Deuteronomy 9:6
Understand therefore, that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
Deuteronomy 9:6 in other translations
| BSB | Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people. |
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| WEB | Know therefore that the LORD your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people. |
| ASV | Know therefore, that Jehovah thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people. |
| YLT | and thou hast known, that not for thy righteousness is Jehovah thy God giving to thee this good land to possess it, for a people stiff of neck thou art. |
| DARBY | Know therefore that Jehovah thy God doth not give thee this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiff-necked people. |
| BBE | Be certain then that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land as a reward for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people. |
| Webster | Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiff-necked people. |
What does Deuteronomy 9:6 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 9:4-6
4-6. Speak not thou in thine heart, ... saying, For my righteousness the Lord hath brought me in to possess this land--Moses takes special care to guard his countrymen against the vanity of supposing that their own merits had procured them the distinguished privilege. The Canaanites were a hopelessly corrupt race, and deserved extermination; but history relates many remarkable instances in which God punished corrupt…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 9:1-6
Moses represents the strength of the enemies they were now to encounter. This was to drive them to God, and engage their hope in him. He assures them of victory, by the presence of God with them. He cautions them not to have the least thought of their own righteousness, as if that procured this favour at God's hand. In Christ we have both righteousness and strength; in Him we must glory, not in ourselves, nor in any…
Deuteronomy 9:6 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Deuteronomy 9:6
- Deuteronomy 10:16
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
- Deuteronomy 9:13
Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
- Exodus 32:9
And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
- Acts 7:51
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
- Deuteronomy 31:27
For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the Lord; and how much more after my death?
- Exodus 33:3
Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.
- Exodus 34:9
And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
- Zechariah 7:11-12
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts.
- Psalms 78:8
And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
- 2 Chronicles 30:8
Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the Lord, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the Lord your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
- Deuteronomy 9:3-4
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. 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 brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord doth drive them out from before thee.
- Isaiah 48:3-4
I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass. Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
3,4; Eze 20:44
giveth thee.Moses repeats this a third time, that, if it were possible, he might root out of the Israelites the opinion of their own deserts, before God rooted out the Canaanites from their country.
a stiff-necked.
13; 10:16; 31:27; Ex 32:9; 33:3; 34:9; 2Ch 30:8; 36:13; Ps 78:8
Isa 48:3,4; Eze 2:4; Zec 7:11,12; Ac 7:51; Ro 5:20,21
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Context
- Deuteronomy 9:5
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.
- Deuteronomy 9:6
Understand therefore, that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
- Deuteronomy 9:7
Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath 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.
Deuteronomy 9:6 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Por tanto, sabe que no por tu justicia Jehová tu Dios te da esta buena tierra para poseerla; que pueblo duro de cerviz eres tú. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et sache que ce n’est pas à cause de ta justice que l’ Éternel, ton Dieu, te donne ce bon pays pour le posséder; car tu es un peuple de cou roide. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | So wisse denn, daß nicht um deiner Gerechtigkeit willen Jehova, dein Gott, dir dieses gute Land gibt, es zu besitzen; denn ein hartnäckiges Volk bist du. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Scito ergo quod non propter justitias tuas Dominus Deus tuus dederit tibi terram hanc optimam in possessionem, cum durissimæ cervicis sis populus. |