Deuteronomy 9:23
And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and take the land which I have given you; you went against the orders of the Lord your God, and had no faith in him, and would not give ear to his voice.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
22Again at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you made the Lord angry.
24From the day when I first had knowledge of you, you have gone against the word of the Lord.
Cross References
Numbers 13:1And the Lord said to Moses,
Numbers 14:2And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land!
Numbers 14:10But all the people said they were to be stoned. Then the glory of the Lord was seen in the Tent of meeting, before the eyes of all the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 1:19Then we went on from Horeb, through all that great and cruel waste which you saw, on our way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as the Lord gave us orders; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
Psalms 106:24They were disgusted with the good land; they had no belief in his word;
Hebrews 3:18And to whom did he make an oath that they might not come into his rest? was it not to those who went against his orders?
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 9:8-29
Cautions Against Self-Righteousness; Israel Reminded of Their Rebellions. ( b. c. 1451.) 7 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 . 8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry with you to have destroyed you. 9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the… Read the whole commentary →