Deuteronomy 9:17

17 So I took hold of the two tablets and flung them from my two hands, smashing them before your eyes.

Deuteronomy 9:17 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 9:17

And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands,
&c.] In wrath and indignation at the sin they were guilty of:

and brake them before your eyes;
as an emblem of their breach of them by transgressing them.

Deuteronomy 9:17 In-Context

15 So I turned and went down from the mountain, while the mountain was ablaze; the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.

16 Then I saw that you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God, by casting for yourselves an image of a calf; you had been quick to turn from the way that the Lord had commanded you.

17 So I took hold of the two tablets and flung them from my two hands, smashing 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 you had committed, provoking the Lord by doing what was evil in his sight.

19 For I was afraid that the anger that the Lord bore against you was so fierce that he would destroy you. But the Lord listened to me that time also.