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Deuteronomy 9:28 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’ "

Deuteronomy 9:28

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26 I prayed to the LORD, and said, “Lord GOD, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,

28 lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’

29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”

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Numbers 14:16

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"‘Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’"

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Exodus 16:3

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"and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”"

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Deuteronomy 1:27

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"You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because the LORD hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us."

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1 Kings 8:53

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"For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord GOD.”"

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Baruch 3:8

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"Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity where you have scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to penalty according to all the iniquities of our fathers who departed from the Lord our God."

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Deuteronomy 29:28

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"The LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”"

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Deuteronomy 9:1

"Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,"

Deuteronomy 9:2

"a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, “Who can stand before the sons of Anak?”"

Deuteronomy 9:3

"Know therefore today that the LORD your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them and he will bring them down before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as the LORD has spoken to you."

Deuteronomy 9:4

"Don’t say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out from before you, “For my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land;” because the LORD drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations."

Deuteronomy 9:5

"Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

Deuteronomy 9:6

"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."

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