What Does Deuteronomy 9:26 Mean in the King James?
I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
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 plea turns on a completed exit: the people facing destruction are the same people already brought out of constriction by God’s mighty hand.
THE MEANING
You are named here as belonging to God even while the prayer faces the possibility of destruction. The appeal rests on an exit already accomplished: a mighty hand has brought the people out of Egypt. The verse holds threatened loss beside remembered deliverance.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that a threatened people have already ceased to belong: the prayer still names them as God’s people and inheritance.
THE ROOT
הוֹצֵאתָ
hotsēta
GROWS FROM
יצא
yatsa
To go out, emerge, or depart; in this form, to bring out.
The Hebrew form behind brought forth is causative: it makes go out into bring out. Egypt is named מִצְרַיִם (Mitzrayim, the two narrows); the plea remembers that God has already carried this people out from constriction.
ALSO GROWS
yatsa: To go out or depart.
יָצָא
The simple form names the movement that the verse’s causative form makes possible: the people go out because God brings them out.
yetzi’ah: Going out, departure, or exit.
יְצִיאָה
This noun makes the departure an event and a threshold, echoing the passage out of constriction remembered in the prayer.
חֲזָקָה
ḥazaqah
GROWS FROM
חזק
ḥazaq
To be strong or firm; to strengthen.
The mighty hand is described with a word from the root of being strong and making firm. Here strength is the force that makes the people’s exit real.
ALSO GROWS
ḥazaq: To be strong, firm, or prevail.
חָזַק
The root verb names strength as a state of firmness, giving the mighty hand a quality of steadiness.
ḥizzēq: To strengthen or make firm.
חִזֵּק
The same consonants turn strength into an action, fitting the hand that carries the people out.
THE PATTERN
Preservation is asked on the ground of belonging and deliverance already established.
Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:THE THREAD
And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.Both verses use forms of יָצָא (yatsa, go out): Deuteronomy says God brought the people out, while Exodus names that same bringing out directly. The exit is the remembered ground for the plea that the people not be destroyed.
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