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Israel Provoked God 1 "Hear, O Israel! You are crossing over the Jo…

Israel Provoked God

1 "Hear, O Israel! You are crossing over the Jordan today to go in to dispossess 1nations greater and mightier than you, great cities 2fortified to heaven,
2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know and of whom you have heard it said, '3Who can stand before the sons of Anak?'
3 "Know therefore today that 4it is the LORD your God who is crossing over before you as 5a consuming fire. He will destroy them and He will subdue them before you, so that 6you may drive them out and destroy them quickly, just as the LORD has spoken to you.
4 "7Do not say in your heart when the LORD your God has driven them out before * you, 'Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,' but it is 8because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is dispossessing them before * you.
5 "It is 9not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you are going to possess their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God is driving them out before * you, in order to confirm 10the oath which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
6 "Know, then, it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are 11a stubborn * people.
7 "Remember, do not forget how * you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness; 12from the day that you left the land of Egypt until you arrived at this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.
8 "Even 13at Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was so angry with you that He would have destroyed you.
9 "When I went up to the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the LORD had made with you, then I remained on the mountain forty days and nights; 14I neither ate bread nor drank water.
10 "The LORD gave me the two tablets of stone 15written by the finger of God; and on them were all the words which the LORD had spoken with you at the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.
11 "It came about 16at the end of forty days and nights that the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.
12 "17Then the LORD said to me, 'Arise, go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They have 18quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made a molten image for themselves.'
13 "The 19LORD spoke further to me, saying, 'I have seen this people, and indeed, it is a 20stubborn * people.
14 '21Let Me alone *, that I may destroy them and 22blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'
15 "23So I turned and came down from the mountain while the mountain was burning with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.
16 "And I saw that you had indeed sinned against the LORD your God. You had made for yourselves a molten calf; you had turned aside quickly from the way which the LORD had commanded you.
17 "I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands and smashed them before your eyes.
18 "24I fell down before the LORD, 25as at the first, forty days and nights; 26I neither ate bread nor drank water, 27because of all your sin which you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger.
19 "For 28I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the LORD was wrathful against you in order to destroy you, 29but the LORD listened to me that time also.
20 "The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him; so I also prayed for Aaron at the same time.
21 "30I took your sinful thing, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small until * it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that came down from the mountain.
22 "Again at 31Taberah and at 32Massah and at 33Kibroth-hattaavah you provoked the LORD to wrath.
23 "When the LORD sent you from 34Kadesh-barnea, saying, '35Go up and possess the land which I have given you,' then you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God; 36you neither believed Him nor listened to His voice.
24 "37You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day I knew you.
25 "38So I fell down before the LORD the forty days and nights, which I did because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
26 "39I prayed to the LORD and said, 'O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, even Your inheritance, whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
27 'Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look at the stubbornness of this people or at their wickedness or their sin.
28 'Otherwise the land from which You brought us may say, "40Because * the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which He had promised them and because He hated them He has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness."
29 'Yet they are Your people, even 41Your inheritance, whom You have brought out by Your 42great power and Your outstretched arm.'