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St Jerome in Prayer (c. 1505)
Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450 - 1516)
Early Netherlandish Renaissance Style of Fantastic Art
Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, Belgium
Image Source: Web Gallery of Art
SPECIAL NOTE:
[ I will again be working through the Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation. I will be adding links, resources, images, and the like, upgrading the former work-through which began with the 2013-10-12 posting which can be found, along with the full Genesis to Revelation postings, in the Archive Page. Postings will be at midnight Eastern Time, as I am able. However, no chapters will be skipped, even though a posting may be late. And all postings will be housed in the Archive Page. ]
Explanation: Deuteronomy 9, verses 18 and 25, indicate that Moses prayed three times for lengthy periods lying prostrate before the LORD in order to deliver Israel. Before Moses describes these events he tells Israel that they are about to go across the Jordan and face the great and tall Anakims who intimidate everyone. However, Moses assured them, the LORD would go before them like a consuming fire and bring them down before Israel (1-3).
When this happens Moses warns them not to feel that it was because of their righteousness that the LORD caused them to inherit the land. Rather, it was because of the wickedness of the inhabitants that he drove them out. He reminds Israel of their rebellious ways from the time they left Egypt (4-7).
He reminds them that in Horeb the LORD was so angry with them that he would have killed them except for Moses' intercession. This was the incident where Moses spent forty days and nights before the LORD receiving the law on the two tables of stone. And when the people turned to idolatry the LORD sent Moses down from the mountain to confront Israel (8-12).
The LORD said he would destroy Israel and make Moses into a greater nation than the children of Israel. When Moses saw what Israel was doing he broke the tablets and fell down prostrate before the LORD for forty days and forty nights as he had done previously when he received the tablets. He prayed that Israel would be spared and that Aaron also would not be destroyed. And he turned their golden calf into dust and cast it into the brook that descended from the mount, making them drink it, as recorded in Exodus 32:20 (13-21).
They were also rebellious at Taberah, Massah, Kibrothhattaavah, and Kadeshbarnea (22-24).
And for a third time Moses fell prostrate before the LORD pleading with him not to destroy Israel whom he had redeemed and to remember his promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob lest the Egyptians say that the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised and that he hated them (25-29).
[ Sermons: Albert Mohler. Various. ]
[ Illustration: A key feature in Deuteronomy 9 is prayer -- particularly prostrate prayer, as represented in the painting above. ]
RESOURCES
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[ THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES: Deuteronomy 9: [1] Joshua 5:13-14; Genesis 11:4; Ephesians 6:12.
[2] Numbers 13:33.
[7] Numbers 20:10.
[10] Exodus 32:16.
[12] Deuteronomy 9:13-14; Exodus 32:7.
[15] Exodus 32:15.
[16] Deuteronomy 9:16; Exodus 32:8.
[17] Exodus 33:7.
[18] Exodus 32:11-14; Exodus 24:18-18; Exodus 35:1.
[19] Hebrews 12:21.
[20] Leviticus 10:1-2.
[23] Deuteronomy 1:32; Deuteronomy 1:43.
[24] Numbers 23:21; Deuteronomy 31:16.
[26-27] Exodus 32:11-13; Exodus 34:9.
[29] Exodus 32:11; Exodus 32:7. -- From Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers ]
[ CHRONOLOGY: GENERAL. Patriarchs (Traditional). Judges # 1. Judges # 2. Kings # 1. Kings # 2. Prophets # 1. Prophets # 2. NT # 1. NT # 2. NT # 3. ]
[ MAPS: Maps # 1. Maps # 2. Maps # 3. Maps # 4. Maps # 5. ]
[ COMMENTARIES, ETC: GENERAL: Bible Study Tools; Bible Hub: Study Light; Blue Letter Bible // PSALMS: Monergism: Precept Austin: The Treasury of David; John Gill; John Calvin - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
[ MUSIC: GENERAL: The Cyber Hymnal // PSALMS: Genevan Psalter (Instrumental). VARIOUS ARTISTS: Micha'el Ben David. Sons of Korah. Fernando Ortega. Janet Isaac Morrison. Music of the Bible Revealed - Suzanne Haik-Vantoura. Dr. David Erb. Gregorian Chants. ]
HARMONY OF THE LAW
HEBREW AND GREEK INTERLINEAR BIBLES
Pentateuch Detailed Outline:
Genesis Detailed Outline:
Exodus Detailed Outline:
Leviticus Detailed Outline
Old Testament Offerings Chart
Numbers Detailed Outline
Deuteronomy Detailed Outline
Deuteronomy 9
{Pentateuch Outline: 14. Generations of Aaron & Moses (Nu 3:1 - Dt 34:12) 1445 - 1406 B.C. Sinai}
DEUTERONOMY (COVENANT INSTRUCTION CONTINUES: COVENANT RENEWED WITH 5TH GENERATION)
Moses Renews the Covenant: (Moses' Last Days) (Dt 1:1 - Dt 34:12) 1406 B.C. Transjordan
(Note 1: "Transjordan" = the East Side of Jordan)
(Note 2: Deuteronomy bears a striking resemblance to treaties found in Hittite, Syrian, and Mesopotamian cultures. These date
from the 17th to the 13th centuries B.C. and are generally unilateral treaties given by a great king to a vassal state.
