Deuteronomy 9:1

Israel’s Rebellions Reviewed

1 “Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,

2 a people great and tall, the ^adescendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?’

3 Therefore understand today that the Lord your God is He who ^agoes over before you as a ^bconsuming fire. ^cHe will destroy them and bring them down before you; ^dso you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the Lord has said to you.

4 ^a“Do not think in your heart, after the Lord your God has cast them out before you, saying, ‘Because of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess this land’; but it is ^bbecause of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out from before you.

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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Deuteronomy 9:1

Hear, O Israel - This seems to be a new discourse, delivered at some distance of time from the former, probably on the next sabbath - day. This day - That is, shortly, within a little time, the word day being often put for time. Nations - That is, the land of those nations. Mightier than thyself - This he adds, that they might not trust to their own strength, but rely upon God's help for the destroying them, and, after the work was done, might ascribe the glory of it to God alone, and not to themselves.

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