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Deuteronomy 9:27

in Deuteronomy 9

Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin,

KJV

Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:

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This verse in Deuteronomy 9

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob - As if he had said: “These are their descendants, and the covenant was made with those patriarchs in behalf of these.” God bestows many blessings on comparatively worthless persons, either for the sake of their pious ancestors, or on account of the religious people with whom they are connected; therefore union with the Church of God is a blessing of no common magnitude. The reader will find the grand subject of this chapter explained at large in the notes on Exodus 31 and 32, to which he is particularly desired to refer.

This site's exposition

Thus I fell down before the Lord forty days

on Deuteronomy 9:25-27

The prayer is given in Moses' own words and it asks for nothing on Israel's account. He pleads what God has already spent, thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, and then the three names of the oath, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin is the denial of verses 4 to 6 turned into a request. Numbers 14:13-19 has him praying on the same two grounds after Kadesh, God's name and God's promise.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Their character was bad indeed when he that appeared an advocate for them could not give them a good word, and had nothing else to say in their behalf but that God had done great things for them, which really did but aggravate their crime (

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A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

And consequently he excludes all merit. And surely they who did not deserve this earthly Canaan, could not merit the kingdom of glory. To perform the word - To shew my faithfulness in accomplishing that promise which I graciously made and confirmed with my oath.
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The words behind it

15 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.

  • זְכֹר֙remember

    zekhorH2142 →230 times

  • לַעֲבָדֶ֔יךָ<to> servants your

    laavadeikhaH5650 →799 times

  • לְאַבְרָהָ֥ם<to> Abraham

    leavrahamH85 →175 times

  • לְיִצְחָ֖ק<to> Isaac

    leyitzchakH3327 →108 times

  • וּֽלְיַעֲקֹ֑בand <to> Jacob

    uleyaakoH3290 →350 times

  • אַל־may not

    ʾal-H408 →724 times

  • תֵּ֗פֶןyou turn

    tefenH6437 →135 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • קְשִׁי֙[the] stubbornness of

    keshiH7190 →

  • הָעָ֣םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • הַזֶּ֔ה<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

  • וְאֶל־and to

    veel-H413 →5510 times

  • רִשְׁע֖וֹwickedness its

    rishoH7562 →

  • וְאֶל־and to

    veel-H413 →5510 times

  • חַטָּאתֽוֹ׃sin its

    chatatoH2403 →295 times

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

Related verses

18 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.

Jeremiah 14:21For the sake of Your name do not despise us; do not disgrace Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.4 worksMicah 7:18–19Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?4 worksExodus 32:13Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’”3 worksPsalms 105:42For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.3 worksIsaiah 43:24–25You have not bought Me sweet cane with your silver, nor satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.2 worksPsalms 78:8Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.2 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Exodus 32:31–32So Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made gods of gold for themselves.2 works1 Samuel 25:25My lord should pay no attention to this scoundrel Nabal, for he lives up to his name: His name means Fool, and folly accompanies him. I, your servant, did not see my lord’s young men whom you sent.2 worksExodus 13:5And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you shall keep this service in this month.2 worksExodus 3:6Then He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.2 worksExodus 6:3–8I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by My name the LORD I did not make Myself known to them.2 worksJeremiah 50:20In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, a search will be made for Israel’s guilt, but there will be none, and for Judah’s sins, but they will not be found; for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.2 worksProverbs 21:12The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked and brings the wicked to ruin.2 worksExodus 3:16Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.2 worksEzekiel 2:3“Son of man,” He said to me, “I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me. To this very day they and their fathers have rebelled against Me.2 worksJeremiah 16:12And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.2 worksNehemiah 9:16But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.2 worksPsalms 74:20Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.2 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

    Psalms 78:8

    Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 78:37

      Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.

    • Exodus 32:9

      The LORD also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

    • 2 Kings 17:14

      But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.

    • Ezekiel 20:18

      In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

    • Deuteronomy 31:27

      For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!

  • Through

    Jeremiah 14:21

    For the sake of Your name do not despise us; do not disgrace Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 14:7

      Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for the sake of Your name. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against You.

    • Psalms 106:45

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

    • Jeremiah 3:17

      At that time Jerusalem will be called The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations will be gathered in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. They will no longer follow the…

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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 Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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