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Deuteronomy 9:25

Prayer

23 And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, “Go up and possess the land that I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him.

24 You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.

So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.

26 And I prayed to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance, whom You redeemed through Your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

27 Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
KJV
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.
WEB
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.
ASV
So I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Jehovah had said he would destroy you.
DARBY
So I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights, as I fell down; for Jehovah had said he would destroy you.
BLB
And I prostrated myself before the face of YHWH forty days and forty nights, when I kept prostrating myself because YHWH had said He would destroy you⁺.
ÅB
Så kastet jeg meg da ned for Herrens åsyn i de førti dager og førti netter dere vet, fordi Herren hadde sagt at han ville gjøre ende på dere.
OTB
Så jeg lå prostrert foran Herren de førti dagene og førti nettene fordi Herren hadde sagt at Han ville ødelegge deg.
B1930
Så kastet jeg mig da ned for Herrens åsyn i de firti dager og firti netter I vet, fordi Herren hadde sagt at han vilde gjøre ende på eder.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Deuteronomy 9:18

    Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.

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  • Deuteronomy 9:16

    And I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.

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