Deu 9:8, 12-22, Psa 78:32, 95:8-10, 106:13-32, Heb 3:16-19 | ESV | STEP | Even at Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath , and the Lord was so angry with you that he was ready to destroy you.

12 Then the Lord said to me, ^b‘Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly. They have ^cturned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them; they have made themselves a metal image.’

The Golden Calf

13 ^d“Furthermore, the Lord said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and behold, it is ^ea stubborn people. 14 ^fLet me alone, that I may destroy them and ^gblot out their name from under heaven. And ^hI will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’ 15 ⁱSo I turned and came down from the mountain, and ^jthe mountain was burning with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. 16 And ^kI looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God. You had made yourselves a golden ^{▼▼Hebrew cast metal} calf. ^mYou had turned aside quickly from the way that the Lord had commanded you. 17 So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes. 18 Then I ⁿlay prostrate before the Lord ^oas before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, ^pin doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger. 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure that the Lord bore against you, so that he was ready to destroy you. ^qBut the Lord listened to me that time also. 20 And the Lord was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him. And I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. 21 Then ^rI took the sinful thing, the calf that 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 the dust of it into the brook that ran down from the mountain.

22 “At ^sTaberah also, and at ^tMassah and at ^uKibroth-hattaavah you provoked the Lord to wrath.

Psalms 78:32

32 In spite of all this, they ^vstill sinned;
^wdespite his wonders, they did not believe.

Psalms 95:8-10

8 ^xdo not harden your hearts, as at ^yMeribah,
as on the day at ^zMassah in the wilderness,
9 when your fathers put me to the ^aatest
and put me to the proof, though they had seen my ^abwork.
10 ^acFor forty years I loathed that generation
and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart,
and they have not known ^admy ways.”

Psalms 106:13-32

13 But they soon ^aeforgot his works;
they did not wait for ^afhis counsel.
14 But they had ^aga wanton craving in the wilderness,
and ^ahput God to the test in the desert;
15 he ^aigave them what they asked,
but sent ^aja wasting disease among them.
16 When men in the camp ^akwere jealous of Moses
and Aaron, ^althe holy one of the Lord,
17 ^amthe earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
and covered the company of Abiram.
18 ^anFire also broke out in their company;
the flame burned up the wicked.
19 They ^aomade a calf in Horeb
and worshiped a metal image.
20 They ^apexchanged the glory of God ^{▼▼Hebrew exchanged their glory}
for the image of an ox that eats grass.
21 They ^arforgot God, their Savior,
who had done great things in Egypt,
22 wondrous works in ^asthe land of Ham,
and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
23 Therefore ^athe said he would destroy them—
had not Moses, his ^auchosen one,
^avstood in the breach before him,
to turn away his wrath from destroying them.
24 Then they ^awdespised ^axthe pleasant land,
having ^ayno faith in his promise.
25 They ^azmurmured in their tents,
and did not obey the voice of the Lord.
26 Therefore he ^baraised his hand and swore to them
that he would make them fall in the wilderness,
27 and would make their offspring fall among the nations,
^bbscattering them among the lands.
28 Then they ^bcyoked themselves to the ^bdBaal of Peor,
and ate sacrifices offered to ^bethe dead;
29 they provoked the Lord to anger with their deeds,
and a plague broke out among them.
30 Then ^bfPhinehas stood up and intervened,
and the plague was stayed.
31 And that was ^bgcounted to him as righteousness
from generation to generation forever.
32 They ^bhangered him at the waters of Meribah,
and it went ill with Moses on their account,

Hebrews 3:16-19

16 For ^biwho were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not ^bjall those who left Egypt led by Moses? 17 And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, ^bkwhose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did he swear that ^blthey would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19 So we see that ^bmthey were unable to enter because of unbelief.