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Deuteronomy 9:18

King James Version (KJV)

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Deuteronomy 9:18

Verse 18 of 29

Scripture focus

And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

Deuteronomy 9:18 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Deuteronomy 9:18

Theological / Devotional

I fell down. In intercession on behalf of the people. In Oriental lands even today prostration is the posture of complete submission.

As at the first. That is, as during the first 40 days and nights. This was the morning after he had broken up the golden calf (Exodus 32:30-32).

Your sins. Three times prior to this there had been major disobedience on the part of Israel — at Marah (Exodus 15:23), in the Wilderness of Sin (Exodus 16:2, 3), and at Massah (Exodus 17:2-7).

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