So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.
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So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.
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Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
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So I fell down before the LORD the forty days and forty nights that I fell down; because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 9:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 9:18 I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
- Deuteronomy 9:16 I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God. You had made yourselves a molded calf. You had quickly turned away from the way which Yahweh had commanded you.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Whereby is signified that God requireth earnest continuance in…
Whereby is signified that God requireth earnest continuance in prayer.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 9:25 Thus I fell down before the LORD…
Deu 9:25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down [at the first]; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
Ver. 25. Thus I fell down.] The three former verses come in by a parenthesis. Here he returns again to the history of his interceding for them the second time.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Forty days and forty nights; the same mentioned before,…
Forty days and forty nights; the same mentioned before, Deu 9:18, as appears,
1. By comparing this with Exodus, where this history is more fully related, and where this is said to be done twice only.
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2. By the occasion and matter of Moses’s prayer here following, which is the same with the former.
3. By the words here following,
as I fell down at first, which show that this was the second time of his so doing.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,.... The covenant…
Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,.... The covenant he had made with them, the promises he had made to them of the multiplication of their seed, and of giving the land of Canaan to them; which is a third argument used with the Lord not to destroy them:
look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin; nor to the natural temper and disposition of the people, which was to be stubborn, obstinate, stiffnecked, and self-willed; nor to their wickedness, which appears in various instances; nor to that particular sin of idolatry they had now been guilty, of; tacitly owning that if God looked to these things, there was sufficient reason to destroy them.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain I fell down forty days - The same as…
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.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Deu 9:25. I fell down — In a way…
Deu 9:25. I fell down — In a way of humiliation and supplication, on your behalf. Forty days — The same forty that were mentioned Deu 9:18, as appears by comparing this with the account given in Exodus, where this history is more fully related, and where this is related to have been done twice only. See Exo 32:10; Exo 33:5.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Nights. See ver. 18. (Calmet) --- After specifying various…
Nights. See ver. 18. (Calmet) --- After specifying various seditions of the people, Moses returns to what he had been saying respecting the tables of the law, and shews with what difficulty he obtained pardon for the people, and the second tables. (Haydock) --- Some people believe that Moses was thrice 40 days in the mountain. He mentions the prayer which he addressed to God before his first descent, Exodus xxxii. 11. (Menochius)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Thus I fell down before the Lord forty days…
Thus I fell down before the Lord forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first--After the enumeration of various acts of rebellion, he had mentioned the outbreak at Kadesh-barnea, which, on a superficial reading of this verse, would seem to have led Moses to a third and protracted season of humiliation. But on a comparison of this passage with Num 14:5, the subject and language of this prayer show that only the second act of intercession (Deu 9:18) is now described in fuller detail.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 25-29. Remember thy servants — After the above enumeration…
25-29. Remember thy servants — After the above enumeration of the principal occasions when the people awakened the anger of Jehovah, Moses returns to the apostasy at Horeb. He repeats the substance of his intercession with Jehovah, as given in Exo_32:11-13.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 25. So I fell down, etc.] Having recounted in…
25. So I fell down, etc.] Having recounted in Deu_9:22-24 the accumulated burdens of the people’s sins (there is therefore no need to doubt the originality of these verses, as Steuernagel does) under which he fell down, the speaker returns to the fact of his falling; and in—
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (25) Thus I fell down . . .—Literally, And…
(25) Thus I fell down . . .—Literally, And I fell down before Jehovah forty days and forty nights, as 1 had fallen down (originally on the fortieth day) when the Lord said He would destroy you: i.e., when He told Moses of the calf.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Ver. 25-29. Having enumerated these instances of the rebelliousness…
Ver. 25-29. Having enumerated these instances of the rebelliousness of the people, Moses reverts to the apostasy at Sinai, in order still more to impress on the minds of the people the conviction that not for any righteousness or merit of theirs, but solely of his own grace, was God fulfilling to them his covenant with their fathers.
Thus I fell down before the Lord forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; rather, the forty days and forty nights in which I fell down. The reference is to the intercession before Moses came down from the mount, described in Exo_32:11-13. (For the form of the expression, cf. Deu_1:46)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
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Moses continues reminding the people of Israel about what happened in the past.
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lay facedown before Yahweh
"lay with my face on the ground." See how you translated this in Deuteronomy 9:18.
forty days and forty nights
"40 days and 40 nights" (See: Numbers)
you have redeemed
Moses speaks as if Yahweh had rescued the Israelites by paying money to free them from slavery. AT: "you have rescued" (See: Metaphor)
through your greatness
The word "greatness" is a metonym for Yahweh's great power. AT: "through your great power" (See: Metonymy)
with a mighty hand
Here "a mighty hand" refers to Yahweh's power. See how you translated similar words in Deuteronomy 4:34. AT: "with your mighty power" (See: Metaphor)
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inherit
redeem
might
hand
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