25Thus 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.
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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.
And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-29)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 (Deut. 9:7); so far from purchasing his favour, thou hast many a time laid thyself open to his displeasure.” Their f…
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