Ulangan 9:7

The History of Israel’s Stubbornness

9:7 Remember – don’t ever forget ¹  – how you provoked the Lord your God in the desert; from the time you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place you were constantly rebelling against him. ² 

Ulangan 9:2

9:2 They include the Anakites, ³  a numerous ⁴  and tall people whom you know about and of whom it is said, “Who is able to resist the Anakites?”

1 Tawarikh 1:7

1:7 The sons ⁵  of Javan:

Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites. ⁶ 

[9:7]  ¹ tn By juxtaposing the positive זְכֹר (zekhor, “remember”) with the negative אַל־תִּשְׁכַּח (’al-tishÿkakh, “do not forget”), Moses makes a most emphatic plea.

[9:7]  ² tn Heb “the Lord” (likewise in the following verse with both “him” and “he”). See note on “he” in 9:3.

[9:2]  ³ sn Anakites. See note on this term in Deut 1:28.

[9:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “great and tall.” Many English versions understand this to refer to physical size or strength rather than numbers (cf. “strong,” NIV, NCV, NRSV, NLT).

[1:7]  ⁵ tn Or in this case, “descendants.”

[1:7]  ⁶ tc The Kethiv has “Rodanim,” which probably refers to the island of Rhodes. The Qere has “Dodanim,” which refers to one of the most ancient and revered locations in ancient Greece. The MT and most medieval Hebrew mss of the parallel list in Gen 10:4 read “Dodanim,” but a few have “Rodanim.”

[1:7]  tn Heb “Kittim and Rodanim.”