Deuteronomy 9:1

CHAPTER IX

The people are informed that they shall shortly pass over

Jordan, and that God shall go over before them, to expel the

ancient inhabitants, 1-3.

They are cautioned not to suppose that it is on account of their

righteousness that God is to give them that land, 4-6.

They are exhorted to remember their various provocations of the

Divine Majesty, especially at Horeb, 7-14;

and how Moses interceded for them, and destroyed the golden

calf, 15-21.

How they murmured at Taberah, 22;

and rebelled at Kadesh-barnea, 23;

and had been perverse from the beginning, 24.

An account of the intercession of Moses in their behalf, 25-29.

NOTES ON CHAP. IX

Verse Deuteronomy 9:1. Thou art to pass over Jordan this day] היום haiyom, this time; they had come thirty-eight years before this nearly to the verge of the promised land, but were not permitted at that day or time to pass over, because of their rebellions; but this time they shall certainly pass over. This was spoken about the eleventh month of the fortieth year of their journeying, and it was on the first month of the following year they passed over; and during this interim Moses died.