Deuteronomy 9:26

26 I prayed to God for you, "My Master, God, don't destroy your people, your inheritance whom, in your immense generosity, you redeemed, using your enormous strength to get them out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 9:26 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 9:26

And I prayed therefore unto the Lord
What follows is a different prayer from that in ( Exodus 32:31 Exodus 32:32 ) and agrees better with that in ( Deuteronomy 9:11 Deuteronomy 9:10 Deuteronomy 9:13 ) , delivered before he came down from the mount, yet could not be the same, because delivered at another forty days and nights:

and said, O Lord God, destroy not thy people, and thine inheritance:
because they were his inheritance, a people whom he had chosen for his peculiar treasure; this is the first argument used, another follows:

which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness;
redeemed out of the house of bondage, the land of Egypt, by his great power, as next explained:

which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand:
inflicting plagues on the Egyptians, particularly destroying their firstborn, which made them the Israelites urge to depart.

Deuteronomy 9:26 In-Context

24 You've been rebels against God from the first day I knew you.

25 When I was on my face, prostrate before God those forty days and nights after God said he would destroy you,

26 I prayed to God for you, "My Master, God, don't destroy your people, your inheritance whom, in your immense generosity, you redeemed, using your enormous strength to get them out of Egypt.

27 "Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; don't make too much of the stubbornness of this people, their evil and their sin,

28 lest the Egyptians from whom you rescued them say, 'God couldn't do it; he got tired and wasn't able to take them to the land he promised them. He ended up hating them and dumped them in the wilderness to die.'