From Deuteronomy 7-9:
1. Once God decided that the seven nations living on the land the Israelites were to inherit from God were evil, he did not spare anyone. He commanded them in no uncertain terms to wipe out all of the people and not have pity on them. This was obviously because none of the people would acknowledge Him as the one and only true God. But there was Rahab who did acknowledge Him, and he spared her.
2. It is interesting that there is irrefuteable evidence in Deuteronomy 7:8 that the reason that Israel was the nation that God favored was due to His promises to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, not due to their faithfulness or any other thing.
3. Deuteronomy 7:9 is another great verse for memory.
4. Deuteronomy 8:3 is where it first talks about not living on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
5. In Deuteronomy 9:4-6 is where it very clearly states that the reason that God is giving the land that the Israelites are about to take to them is because of the wickedness of the nations living in it at the time. It has nothing to do with the Israelites being very righteous or anything like that. In fact, it even states that the Israelites are a stiff-necked people.
6. I am so hungry! - It just dawned on me that Moses went up Mount Horeb and did not eat or drink forty days or nights, just the same as Jesus did before starting his ministry. That must be some sort of a miracle, because I have trouble believing that without divine help someone could go forty days without water. Perhaps they can, but I have never heard of it before (other than these instances in the bible).
7. Moses really sacrificed of himself to save the Israelite people after they sinned against God by making a golden calf. Moses states that he fasted forty days just as he had done on the mountain to persuade God that He should not destroy the Israelites.
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