With some variations, they have a basic 6 part structure: Preamble, Prologue, Stipulations, Preservation and
Proclamation of the Covenant, Witnesses, and Sanctions. Deuteronomy has additional material, and the order varies.
Treaty headings are in bold, below.)
(Note 3: The first 4 books of the Pentateuch could be considered its Historical Prologue. Material from those books is referred
to by quotation or allusion frequently in Deuteronomy. These 4 are a sweeping, extended Prologue; and the shorter Prologue
in Deuteronomy concentrates on Israel's more immediate history, especially their victories; and it draws out the
implications of these, especially assurance. The Preamble, if any, in these 1st 4 books is in Ge 1:1, since it clearly
implies that God, as creator of everything, has the right to establish and maintain the relationships of blessing and
judgment found throughout the Pentateuch, and indeed in the whole of Scripture. The reason, purpose, and meaning of the
Pentateuch are, therefore, implicit in the words "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.")
1. Moses' Farewell Address: (Dt 1:1 - Dt 33:29) 1406 B.C. Transjordan
a. Address: Part 1 - History - Covenant Preamble & Prologue (Dt 1:1 - Dt 4:49) 1406 B.C. Transjordan
(Note: 1:1-5 may be a later explanatory addition - cf., v. 5)
b. Address: Part 2 - Law - Covenant Provisions (Dt 4:44 - Dt 30:20) 1406 B.C. Transjordan
1. Stipulations (Laws) (Dt 4:44 - Dt 27:8 ) - 1406 B.C. Transjordan
(Note: Moses begins this section by exhorting Israel to "hear," "learn," and "obey." These and similar exhortations
are repeated throughout Deuteronomy, but are especially prominent in chapters 5-27. Examples include Dt 1:18;
4:1-2,5-6,9-10,14-15; 5:1,28-33; 6:1-9,16-18; 7:11; 8:1,11; 10:12-13; 11:8,22-23,32; 12:1,28,32; 13:4,18;
18:15-20; 19:9; 26:16; 27:1,10; 28:1,14-15; 29:1,12,29; 30:1-3,6,15-16,19-20; 31:12-13; 33:4,10. The people
respond positively, saying "we will" hear and do - 5:27; it "shall be" our righteousness to do all - 6:25;
and they "avouched" or "vowed" to keep YHWH's ways - 26:17. In response, YHWH ratified the covenant by
accepting them as his people - 26:18-19.)
a. The Ten Commandments (covenant of their God, at Horeb - 5:2) (Dt 4:44 - Dt 13:18 ) - 1406 B.C. Transjordan
(Note: This section and the next, "The Civil Laws," emphasize the mutual "ownership" between YHWH and Israel. Here
YHWH is called Israel's God - "Your God," - a phrase used repeatedly throughout the section to indicate that
YHWH "belongs" to them in a special sense. In the next section the emphasis shifts, and Israel is repeatedly
called not just the "people" of YHWH, but the "children of YHWH," emphasizing that Israel belongs to YHWH in
a special sense. Both of these designations are used throughout the respective sections to motivate Israel
to obedience.)
1 Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!
3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.
4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath bought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked [stiff necked] people.
7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst [thou provokedst to wrath] the LORD thy God in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.
8 Also in Horeb ye provoked [ye provoked to wrath] the LORD, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast bought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked [stiff necked] people:
14 Let me alone [hold back yourself from me], that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.
17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
19 For I was afraid of [of the face of] the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.
20 And the LORD was very angry [was angry exceedingly] with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked [ye provoked to wrath] the LORD.
23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast bought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath bought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
29 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
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