Deuteronomy 9:9
when I went up into the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant, which the Lord made with you, and I was in the mountain forty days and forty nights, I ate no bread and drank no water.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
8Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord, and the Lord was angry with you to destroy you;
Cross References
Exodus 24:15And Moses and Joshua went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
Exodus 31:18And he gave to Moses when he left off speaking to him in Mount Sinai the two tables of testimony, tables of stone written upon with the finger of God.
Exodus 34:28And Moses was there before the Lord forty days, and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water; and he wrote upon the tables these words of the covenant, the ten sayings.
Deuteronomy 9:18And I made my petition before the Lord as also at the first forty days and forty nights: I ate no bread and drank no water, on account of all your sins which ye sinned in doing evil before the Lord God to provoke him.
1 Kings 19:8And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights to Mount Horeb.
Jeremiah 31:31Therefore howl ye for Moab on all sides; cry out against the shorn men in a gloomy place. I will weep for thee,
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 →