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Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying, You also shall not go in there:
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A Leader's Stumble
Commentators explain that when Moses says God was angry with him 'for your sakes,' he isn't simply shifting blame. Rather, he is rebuking the people by showing how their persistent and overwhelming wickedness created the very circumstances in which he, their leader, stumbled into sin. It's a powerful illustration of how a community's unfaithfulness can impact its leaders.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The sentence on Moses was not passed when the people rebelled during their first encampment at Kadesh, but some 37 years later, when they had re-as…
19th Century
Anglican
Also the Lord was angry with me for your sakes. —Here, again, Moses combines his own rejection, an event of the fortieth …
16th Century
Protestant
Also the Lord was angry with me. It is in no cowardly spirit that he transfers to them the guilt of unfaithfulness, which he had confessed…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Also the Lord was angry with me for your sakes Not at the same time, though, as some think, at the same place, near …
Moses reminds the Israelites of their march from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea, through that great and terrible wilderness. He shows how near they were to…