Deuteronomy 33:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.

Deuteronomy 33:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 10:37
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Exodus 32:25-29
And when Moses saw that the people were naked;(for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:) …
Matthew 12:48
But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?
Luke 14:26
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Leviticus 21:11
Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-11)

In blessing the tribe of Levi, Moses expresses himself more at large, not so much because it was his own tribe (for he takes no notice of his relation to it) as because it was God’s tribe. The blessing of Levi has reference. I. To the high priest, here called God’s holy one (Deut. 33:8), because his office was holy, in token of which, Holiness to the Lord was written upon his forehead. 1. He seems…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

8-10. of Levi he said--The burden of this blessing is the appointment of the Levites to the dignified and sacred office of the priesthood (Le 10:11; De 22:8; 17:8-11), a reward for their zeal in supporting the cause of God, and their unsparing severity in chastising even their nearest and dearest relatives who had participated in the idolatry of the molten calf (Ex 32:25-28; compare Mal 2:4-6).