Deuteronomy 9:8
in Deuteronomy 9At Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Also in Horeb ye provoked Jehovah to wrath, and Jehovah was angry with you 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.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 9
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Also in Horeb - Rather, “even in Horeb.” The time and circumstances made the apostasy at Horeb particularly inexcusable.
This site's exposition
Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath
on Deuteronomy 9:8-10
Horeb is named first among the provocations because the calf was made at the mountain where the law against it was being given, and while the mountain still burned. The forty days without bread or water at verse 9 is the fast of Exodus 24:18 and 34:28, kept again by Elijah at the same mountain in 1 Kings 19:8 and by Christ in the wilderness at Matthew 4:2 before he answered the tempter out of this book. Written with the finger of God repeats Exodus 31:18, and the day of the assembly renders the Hebrew qahal, which the Greek translators gave as ekklesia and which Cyril of Jerusalem made a point of in his catechetical lectures.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
That was a sin so heinous, and by several aggravations made so exceedingly sinful, that they deserved upon all occasions to be upbraided with it. It was done in the very place where the law was given by which they were expressly forbidden to worship God by images, and while the mountain was yet burning before their eyes, and Moses had gone up to fetch them the law in writing.
Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath,.... The word "also" shows that they had provoked him before, but this instance is given as a very notorious one; here they made the golden calf and worshipped it, while Moses was on the mount with God, receiving instructions from him for their good.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבְחֹרֵ֥ב | uvechorev | and at Horeb | H2722 → | 17 times |
| הִקְצַפְתֶּ֖ם | hiktzaftem | you provoked to anger | H7107 → | 34 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| יְהוָ֑ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| וַיִּתְאַנַּ֧ף | vaiyitanaf | and he was angry | H599 → | 14 times |
| יְהוָ֛ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| בָּכֶ֖ם | bakhem | with <the> you | ||
| לְהַשְׁמִ֥יד | lehashmid | to destroy | H8045 → | 90 times |
| אֶתְכֶֽם׃ | ʾetkhem | <obj.> you | H853 → | 10935 times |
וּבְחֹרֵ֥בand at Horeb
uvechorevH2722 →17 times
הִקְצַפְתֶּ֖םyou provoked to anger
hiktzaftemH7107 →34 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
יְהוָ֑הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
וַיִּתְאַנַּ֧ףand he was angry
vaiyitanafH599 →14 times
יְהוָ֛הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
בָּכֶ֖םwith <the> you
bakhem
לְהַשְׁמִ֥ידto destroy
lehashmidH8045 →90 times
אֶתְכֶֽם׃<obj.> you
ʾetkhemH853 →10935 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach 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 32:16The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
it leads to
- Exodus 31:18
When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
- Hebrews 8:10
For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And…
- Deuteronomy 9:15
So I went back down the mountain while it was blazing with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands.
- Exodus 34:1
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
- Deuteronomy 10:1
At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
- Exodus 31:18
Where this verse is studied
On this page
Studies1
About Deuteronomy
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.