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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Deuteronomy 9 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/deuteronomy/9.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/deuteronomy/9-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Deuteronomy 9</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../deuteronomy/8.htm" title="Deuteronomy 8">◄</a> Deuteronomy 9 <a href="../deuteronomy/10.htm" title="Deuteronomy 10">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/deuteronomy/9.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Not Because of Israel’s Righteousness</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Hear, Israel: You are now about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities that have walls up to the sky. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The people are strong and tall—Anakites! You know about them and have heard it said: “Who can stand up against the Anakites?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But be assured today that the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God is the one who goes across ahead of you like a devouring fire. He will destroy them; he will subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them quickly, as the <span class="name">Lord</span> has promised you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>After the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God has driven them out before you, do not say to yourself, “The <span class="name">Lord</span> has brought me here to take possession of this land because of my righteousness.” No, it is on account of the wickedness of these nations that the <span class="name">Lord</span> is going to drive them out before you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>It is not because of your righteousness or your integrity that you are going in to take possession of their land; but on account of the wickedness of these nations, the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God will drive them out before you, to accomplish what he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.</p> <p class="sectionhead">The Golden Calf</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Remember this and never forget how you aroused the anger of the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God in the wilderness. From the day you left Egypt until you arrived here, you have been rebellious against the <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>At Horeb you aroused the <span class="name">Lord</span>’s wrath so that he was angry enough to destroy you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the <span class="name">Lord</span> had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> gave me two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God. On them were all the commandments the <span class="name">Lord</span> proclaimed to you on the mountain out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>At the end of the forty days and forty nights, the <span class="name">Lord</span> gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then the <span class="name">Lord</span> told me, “Go down from here at once, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have become corrupt. They have turned away quickly from what I commanded them and have made an idol for themselves.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the <span class="name">Lord</span> said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are a stiff-necked people indeed! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Let me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So I turned and went down from the mountain while it was ablaze with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>When I looked, I saw that you had sinned against the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God; you had made for yourselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the <span class="name">Lord</span> had commanded you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, breaking them to pieces before your eyes.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then once again I fell prostrate before the <span class="name">Lord</span> for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed, doing what was evil in the <span class="name">Lord</span>’s sight and so arousing his anger. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>I feared the anger and wrath of the <span class="name">Lord</span>, for he was angry enough with you to destroy you. But again the <span class="name">Lord</span> listened to me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And the <span class="name">Lord</span> was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I prayed for Aaron too. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Also I took that sinful thing of yours, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust and threw the dust into a stream that flowed down the mountain.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>You also made the <span class="name">Lord</span> angry at Taberah, at Massah and at Kibroth Hattaavah.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And when the <span class="name">Lord</span> sent you out from Kadesh Barnea, he said, “Go up and take possession of the land I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God. You did not trust him or obey him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>You have been rebellious against the <span class="name">Lord</span> ever since I have known you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>I lay prostrate before the <span class="name">Lord</span> those forty days and forty nights because the <span class="name">Lord</span> had said he would destroy you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>I prayed to the <span class="name">Lord</span> and said, “Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span>, do not destroy your people, your own inheritance that you redeemed by your great power and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people, their wickedness and their sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Otherwise, the country from which you brought us will say, ‘Because the <span class="name">Lord</span> was not able to take them into the land he had promised them, and because he hated them, he brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>But they are your people, your inheritance that you brought out by your great power and your outstretched arm.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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