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Deuteronomy 9:19

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For I was afraid of the anger and wrath that the LORD had directed against you, enough to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me this time as well.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith Jehovah was wroth against you to destroy you. But Jehovah hearkened unto me that time also.

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.

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This verse in Deuteronomy 9

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first

on Deuteronomy 9:18-19

The forty days are kept a second time, now face down and on the people's account rather than to receive anything. Moses says what moved him, that he was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, and the verse ends with the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also. Readers divide over whether verse 18 and verse 25 record two separate fasts or one told twice, and both readings are old: Barnes takes verse 18 for the second forty days of Exodus 34:28 and treats verse 25 as that same period in fuller detail, while Rashi, cited by Gill, holds the two to be the one fast repeated to suit the order of the prayer.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

): I was afraid of the anger of the Lord, afraid perhaps not for them only, but for himself, Ps. cxix. They had by their sin broken covenant with God, and forfeited all the privileges of the covenant, which Moses signified to them by breaking the tables,

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For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure wherewith the Lord was wroth against you,....

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • כִּ֣יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • יָגֹ֗רְתִּיI was afraid

    yagoretiH3025 →

  • מִפְּנֵ֤יof <the face of>

    mipeneiH6440 →2123 times

  • הָאַף֙the anger

    haafH639 →276 times

  • וְהַ֣חֵמָ֔הand the rage

    vehachemahH2534 →125 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֨רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • קָצַ֧ףhe was angry

    katzafH7107 →34 times

  • יְהוָ֛הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • עֲלֵיכֶ֖םtowards you

    ʾaleikhemH5921 →5755 times

  • לְהַשְׁמִ֣ידto destroy

    lehashmidH8045 →90 times

  • אֶתְכֶ֑ם<obj.> you

    ʾetkhemH853 →10935 times

  • וַיִּשְׁמַ֤עand he listened

    vaiyishma'H8085 →1159 times

  • יְהוָה֙Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֵלַ֔יto me

    ʾelaiH413 →5510 times

  • גַּ֖םalso

    gamH1571 →769 times

  • בַּפַּ֥עַםat the time

    bapaamH6471 →118 times

  • הַהִֽוא׃<the> that

    hahiv'H1931 →1879 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

14 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Hebrews 12:21The sight was so terrifying that even Moses said, “I am trembling with fear.”10 worksExodus 32:10Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”7 worksDeuteronomy 10:10I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.6 worksExodus 32:14So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.6 worksJames 5:16–17Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.6 worksPsalms 99:6Moses and Aaron were among His priests; Samuel was among those who called on His name. They called to the LORD and He answered.4 works
The other 8 cross-references, with their words ▾
Exodus 33:17So the LORD said to Moses, “I will do this very thing you have asked, for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name.”4 worksLuke 12:4–5I tell you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more.3 worksNehemiah 1:2–7Hanani, one of my brothers, arrived with men from Judah. So I questioned them about the remnant of the Jews who had survived the exile, and also about Jerusalem.3 worksAmos 7:2–3And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”3 worksAmos 7:5–6Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”2 worksDeuteronomy 9:8At Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.2 worksPsalms 106:23So He said He would destroy them— had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.2 worksPsalms 38:1O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.1 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Exodus 32:14

    So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.

    it leads to

    • Jonah 3:10

      When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.

    • Psalms 106:45

      And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

    • Jeremiah 26:13

      So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, so that He might relent of the disaster He has pronounced against you.

    • 1 Chronicles 21:15

      Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the…

  • Through

    Psalms 99:6

    Moses and Aaron were among His priests; Samuel was among those who called on His name. They called to the LORD and He answered.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 15:1

      Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go.

    • Exodus 15:25

      And Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log. And when he cast it into the waters, they were sweetened. There the LORD made for them a statute and…

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 10:10

    I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 9:18–19

      Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you…

    • Deuteronomy 9:25

      So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.

Where this verse is studied

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About Deuteronomy

Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Deuteronomy: the study guide →Read Deuteronomy 9 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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