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- Deuteronomy
- Chapter 9
- Verse 23
Deuteronomy 9:23
Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
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Gill's Exposition
You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you. Either from the time he first had and took knowledge of them and visited them, before his departure from Egypt to the land of…
That they might have no pretence to think that God brought them to Canaan for their righteousness, Moses here shows them what a miracle of mercy it was that they had not long ere this been destroyed…
Other instances of Israel's rebelliousness: Tab-erah, -Burning-place," because fire broke out on them there, Num 11:1-3, E; Massah, -Proof," for there they put God to the proof, Exo 17:7, J;…
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