John Gill's Exposition on Deuteronomy 9:8

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath, etc.] 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. Near to this place a rock had been smitten for them, from whence flowed water for the refreshment of them and their cattle; here the Lord appeared in the glory of his majesty to them, and from hence, for it is the same mount with Sinai, the law was given to them in such an awful and terrible manner; and yet none of these things were sufficient to restrain them from provoking the Lord to wrath by their sins: so that the Lord was angry with you, to have destroyed you; so very angry with them, and so justly, that he proposed to Moses to destroy them, and make of him a great nation in their stead, (<023210>Exodus 32:10).

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