Deuteronomy 9:8-29
Verse 10. Tables of stone] See Clarke on Ex 31:18, and See Clarke on Ex 32:15; "Ex 32:16". Verse 12. Thy people-have corrupted themselves] Debased themselves by making and worshipping an Egyptian idol. See Clarke on Ex 32:1, &c. Verse 21. I took your sin, the calf which ye had made] See this fully explained, Clarke "Ex 32:20". Verse 22. At Kibroth-hattaavah] See Clarke on Nu 11:34. Verse 27. Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob] As if he had said: "These are their descendants, and the covenant was made with those patriarchs in behalf of these." God bestows many blessings on comparatively worthless persons, either for the sake of their pious ancestors, or on account of the religious people with whom they are connected; therefore union with the Church of God is a blessing of no common magnitude. The reader will find the grand subject of this chapter explained at large in the notes on Exod. xxxi. and xxxii., to which he is particularly desired to refer.
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