Deuteronomy 9:8

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At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.

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  • Exod 32:7-9 : 7 The LORD spoke to Moses:“Go quickly, descend, because your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have acted corruptly. 8 They have quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them– they have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said,‘These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt.’” 9 Then the LORD said to Moses:“I have seen this people. Look what a stiff-necked people they are! 10 So now, leave me alone so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation.”
  • Exod 32:16 : 16 Now the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
  • Ps 106:19-22 : 19 They made an image of a calf at Horeb, and worshiped a metal idol. 20 They traded their majestic God for the image of an ox that eats grass. 21 They rejected the God who delivered them, the one who performed great deeds in Egypt, 22 amazing feats in the land of Ham, mighty acts by the Red Sea.

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  • Deut 9:22-25
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    22 Moreover, you continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.

    23 And when he sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you,“Go up and possess the land I have given you,” you rebelled against the LORD your God and would neither believe nor obey him.

    24 You have been rebelling against him from the very first day I knew you!

    25 Moses’ Plea on Behalf of God’s Reputation I lay flat on the ground before the LORD for forty days and nights, for he had said he would destroy you.

  • 7 The History of Israel’s Stubbornness Remember– don’t ever forget– how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness; from the time you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place you were constantly rebelling against him.

  • Deut 9:15-20
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    15 So I turned and went down the mountain while it was blazing with fire; the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

    16 When I looked, you had indeed sinned against the LORD your God and had cast for yourselves a metal calf; you had quickly turned aside from the way he had commanded you!

    17 I grabbed the two tablets, threw them down, and shattered them before your very eyes.

    18 Then I again fell down before the LORD for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the LORD as to enrage him.

    19 For I was terrified at the LORD’s intense anger that threatened to destroy you. But he listened to me this time as well.

    20 The LORD was also angry enough at Aaron to kill him, but at that time I prayed for him too.

  • 34 Judgment at Kadesh Barnea When the LORD heard you, he became angry and made this vow:

  • 18 even when they made a cast image of a calf for themselves and said,‘This is your God who brought you up from Egypt,’ or when they committed atrocious blasphemies.

  • 37 As for me, the LORD was also angry with me on your account. He said,“You also will not be able to go there.

  • 8 That is what will result from your making me angry by what you are doing. You are making me angry by sacrificing to other gods here in the land of Egypt where you live. You will be destroyed for doing that! You will become an example used in curses and an object of ridicule among all the nations of the earth.

  • 27 You complained among yourselves privately and said,“Because the LORD hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!

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    15 for the LORD your God, who is present among you, is a jealous God and his anger will erupt against you and remove you from the land.

    16 Exhortation to Obey the Lord Exclusively You must not put the LORD your God to the test as you did at Massah.

  • 43 I spoke to you, but you did not listen. Instead you rebelled against the LORD and recklessly went up to the hill country.

  • 10 So the anger of the LORD was kindled that day, and he swore,

  • 14 For in the wilderness of Zin when the community rebelled against me, you rebelled against my command to show me as holy before their eyes over the water– the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.”

  • 40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and insulted him in the wastelands!

  • 17 Then the anger of the LORD will erupt against you and he will close up the sky so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed from the good land that the LORD is about to give you.

  • 26 But the LORD was angry at me because of you and would not listen to me. Instead, he said to me,“Enough of that! Do not speak to me anymore about this matter.

  • 2 Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the wilderness so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

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    9 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.

    10 The LORD gave me the two stone tablets, written by the very finger of God, and on them was everything he said to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire at the time of that assembly.

    11 Now at the end of the forty days and nights the LORD presented me with the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

    12 And he said to me,“Get up, go down at once from here because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have sinned! They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them and have made for themselves a cast metal image.”

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    58 They made him angry with their pagan shrines, and made him jealous with their idols.

    59 God heard and was angry; he completely rejected Israel.

  • 9 The anger of the LORD burned against them, and he departed.

  • 5 They did not see what he did to you in the wilderness before you reached this place,

  • 18 Now today you dare to turn back from following the LORD! You are rebelling today against the LORD; tomorrow he may break out in anger against the entire community of Israel.

  • 7 So, now the LORD says,‘You have not listened to me. But you have made me angry by the things that you have done. Thus you have brought harm on yourselves.’

  • 6 Events at Horeb The LORD our God spoke to us at Horeb and said,“You have stayed in the area of this mountain long enough.

  • 9 “There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.

  • 21 When the LORD heard this, he was furious. A fire broke out against Jacob, and his anger flared up against Israel,

  • 27 That is why the LORD’s anger erupted against this land, bringing on it all the curses written in this scroll.

  • 28 Otherwise the people of the land from which you brought us will say,“The LORD was unable to bring them to the land he promised them, and because of his hatred for them he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.”

  • 32 They made him angry by the waters of Meribah, and Moses suffered because of them,

  • 20 A Divine Decision The LORD was furious with Israel. He said,“This nation has violated the terms of the covenant I made with their ancestors by disobeying me.

  • 32 However, through all this you did not have confidence in the LORD your God,

  • 51 for both of you rebelled against me among the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin when you did not show me proper respect among the Israelites.

  • 16 If you violate the covenantal laws of the LORD your God which he commanded you to keep, and follow, worship, and bow down to other gods, the LORD will be very angry with you and you will disappear quickly from the good land which he gave to you.”

  • 17 Yet they continued to sin against him, and rebelled against the Most High in the desert.

  • 19 Then we left Horeb and passed through all that immense, forbidding wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the LORD our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.

  • 21 But the LORD became angry with me because of you and vowed that I would never cross the Jordan nor enter the good land that he is about to give you.

  • 16 “But they– our ancestors– behaved presumptuously; they rebelled and did not obey your commandments.

  • 8 He says,“Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,