Bible Cross References
And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
Psalm 78:32
In spite of all this the people kept sinning; in spite of his miracles they did not trust him.
Psalm 95:8-10
8
"Don't be stubborn, as your ancestors were at Meribah, as they were that day in the desert at Massah.
9
There they put me to the test and tried me, although they had seen what I did for them.
10
For forty years I was disgusted with those people. I said, 'How disloyal they are! They refuse to obey my commands.'
Psalm 106:13-32
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But they quickly forgot what he had done and acted without waiting for his advice.
14
They were filled with craving in the desert and put God to the test;
15
so he gave them what they asked for, but also sent a terrible disease among them.
16
There in the desert they were jealous of Moses and of Aaron, the LORD's holy servant.
17
Then the earth opened up and swallowed Dathan and buried Abiram and his family;
18
fire came down on their followers and burned up those wicked people.
19
They made a gold bull-calf at Sinai and worshiped that idol;
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they exchanged the glory of God for the image of an animal that eats grass.
21
They forgot the God who had saved them by his mighty acts in Egypt.
22
What wonderful things he did there! What amazing things at the Red Sea!
23
When God said that he would destroy his people, his chosen servant, Moses, stood up against God and kept his anger from destroying them.
24
Then they rejected the pleasant land, because they did not believe God's promise.
25
They stayed in their tents and grumbled and would not listen to the LORD.
26
So he have them a solomn warning that he would make them die in the desert
27
and scatter their descendants among the heathen, letting them die in foreign countries.
28
Then at Peor, God's people joined in the worship of Baal and ate sacrifices offered to dead gods.
29
They stirred up the LORD's anger by their actions, and a terrible disease broke out among them.
30
But Phinehas stood up and punished the guilty, and the plague was stopped.
31
This has been remembered in his favor ever since and will be for all time to come.
32
At the springs of Meribah the people made the LORD angry, and Moses was in trouble on their account.
Deuteronomy 9:8
Even at Mount Sinai you made the LORD angry---angry enough to destroy you.
Deuteronomy 9:12-22
12
"Then the LORD said to me, 'Go down the mountain at once, because your people, whom you led out of Egypt, have become corrupt and have done evil. They have already turned away from what I commanded them to do, and they have made an idol for themselves.'
13
"The LORD also said to me, 'I know how stubborn these people are.
14
Don't try to stop me. I intend to destroy them so that no one will remember them any longer. Then I will make you the father of a nation larger and more powerful than they are.'
15
"So I turned and went down the mountain, carrying the two stone tablets on which the covenant was written. Flames of fire were coming from the mountain.
16
I saw that you had already disobeyed the command that the LORD your God had given you, and that you had sinned against him by making yourselves a metal idol in the form of a bull-calf.
17
So there in front of you I threw the stone tablets down and broke them to pieces.
18
Then once again I lay face downward in the LORD's presence for forty days and nights and did not eat or drink anything. I did this because you had sinned against the LORD and had made him angry.
19
I was afraid of the LORD's fierce anger, because he was furious enough to destroy you; but once again the LORD listened to me.
20
The LORD was also angry enough with Aaron to kill him, so I prayed for Aaron at the same time.
21
I took that sinful thing that you had made---that metal bull-calf---and threw it into the fire. Then I broke it in pieces, ground it to dust, and threw the dust into the stream that flowed down the mountain.
22
"You also made the LORD your God angry when you were at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth Hattaavah.
Hebrews 3:16-19
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Who were the people who heard God's voice and rebelled against him? All those who were led out of Egypt by Moses.
17
With whom was God angry for forty years? With the people who sinned, who fell down dead in the desert.
18
When God made his solemn promise, "They will never enter the land where I would have given them rest"---of whom was he speaking? Of those who rebelled.
19
We see, then, that they were not able to enter the land, because they did not believe.