Deuteronomy 9:8

Deuteronomy 9:8 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry with you to have destroyed you.
• New International Version (NIV)At Horeb you aroused the Lord’s wrath so that he was angry enough to destroy you.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Even at Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, and the Lord was so angry with you that he was ready to destroy you.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Also in Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry enough with you to have destroyed you.

Context of Deuteronomy 9:8

6Understand that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people. 7“Remember and do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God in the wilderness. You have been rebelling against the Lord from the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place. You provoked the Lord at Horeb, and he was angry enough with you to destroy you. 9When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant the Lord made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I did not eat food or drink water. 10On the day of the assembly the Lord gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by God’s finger. The exact words were on them, which the Lord spoke to you from the fire on the mountain.

Deuteronomy 9:8 word by word

וּבְחֹרֵ֥ב הִקְצַפְתֶּ֖ם אֶת־יְהוָ֑ה וַיִּתְאַנַּ֧ף יְהוָ֛ה בָּכֶ֖ם לְהַשְׁמִ֥יד אֶתְכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Also in Horebחֹרֵבchôrêb · HorebH2722
• ye provokedקָצַףqâtsaph · be angryH7107
• the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• was angryאָנַף'ânaph · be angryH599
• with you to have destroyedשָׁמַדshâmad · to destroyH8045

Cross-references for Deuteronomy 9:8

• Exodus 32:16The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was God’s writing, engraved on the tablets.
• Psalms 106:19At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped the cast metal image.

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 9:8

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Also in Horeb - Rather, “even in Horeb.” The time and circumstances made the apostasy at Horeb particularly inexcusable.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-29Verses 7-29 That the Israelites might have no pretence to think that God brought them to Canaan for their righteousness, Moses shows what a miracle of mercy it was, that they had not been destroyed in the wilderness. It is good for us often to remember against ourselves, with sorrow and shame, our former sins; that we may see how much we are indebted to free grace, and may humbly own that we never merited any thing but wrath and the curse at God's hand…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. Also in Horeb--rather, "even in Horeb," where it might have been expected they would have acted otherwise.Read the comment

Topics related to Deuteronomy 9:8

• Horeb
• Humility

In the dictionaries

• Horeb
• Sinai, Horeb
• Carefully
• Rebellious
• Calf, Golden

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings