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Deuteronomy 9:13
13And the Lord said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are a stiff-necked people indeed!
Deuteronomy 9:13 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Furthermore, the Lord said to me, 'I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stubborn people.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Furthermore the Lord spoke to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed they are a stiff-necked people.
- New Living Translation (NLT)“The Lord also said to me, ‘I have seen how stubborn and rebellious these people are.
Context of Deuteronomy 9:13
11At the end of the forty days and forty nights, the Lord gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant. 12Then the Lord told me, “Go down from here at once, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have become corrupt. They have turned away quickly from what I commanded them and have made an idol for themselves.” And the Lord said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are a stiff-necked people indeed! 14Let me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.” 15So I turned and went down from the mountain while it was ablaze with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.
Read all of Deuteronomy 9Deuteronomy 9:13 word by word
וַיֹּ֥אמֶר יְהוָ֖ה אֵלַ֣י לֵאמֹ֑ר רָאִ֙יתִי֙ אֶת־הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֔ה וְהִנֵּ֥ה עַם־קְשֵׁה־עֹ֖רֶף הֽוּא׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Deuteronomy 9:13
- Genesis 11:5But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.
- Genesis 18:21that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.”
- Exodus 32:9“I have seen these people,” the Lord said to Moses, “and they are a stiff-necked people.
- Psalms 50:7“Listen, my people, and I will speak; I will testify against you, Israel: I am God, your God.
- Jeremiah 7:11Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the Lord.
- Jeremiah 13:27your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution! I have seen your detestable acts on the hills and in the fields. Woe to you, Jerusalem! How long will you be unclean?”
- Hosea 6:10I have seen a horrible thing in Israel: There Ephraim is given to prostitution, Israel is defiled.
- Malachi 3:5“So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty.
- Deuteronomy 9:6Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.
- Deuteronomy 10:16Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and do not be stiff-necked any longer.
- Deuteronomy 31:27For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you have been rebellious against the Lord while I am still alive and with you, how much more will you rebel after I die!
- 2 Kings 17:14But they would not listen and were as stiff-necked as their ancestors, who did not trust in the Lord their God.
Commentaries on Deuteronomy 9:13
- 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
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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
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