asCited from Amos 5:25-27
auSee 1 Kgs. 11:7
Exodus 16:2
2And the whole congregation of the people of Israel agrumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,Exodus 16:35
35The people of Israel bate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land. They ate the manna till cthey came to the border of the land of Canaan.Numbers 14:22
22 dnone of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these eten times and have not obeyed my voice,Numbers 14:33-34
33And your children fshall be shepherds in the wilderness gforty years and shall hsuffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness. 34 iAccording to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, jforty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’Deuteronomy 9:7
7Remember and do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. kFrom the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord.Deuteronomy 9:21-24
21Then lI 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 mTaberah also, and at nMassah and at oKibroth-hattaavah you provoked the Lord to wrath. 23And pwhen the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Go up and take possession of the land that I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God and qdid not believe him or obey his voice. 24 rYou have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.
Nehemiah 9:16-21
16“But they and our fathers sacted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments. 17They refused to obey tand were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, ugracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them. 18Even vwhen they had made for themselves a golden ▼▼Hebrew metal
calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ xand had committed great blasphemies, 19you yin your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness. zThe pillar of cloud to lead them in the way did not depart from them by day, aanor the pillar of fire by night to light for them the way by which they should go. 20 abYou gave your good Spirit to instruct them acand did not withhold your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst. 21 adForty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell. Acts 7:36
36 aeThis man led them out, performing afwonders and signs agin Egypt and ahat the Red Sea and aiin the wilderness for ajforty years.Acts 7:39-43
39Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and akin their hearts they turned to Egypt, 40saying to Aaron, al‘Make for us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’ 41And amthey made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and anwere rejoicing in aothe works of their hands. 42But apGod turned away and aqgave them over to worship arthe host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:as“‘Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices,
atduring the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
43You took up the tent of auMoloch
and the star of your god Rephan,
the images that you made to worship;
and I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’
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