Deuteronomy 9:19

Deuteronomy 9:19 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)I feared the anger and wrath of the Lord, for he was angry enough with you to destroy you. But again the Lord listened to me.
• English Standard Version (ESV)For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure that the Lord bore against you, so that he was ready to destroy you. But the Lord listened to me that time also.
• New King James Version (NKJV)For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the Lord was angry with you, to destroy you. But the Lord listened to me at that time also.

Context of Deuteronomy 9:19

17So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands, shattering them before your eyes. 18I fell down like the first time in the presence of the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food or drink water because of all the sin you committed, doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight and angering him. I was afraid of the fierce anger the Lord had directed against you, because he was about to destroy you. But again the Lord listened to me on that occasion. 20The Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. But I prayed for Aaron at that time also. 21I took the sinful calf you had made and burned it. I crushed it, thoroughly grinding it to powder as fine as dust, and threw its dust into the stream that came down from the mountain.

Deuteronomy 9:19 word by word

כִּ֣י יָגֹ֗רְתִּי מִפְּנֵ֤י הָאַף֙ וְהַ֣חֵמָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר קָצַ֧ף יְהוָ֛ה עֲלֵיכֶ֖ם לְהַשְׁמִ֣יד אֶתְכֶ֑ם וַיִּשְׁמַ֤ע יְהוָה֙ אֵלַ֔י גַּ֖ם בַּפַּ֥עַם הַהִֽוא׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• For I was afraidיָגֹרyâgôr · to fearH3025
• ofפָּנֶהpânîym · face ofH6440
• the angerאַף'aph · face: angerH639
• and hot displeasureחֵמָהchêmâh chêmâ' · rageH2534
• wherewith the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• was wrothקָצַףqâtsaph · be angryH7107
• against you to destroyשָׁמַדshâmad · to destroyH8045
• hearkenedשָׁמַעshâma‛ · to hear: hearH8085
• unto me at that timeפַּ֫עַםpa‛am pa‛ămâh · beatH6471

Cross-references for Deuteronomy 9:19

• Deuteronomy 9:8You provoked the Lord at Horeb, and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.
• Exodus 32:10Now leave me alone, so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”
• Nehemiah 1:2Hanani, one of my brothers, arrived with men from Judah, and I questioned them about Jerusalem and the Jewish remnant that had survived the exile.
• Luke 12:4“I say to you, my friends, don’t fear those who kill the body, and after that can do nothing more.
• Deuteronomy 10:10“I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights like the first time. The Lord also listened to me on this occasion; he agreed not to annihilate you.
• Exodus 32:14So the Lord relented concerning the disaster he had said he would bring on his people.
• Exodus 33:17The Lord answered Moses, “I will do this very thing you have asked, for you have found favor with me, and I know you by name.”
• Psalms 99:6Moses and Aaron were among his priests; Samuel also was among those calling on his name. They called to the Lord and he answered them.
• Psalms 106:23So he said he would have destroyed them — if Moses his chosen one had not stood before him in the breach to turn his wrath away from destroying them.
• Amos 7:2When the locusts finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said, “Lord God, please forgive! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?”
• James 5:16Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is very powerful in its effect.

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 9:19

• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-29Verses 7-29 That the Israelites might have no pretence to think that God brought them to Canaan for their righteousness, Moses shows what a miracle of mercy it was, that they had not been destroyed in the wilderness. It is good for us often to remember against ourselves, with sorrow and shame, our former sins; that we may see how much we are indebted to free grace, and may humbly own that we never merited any thing but wrath and the curse at God's hand…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 12-2912-29. Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people ... have corrupted themselves--With a view to humble them effectually, Moses proceeds to particularize some of the most atrocious instances of their infidelity. He begins with the impiety of the golden calf--an impiety which, while their miraculous emancipation from Egypt, the most stupendous displays of the Divine Majesty that were exhibited on the adjoining mount, and the recent ratification…Read the comment

Topics related to Deuteronomy 9:19

• Anger
• Humility
• Intercession
• Israel
• Moses
• Reproof
• Zeal, Religious

In the dictionaries

• Carefully
• Prayer
• Rebellious
• Calf, Golden
• Fear
• Heat

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings