You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
That they might have no pretence to think that God brought them to Canaan for their righteousness, Moses here shows them what a miracle of mercy it was that they had not long ere this been destroyed in the wilderness: "Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God (Deu 9:7); so far from purchasing his favour, thou hast many a time laid...
Commenting on Deuteronomy 9:7-29
And I prayed therefore unto the Lord,.... What follows is a different prayer from that in Exo 32:31 and agrees better with that in Deu 9:11, 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...
Deu 9:7-24 He reminded the people how they had provoked the Lord in the desert, and had shown themselves rebellious against God, from the day of their departure from Egypt till their arrival in the steppes of Moab. את־אשׁר, for אשׁר, is the object to תּשׁכּח (Ewald, §333, a.): “how thou hast provoked.” המרה, generally with את־פּי (cf.
Commenting on Deuteronomy 9:7-24