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Israel
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Deuteronomy 9:1 |
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"Hear, O Israel! You are crossing over the Jordan
today to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, great cities
fortified to heaven, |
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Deuteronomy 9:2 |
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a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim,
whom you know and of whom you have heard it said, 'Who can stand before the sons
of Anak?' |
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Deuteronomy 9:3 |
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Know therefore today that it is the LORD your
God who is crossing over before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them
and He will subdue them before you, so that you may drive them out and destroy
them quickly, just as the LORD has spoken to you. |
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Deuteronomy 9:4 |
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"Do not say in your heart when the LORD your
God has driven them out before you, 'Because of my righteousness the LORD has
brought me in to possess this land,' but it is because of the wickedness of these
nations that the LORD is dispossessing them before you. |
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Deuteronomy 9:5 |
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It is not for your righteousness or for the
uprightness of your heart that you are going to possess their land, but it is
because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God is driving them
out before you, in order to confirm the oath which the LORD swore to your fathers,
to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. |
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Deuteronomy 9:6 |
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"Know, then, it is not because of your righteousness
that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a
stubborn people. |
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Deuteronomy 9:7 |
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Remember, do not forget how you provoked the
LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness; from the day that you left the land
of Egypt until you arrived at this place, you have been rebellious against the
LORD. |
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Deuteronomy 9:8 |
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Even at Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath,
and the LORD was so angry with you that He would have destroyed you. |
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Deuteronomy 9:9 |
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When I went up to the mountain to receive the
tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the LORD had made with you,
then I remained on the mountain forty days and nights; I neither ate bread nor
drank water. |
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Deuteronomy 9:10 |
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The LORD gave me the two tablets of stone written
by the finger of God; and on them were all the words which the LORD had spoken
with you at the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. |
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Deuteronomy 9:11 |
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It came about at the end of forty days and nights
that the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. |
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Deuteronomy 9:12 |
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Then the LORD said to me, 'Arise, go down from
here quickly, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly.
They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have
made a molten image for themselves.' |
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Deuteronomy 9:13 |
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The LORD spoke further to me, saying, 'I have
seen this people, and indeed, it is a stubborn people. |
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Deuteronomy 9:14 |
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Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and blot
out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and
greater than they.' |
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Deuteronomy 9:15 |
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"So I turned and came down from the mountain
while the mountain was burning with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant
were in my two hands. |
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Deuteronomy 9:16 |
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And I saw that you had indeed sinned against
the LORD your God. You had made for yourselves a molten calf; you had turned aside
quickly from the way which the LORD had commanded you. |
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Deuteronomy 9:17 |
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I took hold of the two tablets and threw them
from my hands and smashed them before your eyes. |
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Deuteronomy 9:18 |
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I fell down before the LORD, as at the first,
forty days and nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your
sin which you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD to
provoke Him to anger. |
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Deuteronomy 9:19 |
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For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure
with which the LORD was wrathful against you in order to destroy you, but the
LORD listened to me that time also. |
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Deuteronomy 9:20 |
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The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy
him; so I also prayed for Aaron at the same time. |
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Deuteronomy 9:21 |
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I took your sinful thing, the calf which you
had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small until
it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that came down from
the mountain. |
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Deuteronomy 9:22 |
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"Again at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah
you provoked the LORD to wrath. |
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Deuteronomy 9:23 |
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When the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying,
'Go up and possess the land which I have given you,' then you rebelled against
the command of the LORD your God; you neither believed Him nor listened to His
voice. |
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Deuteronomy 9:24 |
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You have been rebellious against the LORD from
the day I knew you. |
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Deuteronomy 9:25 |
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"So I fell down before the LORD the forty days
and nights, which I did because the LORD had said He would destroy you. |
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Deuteronomy 9:26 |
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I prayed to the LORD and said, 'O Lord GOD,
do not destroy Your people, even Your inheritance, whom You have redeemed through
Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. |
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Deuteronomy 9:27 |
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Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob; do not look at the stubbornness of this people or at their wickedness or
their sin. |
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Deuteronomy 9:28 |
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Otherwise the land from which You brought us
may say, "Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which He had
promised them and because He hated them He has brought them out to slay them in
the wilderness." |
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Deuteronomy 9:29 |
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Yet they are Your people, even Your inheritance,
whom You have brought out by Your great power and Your outstretched arm.' |
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