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Deuteronomy 9:22

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You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked Jehovah to wrath.

KJV

And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth–hattaavah, ye provoked the Lord to wrath.

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This verse in Deuteronomy 9

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
See the marginal reference. Taberah was the name of a spot in or near the station of Kibroth-hattaavah, and accordingly is not named in the list of encampments given in Num 33:16. The separate mention of the two is, however, appropriate here, for each place and each name was a memorial of an act of rebellion. The instances in this and the next verse are not given in order of occurrence. The speaker for his own purposes advances from the slighter to the more heinous proofs of guilt.

This site's exposition

And at Taberah, and at Massah

on Deuteronomy 9:22-24

Four more places are named and they do not stand in the order they happened. Taberah is Numbers 11:3, Massah is Exodus 17:7 and is the failure Christ answers with at Matthew 4:7 by quoting Deuteronomy 6:16, Kibroth-hattaavah is Numbers 11:34, and Kadesh-barnea is the refusal of Numbers 13 and 14. Barnes reads the arrangement as moving from the lighter proofs of guilt to the heavier, which lands the list on ye rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God. Verse 24 then closes the indictment with a span rather than an incident, from the day that I knew you.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the Lord to wrath.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

At Kibroth-hattaavah - See the note on Num 11:34.

The words behind it

8 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וּבְתַבְעֵרָה֙and at Taberah

    uvetaverahH8404 →

  • וּבְמַסָּ֔הand at Massah

    uvemasahH4532 →5 times

  • וּבְקִבְרֹ֖תand at Kibroth

    uvekivrotH6914 →

  • הַֽתַּאֲוָ֑הHattaavah

    hataavahH6914 →

  • מַקְצִפִ֥יםprovoking to anger

    maktzifimH7107 →34 times

  • הֱיִיתֶ֖םyou were

    heyitemH1961 →3559 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • יְהוָֽה׃Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

6 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Exodus 17:7He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”8 worksNumbers 11:34So they called that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.8 worksNumbers 11:3So that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD had burned among them.6 worksNumbers 11:1–5Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.5 worksNumbers 16:46Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”2 worksPsalms 106:14They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.2 works

The walk

7 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Exodus 17:7

    He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”

    it leads to

    • Psalms 81:7

      You called out in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you from the cloud of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah

    • Psalms 95:8

      do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,

    • Numbers 20:13

      These were the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the LORD, and He showed His holiness among them.

    • Hebrews 3:8–9

      do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,

    • Exodus 17:2

      So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?”

  • Through

    Numbers 11:34

    So they called that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.

    it leads to

    • 1 Corinthians 10:6

      These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.

    • Numbers 33:16

      They set out from the Wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.

Where this verse is studied

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About Deuteronomy

Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Deuteronomy: the study guide →Read Deuteronomy 9 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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