Deuteronomy 9:8

Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was angry with you to destroy you.

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In The King James Version

Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.

In Context

7Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.

9When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.

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Cross References

Exodus 32:7The LORD spoke to Moses, “Go, get down; for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!

Deuteronomy 1:6“The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, ‘You have lived long enough at this mountain.

Psalms 106:19They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped a molten image.

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 →

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