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Chapter 9
- 9:1
- Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass
over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier
than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
- 9:2
- A people great and tall, the
children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast
heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!
- 9:3
- Understand therefore this day,
that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a
consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down
before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them
quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.
- 9:4
- Speak not thou in thine heart,
after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee,
saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess
this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive
them out from before thee.
- 9:5
- Not for thy righteousness, or for
the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land:
but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive
them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the
LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- 9:6
- Understand therefore, that the
LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy
righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
- 9:7
- 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.
- 9:8
- Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD
to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
- 9:9
- When I was gone up into the mount
to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which
the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty
nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
- 9:10
- And the LORD delivered unto me two
tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was
written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in
the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
- 9:11
- And it came to pass at the end of
forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of
stone, even the tables of the covenant.
- 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.
- 9:13
- Furthermore the LORD spake unto
me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked
people:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 9:17
- And I took the two tables, and
cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
- 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.
- 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.
- 9:20
- And the LORD was very angry with
Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same
time.
- 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.
- 9:22
- And at Taberah, and at Massah, and
at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.
- 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.
- 9:24
- Ye have been rebellious against
the LORD from the day that I knew you.
- 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.
- 9:26
- I prayed therefore unto the LORD,
and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance,
which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast
brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
- 9:27
- Remember thy servants, Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor
to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
- 9:28
- Lest the land whence thou
broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them
into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he
hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
- 9:29
- Yet they are thy people and thine
inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy
stretched out arm.
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