And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
Moses was rehearsing Israel's history to remind them that their repeated rebellion had moved the Lord on several occasions to purpose their destruction. He threw the breaking of the two tablets into that larger account of provocation and threatened judgment. He stressed that his own earnest intercession had prevailed so that God graciously spared the people instead of cutting them off. He set that sparing mercy alongside the mighty acts the Lord had performed against Pharaoh and all Egypt, deeds their own eyes had witnessed. He then made both that deliverance from deserved destruction and that eyewitness experience the ground of his appeal that they keep all the commandments. Obedience was the way they would be strong and go in and possess the promised land.
Moses was rehearsing Israel's history to remind them that their repeated rebellion had moved the Lord on several occasions to purpose their destruction. He threw the breaking of the two tablets into that larger account of provocation and threatened judgment. He stressed that his own earnest intercession had prevailed so that God graciously spared the people instead of cutting them off. He set that sparing mercy alongside the mighty acts the Lord had performed against Pharaoh and all Egypt, deeds their own eyes had witnessed. He then made both that deliverance from deserved destruction and that eyewitness experience the ground of his appeal that they keep all the commandments. Obedience was the way they would be strong and go in and possess the promised land.