Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 9:7–end
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 in the wilderness: "Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God (Deu 9:7); so far from purchasing his favour, thou hast many a time laid thyself open to his displeasure." Their fathers' provocations are here charged upon them; for, if God had dealt with their fathers according to their deserts, this generation would never have been, much less would they have entered Canaan. We are apt to forget our provocations, especially when the smart of the rod is over, and have need to be…
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Also in Horeb--rather, "even in Horeb," where it might have been expected they would have acted otherwise.
John Gill on Deuteronomy 9:11
And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights,.... The time of Moses's stay in the mount, when it was just up, and not before: that
the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant, as in Deuteronomy 9:9. Aben Ezra observes, that this shows that the day the tables were given to Moses the calf was made.
John Calvin on Deuteronomy 9:7-21
Deuteronomy 9:7-21, 25-29
7. Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the Lord.
7. Memento, ne obliviscaris quod ad iram provocasti Jehovam Deum tuum in deserto, a die qua egressus es e terra AEgypti, donec ingressi estis ad hunc locum, rebelles fuistis Jehovae.
8. Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry with you, to have destroyed you.
8. Nam in Horeb provocastis Jehovam: et excanduit Jehova in vos ad perdendum vos.
9. When I was gone up into the mount, to receive the tables of sto…
