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Deuteronomy 9:12-24

What meaning of the deuteronomy 9:12-24 in the Bible?

What does Deuteronomy 9:12-24 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.

  • Deuteronomy 9:12

    And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.

  • Deuteronomy 9:13

    Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

  • Deuteronomy 9:14

    Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.

  • Deuteronomy 9:15

    So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

  • Deuteronomy 9:16

    And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.

  • Deuteronomy 9:17

    And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.

  • Deuteronomy 9:18

    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 LORD, to provoke him to anger.

  • Deuteronomy 9:19

    For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.

  • Deuteronomy 9:20

    And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.

  • Deuteronomy 9:21

    And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.

  • Deuteronomy 9:22

    And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.

  • Deuteronomy 9:23

    Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.

  • Deuteronomy 9:24

    Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.

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