
_AND I FELL DOWN BEFORE THE LORD, AS AT THE FIRST, FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS: I DID NEITHER EAT BREAD, NOR DRINK WATER, BECAUSE OF ALL YOUR SINS WHICH YE SINNED, IN DOING WICKEDLY IN THE SIGHT OF TH...
PRACTICAL EXHORTATIONS (CONTINUED) The rebellions and provocations of the wilderness are recalled, to show the people that it is not of their own merit that they are to inherit the promises, nor by t...
I FELL DOWN] i.e. in intercession: see on Numbers 16:4. The words AS AT THE FIRST refer probably to the intercession on the mount spoken of in Exodus 32:11 : cp. Exodus 32:31. 22-24, giving other inst...
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 9 V1 ‘Listen to this, *Israelites. Now you will go across the River Jordan. You will go into th...
AND I FELL DOWN BEFORE THE LORD, AS AT THE FIRST, FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS. — Moses had already interceded for them in Sinai before he came down on the fortieth day (Exodus 32:11). He now spent for...
וָֽ אֶתְנַפַּל֩ לִ פְנֵ֨י יְהוָ֜ה כָּ †...
ISRAEL'S ELECTION, AND MOTIVES FOR FAITHFULNESS Deuteronomy 9:1; Deuteronomy 10:1; Deuteronomy 11:1 THE remaining Chapter s of this special introduction to the statement of the actual laws beginni
MOSES' INTERCESSION FOR A REBELLIOUS PEOPLE Deuteronomy 9:15 During the remainder of this chapter Moses continues to remind the people of their rebellions. It is well, when we are tempted to self-adu...
It is interesting to note that as the final announcement of their approaching entrance to the land was made the difficulties which the people had faced at Kadesh\-barnea were recognized as still confr...
Sins. Many believe that Moses spent the whole time in obtaining pardon. Hiscuni agrees herein with the other Rabbins, only he thinks Moses was all the time in the tabernacle. Other 40 days, or a third...
It is not so clearly proved as to leave the point unquestionable, whether Moses means a second continuance and abstinence of forty days and nights in the mount as before. The particular manner of word...
In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be called an abstract typical system. That is, we see in them a number of institutions laid down by Jehovah, the pattern of which wa...
18._And I fell down before the Lord _The order of the narrative is confused; for this fact of which he speaks did not precede his second ascent into the mount, when he was commanded to prepare the sec...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 8, 9, 10, AND 11. In chapter 8, in the most instructive and touching language as to the care God had taken of them, while keeping them in dependence, and His...
AND I FELL DOWN BEFORE THE LORD,.... In prayer for Israel who had sinned; but this he did not immediately after he had broken the tables, but when he had first ground the calf to powder, strewed it on...
And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the...
1 Moses disswadeth them from the opinion of their owne righteousnesse, by rehearsing their seuerall rebellions. 1 HEARE, O Israel, thou art to passe ouer Iordan this day, to goe in, to possesse natio...
And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights, Exodus 32:31; I DID NEITHER EAT BREAD NOR DRINK WATER BECAUSE OF ALL YOUR SINS WHICH YE SINNED, IN DOING WICKEDLY IN THE...
Instances of Rebellious Behavior. In support of the term "stiff-necked people," which he had just applied to the children of Israel, Moses now adduces a few incidents from the wilderness journey....
WARNINGS BECAUSE OF PREVIOUS REBELLIONS (vs.1-29) In spite of Israel's many failures in the wilderness. God would keep His Word to bring them to the land of promise. Israel is told to go in and dispo...
7-29 That the Israelites might have no pretence to think that God brought them to Canaan for their righteousness, Moses shows what a miracle of mercy it was, that they had not been destroyed in the w...
"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; a people great and tall, the children of th...
Deuteronomy 9:18 down H5307 (H8691) before H6440 LORD H3068 first H7223 forty H705 days H3117 forty H705 nights
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, an...
CONTENTS: Israel reminded of their unworthiness to possess the land in themselves. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. CONCLUSION: Our gaining of the heavenly Canaan must be attribu...
Deuteronomy 9:1. _This day;_ at this time, or in the course of a month. Day is often used in scripture for the whole of a man's life, for a season, and for a short time. Deuteronomy 9:19. _I was afrai...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 9:7 The golden calf incident is retold at length to demonstrate Israel’s stubbornness. ⇐...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 9:18 This is the second period of FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS (see vv. Deuteronomy 9:9). The L
CRITICAL NOTES.—Moses dissuadeth them from self-righteousness by recital of past sins and rebellion. DEUTERONOMY 9:1. This day, this time. Once before they had been at the borders of Canaan; but did n...
EXPOSITION DISSUASIVES FROM SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS. DEUTERONOMY 9:1 Israel might acknowledge that it was of God's free gift that they possessed the land of Canaan, and yet might flatter themselves by th...
As we have told you the word Deuteronomy means the second law. It is really a rehearsal, sort of a capsulation by Moses of the law that was given. Deuteronomy itself, though it covers the forty years...
2 Samuel 12:16; Deuteronomy 9:9; Exodus 32:10; Exodus 34:28;...
I fell down — In a way of humiliation and supplication, on your behalf....