Chapter Book
Loading
Change Translation
Loading...
  • Recent Translations
  • All Translations

Deuteronomy 9:16

Share

Settings

16 And 1I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God. You had made yourselves a golden[a] calf. 2You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.
Read Chapter Compare
PREVIOUS Deuteronomy 9:15 NEXT Deuteronomy 9:17

Deuteronomy 9:16 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 9:16

And I looked
When he was come down from the mount, and was nigh the camp:

and, behold, ye had sinned against the Lord your God;
that plainly appeared by what they had done, and at which he was amazed; and therefore a behold is prefixed to it, it being such a gross sin, having so much impiety and ingratitude, and stupidity in it:

and made you a molten calf;
that he saw with his eyes, and them dancing about it; see ( Exodus 32:19 )

ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the Lord had commanded
you;
see ( Deuteronomy 9:7 ) .

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Deuteronomy 9:16 In-Context

14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'
15 So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.
16 And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God. You had made yourselves a golden calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.
17 So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes.
18 Then I lay prostrate before the LORD as before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke him to anger.

Cross References 2

  • 1. Exodus 32:19
  • 2. [Deuteronomy 31:29; Judges 2:17]

Footnotes 1

The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.