Deuteronomy 9:15

15 "So I went back down the mountain, while it was blazing with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

Deuteronomy 9:15 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 9:15

So I turned and came down from the mount
As the Lord commanded:

and the mount burned with fire;
as it had for six weeks past, ever since the Lord's descent upon it; and so it continued, for the words may be rendered, "and the mount was burning" ^F2; and yet this did not deter the Israelites from idolatry:

and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands:
one table in one hand, and the other in the other hand.

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 (reb) "de monte ardente", V. L. Heb. "burning", Ainsworth.

Deuteronomy 9:15 In-Context

13 The Lord also said to me, 'I have seen this people, and indeed, they are a stiff-necked people.

14 Leave Me alone, and I will destroy them and blot out their name under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.'

15 "So I went back down the mountain, while it was blazing with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

16 I saw how you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made a calf image for yourselves. You had quickly turned from the way the Lord had commanded for you.

17 So I took hold of the tablets and threw them from my hands, shattering them before your eyes.