Deuteronomy 10:10

“And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights, etc.] Which is to be connected with (<051006>Deuteronomy 10:6) and relates what passed before he came down from the mount with the two tables; as that he stayed there as long as he did when he received the first tables, and fasted also as long as he did then; (see <023428>Exodus 34:28) and the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also; to his prayer on the behalf of the people: and the Lord would not destroy thee; though he had threatened it, and their sin had deserved it.”

“Moses here resumes his address, and having made a passing allusion to the principal events in their history, concludes by exhorting them to fear the Lord and serve Him faithfully.”

“These verses are closely connected with the preceding chapter, and state very briefly the results of the intercession of Moses recorded in Deuteronomy 9:25-29. The people are reminded that all their blessings and privileges, forfeited by apostasy as soon as bestowed, were only now their own by a new and most unmerited act of grace on the part of God, won from Him by the self-sacrificing mediation of Moses himself Deuteronomy 10:10. Deuteronomy 10:1-5. The order for making the ark and tabernacle was evidently given before the apostasy of the people (Exo. 25ff); but the tables were not put in the ark until the completion and dedication of the tabernacle Exodus 40:0. But here as elsewhere…”

“I stayed: Deu 9:18, Deu 9:25; Exo 24:18, Exo 34:28 first time: or, former days the Lord hearkened: Deu 3:23-27, Deu 9:19; Exo 32:14, Exo 32:33, Exo 32:34, Exo 33:17; Mat 27:42 Deuteronomy 10:11”