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Deuteronomy 9:21 KJV
Deuteronomy · chapter 9 · verse 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.Deuteronomy 9:21 · King James Version
Deuteronomy 9:21 in context
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.
21And 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.
22And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.
23Likewise 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- stampedkâthathto bruise or violently strikeH3807 →
- groundṭâchanto grind mealH2912 →
- burntsâraphto be on fireH8313 →
- smallyâṭabto be make well, literally or figurativelyH3190 →
- smalldâqaqto crush crumbleH1854 →
- tooklâqachto takeH3947 →
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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