申命记 9:6

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

你要知道，耶和華你的　神把這美地賜給你作產業，並不是因著你的義；你本來是頑固的民族。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 当 知 道 ， 耶 和 华 ─ 你 　 神 将 这 美 地 赐 你 为 业 ， 并 不 是 因 你 的 义 ； 你 本 是 硬 着 颈 项 的 百 姓 。

Contextual Overview

¹ Listen, Israel. You will soon cross the Jordan River to go in and force out nations that are bigger and stronger than you. They have large cities with walls up to the sky. ² The people there are Anakites, who are strong and tall. You know about them, and you have heard it said: "No one can stop the Anakites." ³ But today remember that the Lord your God goes in before you to destroy them like a fire that burns things up. He will defeat them ahead of you, and you will force them out and destroy them quickly, just as the Lord has said. ⁴ After the Lord your God has forced those nations out ahead of you, don't say to yourself, "The Lord brought me here to take this land because I am so good." No! It is because these nations are evil that the Lord will force them out ahead of you. ⁵ You are going in to take the land, not because you are good and honest, but because these nations are evil. That is why the Lord your God will force them out ahead of you, to keep his promise to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. ⁶ The Lord your God is giving you this good land to take as your own. But know this: It is not because you are good; you are a stubborn people.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Understand: Deuteronomy 9:3, Deuteronomy 9:4, Ezekiel 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 stiffnecked: Deuteronomy 9:13, Deuteronomy 10:16, Deuteronomy 31:27, Exodus 32:9, Exodus 33:3, Exodus 34:9, 2 Chronicles 30:8, 2 Chronicles 36:13, Psalms 78:8, Isaiah 48:3, Isaiah 48:4, Ezekiel 2:4, Zechariah 7:11, Zechariah 7:12, Acts 7:51, Romans 5:20, Romans 5:21

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 2:29 - into the land Deuteronomy 9:24 - General Nehemiah 9:16 - dealt Mark 10:5 - For Ephesians 2:4 - his

Cross-References

Genesis 4:14
Today you have forced me to stop working the ground, and now I must hide from you. I must wander around on the earth, and anyone who meets me can kill me."

Genesis 5:1
This is the family history of Adam. When God created human beings, he made them in his own likeness.

Genesis 9:2
Every animal on earth, every bird in the sky, every animal that crawls on the ground, and every fish in the sea will respect and fear you. I have given them to you.

Genesis 9:3
"Everything that moves, everything that is alive, is yours for food. Earlier I gave you the green plants, but now I give you everything for food.

Genesis 9:5
I will demand blood for life. I will demand the life of any animal that kills a person, and I will demand the life of anyone who takes another person's life.

Genesis 9:6
"Whoever kills a human being will be killed by a human being, because God made humans in his own image.

Genesis 9:12
And God said, "This is the sign of the agreement between me and you and every living creature that is with you.

Genesis 9:14
When I bring clouds over the earth and a rainbow appears in them,

Genesis 9:26
Noah also said, "May the Lord , the God of Shem, be praised! May Canaan be Shem's slave.

Genesis 9:27
May God give more land to Japheth. May Japheth live in Shem's tents, and may Canaan be their slave."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Understand therefore that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness,.... This is again repeated to impress it upon their minds, that it was not for any goodness of theirs, but as a gift of divine goodness to them, that they were put into the possession of the good land, which greatly exceeded any merits of theirs, and was entirely owing to the kindness of God to them, and not to any righteousness of theirs; and this he frequently inculcates, that they might have a thorough understanding of it. And so the doctrines of justification by the righteousness of Christ, and not man's, and of salvation by the grace of God, and not the works of men, are points of knowledge and understanding; and to lead men into an acquaintance with them is the general design of the Gospel; and he cannot be reckoned an understanding man, but ignorant of God and his righteousness, of the law and the spirituality of it, of Christ and the way of salvation by him, of the Spirit and of spiritual things, of the Gospel and its doctrines, nor can he be wise unto salvation, who expects to get to heaven by his own works of righteousness; and it might be added, that he is ignorant of himself, of his state and condition, of his sinfulness and vileness, and of the nature of his best works; as the Israelites in a good measure seemed to be, whose conviction is laboured in the following part of this chapter:

for thou art a stiffnecked people; refractory and unruly, like an heifer unaccustomed to the yoke, that draws back from it, and wriggles its neck out of it; so untoward and perverse were this people, and disobedient to the commands of God; wherefore there was no show of reason that they were put into the possession of Canaan for their righteousness; and to make it appear that they were such a people as here described, several instances are given.