Deuteronomy 9:7
5 It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6 Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.
Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.
8 At Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.
9 When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.
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.
Compare
- BSB
- Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.
- KJV
- Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.
- WEB
- Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.
- ASV
- Remember, forget thou not, how thou provokedst Jehovah thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou wentest forth out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against Jehovah.
- DARBY
- Remember, forget not, how thou provokedst Jehovah thy God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came to this place, ye have been rebellious against Jehovah.
- BLB
- Remember—do not forget—how you provoked YHWH your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you departed from the land of Egypt until you⁺ came to this place, you⁺ have been rebellious against YHWH.
- ÅB
- Kom i hu og glem ikke hvordan du vakte Herrens, din Guds vrede i ørkenen! Like fra den dag du gikk ut av Egypt, og til dere kom til dette sted, har dere vært gjenstridige mot Herren.
- OTB
- Husk og glem ikke hvordan du vakte Herren din Guds vrede i ørkenen. Fra den dagen du dro ut av Egypt til du kom hit, har du vært opprørsk mot Herren.
- B1930
- Kom i hu og glem ikke hvorledes du vakte Herrens, din Guds vrede i ørkenen! Like fra den dag du gikk ut av Egyptens land, og til I kom til dette sted, har I vært gjenstridige mot Herren.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 14:11
They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?
Read in contextExodus 16:2
And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron.
Read in contextNumbers 21:5
and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”
Read in contextNumbers 25:2
who also invited them to the sacrifices for their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to these gods.
Read in contextNumbers 11:4
Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?
Read in contextEphesians 2:11
Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—
Read in contextNehemiah 9:16–18
But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.
Read in contextPsalms 95:8–11
do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,
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