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Deuteronomy 9:7 KJV
Deuteronomy · chapter 9 · verse 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.Deuteronomy 9:7 · King James Version
Deuteronomy 9:7 in context
5Not 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.
6Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
7Remember, 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.
8Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
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:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- wildernessmidbâra pastureH4057 →
- Rememberzâkarproperly, to markH2142 →
- forgetshâkachto mislayH7911 →
- wrathqâtsaphto crack offH7107 →
- EgyptMitsrayimMitsrajimH4714 →
- 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