Deuteronomy · WEB-C
Deuteronomy
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Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky, See also: Deuteronomy 11:31Deuteronomy 1:28Deuteronomy 4:38a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, “Who can stand before the sons of Anak?” See also: Numbers 13:22Deuteronomy 7:24Daniel 8:4Know therefore today that the LORD your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them and he will bring them down before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as the LORD has spoken to you. See also: Deuteronomy 4:24Romans 8:31Hebrews 12:29Don’t say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out from before you, “For my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land;” because the LORD drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations. See also: Deuteronomy 8:17Deuteronomy 18:9-14Deuteronomy 9:5Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. See also: Titus 3:5Genesis 17:8Genesis 26:4Know therefore that the LORD your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people. See also: Deuteronomy 10:16Deuteronomy 9:13Deuteronomy 31:27Remember, and don’t 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 came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD. See also: Numbers 21:5Exodus 14:11Exodus 16:2Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was angry with you to destroy you. See also: Psalms 106:19-22Exodus 32:7-10Exodus 32:16When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water. See also: Exodus 34:28Exodus 24:18Exodus 24:15The LORD delivered to me the two stone tablets written with God’s finger. On them were all the words which the LORD spoke with you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly. See also: Exodus 31:18Deuteronomy 18:16Hebrews 8:10It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights that the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant. See also: Deuteronomy 9:9Hebrews 8:6-10Numbers 10:33The LORD said to me, “Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned away from the way which I commanded them. They have made a molten image for themselves!” See also: Exodus 32:7-8Judges 2:17Deuteronomy 31:29Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people. See also: Deuteronomy 9:6Deuteronomy 10:162 Kings 17:14Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.” See also: Deuteronomy 29:20Exodus 32:10-13Psalms 9:5So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. See also: Exodus 19:18Deuteronomy 5:23Deuteronomy 4:11I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God. You had made yourselves a molded calf. You had quickly turned away from the way which the LORD had commanded you. See also: Exodus 32:19Acts 7:40-41I took hold of the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, to provoke him to anger. See also: Exodus 34:28Deuteronomy 9:9Psalms 106:23For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the LORD was angry against you to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me that time also. See also: James 5:16-17Exodus 32:14Deuteronomy 10:10The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. See also: Exodus 32:21Hebrews 7:26-28Exodus 32:35I took your sin, 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. I threw its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain. See also: Exodus 32:20Isaiah 31:7Isaiah 2:18-21At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked the LORD to wrath. See also: Numbers 11:34Exodus 17:7Numbers 11:1-5When the LORD sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you,” you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you didn’t believe him or listen to his voice. See also: Psalms 106:24-25Hebrews 4:2Psalms 78:22You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you. See also: Deuteronomy 31:27Acts 7:51Deuteronomy 9:6-7So I fell down before the LORD the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because the LORD had said he would destroy you. See also: Deuteronomy 9:18Deuteronomy 9:16I prayed to the LORD, and said, “Lord GOD, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. See also: Titus 2:14Exodus 32:11-13Jeremiah 14:21Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin, See also: Jeremiah 14:21Micah 7:18-19Exodus 32:13lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’ See also: Numbers 14:16Exodus 32:12Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.” See also: Nehemiah 1:101 Kings 8:51Deuteronomy 9:26
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)13 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Deuteronomy 9:1
Ver. 1. This day, very soon, (M.) within the space of a month. C. --- Sky: an hyperbole to denote their surprising height. W.
↑ 1Deuteronomy 9:2
Ver. 2. Stand. Heb. "who can stand before the sons of Enak?" as if this were a sort of proverb.
C. --- The spies had formerly terrified the people with the report of the high walls and gigantic inhabitants of Chanaan. Num. xiii. 18.
↑ 2Deuteronomy 9:3
Ver. 3. Fire. See C. iv. 24. The conducting angel would fight for the Hebrews. H.
↑ 3Deuteronomy 9:7
Ver. 7. Strove. Heb. "irritated." C. --- Sept. "continually disbelieved the Lord."
Moses hence takes occasion to lay before the people their frequent and most heinous offences, on account of which they might justly have feared being destroyed, as much as the infamous nations whom they were about to supplant. They might thus be convinced that they had been chosen gratuitously. H.
--- For God hates nothing more than ingratitude and presumption. C.
↑ 7Deuteronomy 9:8
Ver. 8. Would, if He had not been appeased by earnest supplication, as v. 20.
↑ 8Deuteronomy 9:12
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 12. Have quickly. Heb. "have become corrupt; they have quickly abandoned the way which I commanded them." H. --- Sept. "the people hath sinned...they have quickly transgressed," &c.
C. --- Idol. Protestants have "image." The Hebrews had called the similitude of a calf their god.
Ex. xxxii. H.
↑ 12Deuteronomy 9:16
Ver. 16. Sinned, by idolatry, which comprises every sort of sin. Hence the Scripture only specifies that Jeroboam caused Israel to sin, when it means to assert that he engaged the people in the worship of idols. C.
↑ 16Deuteronomy 9:18
Ver. 18. Sins. Many believe that Moses spent the whole time in obtaining pardon. Hiscuni agrees herein with the other Rabbins, only he thinks Moses was all the time in the tabernacle.
Other 40 days, or a third rigid fast, were requisite to obtain the second tables of the law, as the text seems to insinuate, (v. 25. C. x. 10,) unless Moses repeat what he has here asserted, as many able chronologers suppose. Torneil, Usher, &c. C. T. --- The former opinion is maintained, however, by Salien, &c.
Ex. xxxiv. H.
↑ 18Deuteronomy 9:21
Ver. 21. Sin. The Scripture designates by this name not only the evil action, but also the propensity to it, the object, matter, occasion, punishment , or victim of sin. --- The calf. He broke the idol in pieces, and then ground it small. Ex. xxxii.
20. C.
↑ 21Deuteronomy 9:22
Ver. 22. Burning, &c. The places called in Heb. "Tabera, Masa, and Kibroth Hattaavah." H. ---
At the first, the murmurers were burnt; (Num. xi. 1) at the second or at Raphidim, (C.) the people demanded water, and were supplied from Horeb; (Ex.
xvii. 2. 7. M.) though some confound this with the former place. It seems rather to refer to the temptation, or murmur of the people, on account of quails. Num.
xi. 34. Ps. lxxvii. 18. C.
↑ 22Deuteronomy 9:23
Ver. 23. Slighted. Heb. "rebelled against," &c. as v. 24. Sept. "you were incredulous to." See Num. xiii. 3.
↑ 23Deuteronomy 9:24
Ver. 24. To know you. When Moses slew the Egyptian, and would have pacified two of his contending brethren, they refused to receive his mediation; so also, when he returned from Madian, to rescue them from slavery, they presently began to murmur against him, and continued to do so frequently for 40 years.
H. --- Sept. refers this to God, "from the day that he was known to you," and received you for his peculiar people. Ex. xi. 25.
↑ 24Deuteronomy 9:25
Ver. 25. Nights. See v. 18. C. --- After specifying various seditions of the people, Moses returns to what he had been saying respecting the tables of the law, and shews with what difficulty he obtained pardon for the people, and the second tables. H. --- Some people believe that Moses was thrice 40 days in the mountain. He mentions the prayer which he addressed to God before his first descent. Ex. xxxii. 11. M.
↑ 25License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses