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Deuteronomy 9:15

in Deuteronomy 9

So I went back down the mountain while it was blazing with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

KJV

So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

This verse in Deuteronomy 9

Commentary

2 notes on this verse
So I turned and came down from the mount,.... As the Lord commanded: and the mount burned with fire; as it had for six weeks past, ever since the Lord's descent upon it; and so it continued, for the words may be rendered, "and the mount was burning" (b); and yet this did not deter the Israelites from idolatry: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands: one table in one hand, and the other in the other hand. (b) בער "de monte ardente", V. L. Heb. "burning", Ainsworth.

This site's exposition

So I went back down the mountain

on Deuteronomy 9:15-17

Exodus 32:19 mentions the dancing and Moses' anger, and Deuteronomy leaves out both and says only that he shattered the tablets "before your eyes". Jamieson, Fausset and Brown read the breaking as a formal act declaring the covenant broken.

The words behind it

13 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.

  • וָאֵ֗פֶןand I turned

    vaefenH6437 →135 times

  • וָֽאֵרֵד֙and I went down

    vaeredH3381 →381 times

  • מִן־from

    min-H4480 →1188 times

  • הָהָ֔רthe mountain

    haharH2022 →546 times

  • וְהָהָ֖רand the mountain

    vehaharH2022 →546 times

  • בֹּעֵ֣ר[was] burning

    boerH1197 →94 times

  • בָּאֵ֑שׁwith <the> fire

    baeshH784 →378 times

  • וּשְׁנֵי֙and [the] two

    usheneiH8147 →768 times

  • לֻחֹ֣ת[the] tablets of

    luchotH3871 →43 times

  • הַבְּרִ֔יתthe covenant

    haberitH1285 →284 times

  • עַ֖ל[were] on

    ʾalH5921 →5755 times

  • שְׁתֵּ֥י[the] two

    sheteiH8147 →768 times

  • יָדָֽי׃hands my

    yadaiH3027 →1618 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 12:18

    For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 4:11

      You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire to the heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.

    • Exodus 24:17

      And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the eyes of the Israelites.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 5:23

    And when you heard the voice out of the darkness while the mountain was blazing with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me,

    it leads to

    • Exodus 20:18–19

      When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sounding of the ram’s horn, and the mountain enveloped in smoke, they trembled and stood at a distance.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Exodus 19:18

    Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.

    it leads to

    • Judges 5:5

      The mountains quaked before the LORD, the One of Sinai, before the LORD, the God of Israel.

    • Revelation 15:8

      And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power; and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.

    • Exodus 3:2

      There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.

    • Psalms 144:5

      Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.

  • Through

    Exodus 9:23

    So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. So the LORD rained down hail upon the land of Egypt.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 18:13

      The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded— hailstones and coals of fire.

Where this verse is studied

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 Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.