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Deuteronomy 9:23

in Deuteronomy 9

And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, “Go up and possess the land that I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And when Jehovah sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.

KJV

Likewise when the Lord sent you from Kadesh–barnea, 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.

This verse in Deuteronomy 9

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah

on Deuteronomy 9:22-24

Four places are named out of the order they happened: Taberah at Numbers 11:3, Massah at Exodus 17:7, Kibroth-hattaavah at Numbers 11:34 and Kadesh-barnea at Numbers 13 and 14. Barnes reads the order as rising from lighter proofs of guilt to heavier, ending on "you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God". Verse 24 closes with a span, "since the day I came to know you".

This site's exposition

You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him

God's command at Kadesh-barnea spoke of the land as already given, and the verse names two failures in answer, with unbelief placed before disobedience. Hebrews 3:18 and 19 read the same event and trace the failure to enter to that unbelief. Matthew Henry counts the recalling of such sins as the way a people learn how much they owe to free grace.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Likewise when the Lord sent you from Kadeshbarnea,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

It is good for us often to remember against ourselves, with sorrow and shame, our former sins, and to review the records conscience keeps of them, that we may see how much we are indebted to free grace, and may humbly own that we never merited at God's hand any thing but wrath and the curse.

The words behind it

24 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.

  • וּבִשְׁלֹ֨חַand when sent

    uvishloachH7971 →845 times

  • יְהוָ֜הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֶתְכֶ֗ם<obj.> you

    ʾetkhemH853 →10935 times

  • מִקָּדֵ֤שׁfrom Kadesh

    mikadeshH6947 →20 times

  • בַּרְנֵ֙עַ֙Barnea

    barnea'H6947 →20 times

  • לֵאמֹ֔ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • עֲלוּ֙go up

    ʾaluH5927 →890 times

  • וּרְשׁ֣וּand take possession of

    ureshuH3423 →231 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הָאָ֔רֶץthe land

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • נָתַ֖תִּיI have given

    natatiH5414 →2011 times

  • לָכֶ֑םto <the> you

    lakhem

  • וַתַּמְר֗וּand you rebelled against

    vatamruH4784 →45 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • פִּ֤י[the] mouth of

    piH6310 →498 times

  • יְהוָה֙Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֱלֹ֣הֵיכֶ֔םGod your

    ʾeloheikhemH430 →2601 times

  • וְלֹ֤אand not

    velo'H3808 →5168 times

  • הֶֽאֱמַנְתֶּם֙you believed

    heemantemH539 →106 times

  • ל֔וֹ<to> <the> him

    lo

  • וְלֹ֥אand not

    velo'H3808 →5168 times

  • שְׁמַעְתֶּ֖םyou listened

    shema'temH8085 →1159 times

  • בְּקֹלֽוֹ׃to voice his

    bekoloH6963 →506 times

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

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

    Hebrews 4:2

    For we also received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, since they did not share the faith of those who comprehended it.

    it leads to

    • Hebrews 11:6

      And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Thessalonians 2:13

      And we continually thank God because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as the true word of God—the…

    • Hebrews 3:18–19

      And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Romans 10:16–17

      But not all of them welcomed the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”

  • Through

    Isaiah 63:10

    But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.

    it leads to

    • Acts 7:51

      You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.

    • Ephesians 4:30

      And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

    • Psalms 78:56

      But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.

    • Psalms 78:40

      How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

Where this verse is studied

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About Deuteronomy

Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.

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