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Deuteronomy 9:11 KJV
Deuteronomy · chapter 9 · verse 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.Deuteronomy 9:11 · King James Version
Deuteronomy 9:11 in context
9When 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:
10And 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.
11And 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.
12And 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.
13Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- nightslayilproperly, a twistH3915 →
- tableslûwachprobably meaning to glistenH3871 →
- fortyʼarbâʻîymfortyH705 →
- stoneʼebena stoneH68 →
- daysyôwma day , whether literal , or figurativeH3117 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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That they might have no pretence to think that God brought them to Canaan for their righteousness, Moses here shows them what a miracle of mercy it was that they had not long ere this been destroyed in the wilderness: "Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God (Deu 9:7);
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-29