What Does Deuteronomy 9:24 Mean in the King James?
Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse lets knowing and rebellion occupy the same relationship, from its first day.
THE MEANING
You can be known in relationship with the LORD and still resist him; the verse places both realities side by side. That resistance is not described as a passing moment, but as something reaching back to the beginning of being known.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Being known by the LORD does not mean you have never resisted him.
THE ROOT
מַמְרִים
mamrîm
GROWS FROM
מרה
To rebel, resist, or contend.
“rebellious” in this verse is mamrîm. The Hebrew form pictures an ongoing posture of resistance, not just one misstep. Its root makes the phrase “from the day” feel like duration: rebellion has persisted within a relationship that is already known.
ALSO GROWS
mārāh: To rebel or resist.
מָרָה
The verbal form shows rebellion as an active stance, giving weight to the verse’s claim that the resistance continues.
merî: Rebellion or rebelliousness.
מְרִי
This noun names resistance as a condition, echoing the verse’s description of a pattern rather than an isolated act.
דַּעְתִּי
daʿtî
GROWS FROM
ידע
To know or perceive; in relational use, to know by encounter.
“knew” in this verse is daʿtî. The word means more than possessing information: it describes knowing someone. The verse places that personal knowing beside persistent rebellion, showing that familiarity and resistance can coexist.
ALSO GROWS
yādaʿ: To know or perceive.
יָדַע
This verb carries the encounter-based sense behind “I knew you.”
dēʿāh: Knowledge or understanding.
דֵּעָה
This related form shows how the root of knowing also names what is known, while the verse emphasizes knowing a person.
THE PATTERN
Resistance can persist through a relationship from its earliest knowing into the present.
Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.THE THREAD
Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.This verse repeats the same Hebrew form for “rebellious,” מַמְרִים (mamrîm), and gives the resistance a span: from departure until arrival. Beside “from the day that I knew you,” that longer arc makes the rebellion read as a sustained pattern within relationship, not a single rupture.
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