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Deuteronomy 9:18 KJV
Deuteronomy · chapter 9 · verse 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.Deuteronomy 9:18 · King James Version
Deuteronomy 9:18 in context
16And 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.
17And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
18And 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.
19For 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.
20And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- beforepânîymthe faceH6440 →
- nightslayilproperly, a twistH3915 →
- firstriʼshôwnfirst, in place, time or rankH7223 →
- fortyʼarbâʻîymfortyH705 →
- breadlechemfood , especially bread, or grainH3899 →
- drinkshâthâhto imbibeH8354 →
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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