Deuteronomy 9:6 - Forerunner Commentary

Deuteronomy 9:6

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.

5 ^aIt is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out from before you, and that He may¹ fulfill the ^bword which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

6 Therefore understand that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a ^astiff-necked people.

7 “Remember! Do not forget how you ^aprovoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. ^bFrom the day that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord.

8 Also ^ain Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry enough with you to have destroyed you.

9 ^aWhen I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and ^bforty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.

10 ^aThen the Lord delivered to me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words which the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire ^bin the day of the assembly.

Verse Comparison: Deuteronomy 9:6

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American Standard Version
Know therefore, that Jehovah thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.

Amplified® Bible
Know therefore that the Lord your God does not give you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a hard {and} stubborn people.

Contemporary English Version
(SEE 9:4)

Darby English Version
Know therefore that Jehovah thy God doth not give thee this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiff-necked people.

Good News Bible
You can be sure that the LORD is not giving you this fertile land because you deserve it. No, you are a stubborn people.

King James Version
Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.

New American Standard Bible
"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.

New International Version
Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.

New King James Version
Therefore understand that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"Know, then, it does not occur because of your righteousness that the LORD your God gives you this good land to possess, for you have behaved stubbornly.

Revised Standard Version
"Know therefore, that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness; for you are a stubborn people.

Young's Literal Translation
and thou hast known, that not for thy righteousness is Jehovah thy God giving to thee this good land to possess it, for a people stiff of neck thou `art'.

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