Deuteronomy 9 - Tree of Life Version(TLV)

Who Brings Down Giants?

1“Hear, O Israel! You are about to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself—cities great and fortified up to the heavens.

2The people are great and tall, sons of the Anakim. You know them, and you yourselves have heard, “Who can stand before the sons of Anak?”

3But you will know today that Adonai

your God is the One who is crossing over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them, and He will bring them down before you, so that you may drive them out and make them perish quickly, as Adonai

has promised you.

4“After Adonai

your God has driven them out from before you, do not say in your heart, ‘It is because of my righteousness that Adonai

has brought me in to possess this land.’ It is because of the wickedness of these nations that Adonai

is driving them out from before you.

5It is not by your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to possess their land. Rather, because of the wickedness of these nations, Adonai

your God is driving them out from before you, and in order to keep the word Adonai

swore to your fathers—to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

6So you should understand that it is not because of your righteousness that Adonai

your God is giving you this good land to possess—for you are a stiff-necked people.

What Happened to the Tablets?

7“Remember, never forget, how you provoked Adonai

your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Adonai

.

8At Horeb you provoked Adonai

to wrath, and Adonai

was angry with you—enough to destroy you.

9When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that Adonai

cut with you, I stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights; I did not eat bread or drink water.

10Adonai

gave me the two tablets of stone written by the finger of God. Moreover, on them were all the words that Adonai

had spoken with you on the mountain from the midst of the fire, on the day of the assembly.

11“Now at the end of 40 days and 40 nights, Adonai

gave me the two tablets of stone—the tablets of the covenant.

12Adonai

said to me, ‘Get up! Go quickly down from here, for your people whom you brought out from Egypt have acted corruptly. They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them; they have made a molten image for themselves.’

13Furthermore Adonai

spoke to me saying, ‘I have seen this people, and it is indeed a stiff-necked people.

14Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they.’

15“So I turned and came down from the mountain while the mountain was burning with fire. Now the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.

16When I looked, you had indeed sinned against Adonai

your God—you had made yourselves a metal calf. So quickly you had turned aside from the way Adonai

had commanded you!

17So I took hold of the two tablets, threw them out of my two hands, and smashed them before your eyes.

18“Then I fell down before Adonai

like the first time, for 40 days and 40 nights. I did not eat bread or drink water—because of all your sin that you committed, doing evil in Adonai

’s sight, provoking Him to anger.

19For I was afraid of the fierce wrath and fury which Adonai

bore toward you—to destroy you. But Adonai

listened to me that time also.

20Adonai

was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, so I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

21I took your sin—the calf you had made—and burned it in the fire. I crushed it, grinding it up so well that it was as fine as dust, and I threw its dust into the wadi flowing down from the mountain.

22“Again at Taberah and Massah and Kibroth-hattaavah, you provoked Adonai

to wrath.

23When Adonai

sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Go up and possess the land I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the commandment of Adonai

your God and didn’t believe Him or listen to His voice.

24You have been rebellious against Adonai

from the day that I knew you.

25“So I threw myself down before Adonai

those 40 days and 40 nights, because Adonai

had said He would destroy you.

26I prayed to Adonai

and said, ‘O Lord, Adonai

, do not destroy Your people—Your inheritance that You have redeemed through Your greatness and brought out from Egypt with a mighty hand.

27Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Pay no attention to the stubbornness of this people or to their wickedness or their sin.

28Otherwise the land from which You brought us out may say, “Because Adonai

was not able to bring them into the land that He spoke of to them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.”

29Yet they are Your people—Your inheritance that You brought out by Your great power and Your outstretched arm.’