Deuteronomy 9:8
6 Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.
7 Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.
At Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.
9 When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.
10 Then the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by the finger of God with the exact words that the LORD spoke to you out of the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- At Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.
- KJV
- Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
- WEB
- Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was angry with you to destroy you.
- ASV
- Also in Horeb ye provoked Jehovah to wrath, and Jehovah was angry with you to destroy you.
- DARBY
- And at Horeb ye provoked Jehovah to wrath, and Jehovah was angry with you, to destroy you,
- BLB
- And in Horeb you⁺ provoked YHWH to wrath, and YHWH was angry with you⁺ to destroy you⁺.
- ÅB
- Allerede ved Horeb vakte dere Herrens vrede, og Herren harmedes på dere, så han ville ha gjort ende på dere.
- OTB
- Ved Horeb vakte du Herrens vrede slik at Han var klar til å ødelegge deg.
- B1930
- Allerede ved Horeb vakte I Herrens vrede, og Herren harmedes på eder, så han vilde ha gjort ende på eder.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 106:19–22
At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.
Read in contextExodus 32:16
The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
Read in contextExodus 32:7–10
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.
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