Deuteronomy 9:22

THE MESSAGE

And then there was Camp Taberah (Blaze), Massah (Testing-Place), and Camp Kibroth Hattaavah (Graves-of-the-Craving)—more occasions when you made God furious with you.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
At Tav`erah, and at Massah, and at Kivrot-Hatta'avah, you provoked the LORD to wrath.

King James Version
And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the Lord to wrath.

Lexham English Bible
"And also at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to anger.

English Standard Version
"At Taberah also, and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you provoked the Lord to wrath.

New Century Version
You also made the Lord angry at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth Hattaavah.

New English Translation
Moreover, you continued to provoke the Lord at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.

Amplified Bible
"At Taberah also and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you provoked the LORD to wrath.

New American Standard Bible
"Then at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah you kept provoking the LORD to anger.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Also in Taberah, & in Massah and in Kibrothhattaauah ye prouoked ye Lord to anger.

Legacy Standard Bible
"Again at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to wrath.

Contemporary English Version
You also made the Lord angry when you were staying at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-Hattaavah.

Complete Jewish Bible
"Again at Tav‘erah, Massah and Kivrot-HaTa'avah you made Adonai angry;

Darby Translation
And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked Jehovah to wrath.

Easy-to-Read Version
"Also, at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth Hattaavah you made the Lord angry.

George Lamsa Translation
And in heat, and in trials, and at the Kabrey di ragrigtha the people lusted for meat; you provoked the LORD to anger.

Good News Translation
"You also made the Lord your God angry when you were at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth Hattaavah.

Christian Standard Bible®
“You continued to provoke the Lord at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-hattaavah.

Literal Translation
And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at The Graves of Lust you provoked Jehovah to anger.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye displeased the LORDE also, at Tabera, and at Massa, and at the lustgraues,

American Standard Version
And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked Jehovah to wrath.

Bible in Basic English
Again at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you made the Lord angry.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Also at the burnyng place, at the place of temptyng, and at the sepulchres of lust, ye prouoked the Lorde to anger.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye made the LORD wroth.

King James Version (1611)
And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-Hattaauah, ye prouoked the Lord to wrath.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Also in the burning, and in the temptation, and at the graves of lust, ye provoked the Lord.

English Revised Version
And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.

Berean Standard Bible
You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-hattaavah.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also in the brennyng, and in the temptacioun at the watris of ayenseiyng, and in the Sepulcris of Coueytise, ye terriden the Lord;

Young's Literal Translation
`And in Taberah, and in Massah, and in Kibroth-Hattaavah, ye have been making Jehovah wroth:

Update Bible Version
And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.

Webster's Bible Translation
And at Taberah, and at Massah, and Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.

World English Bible
At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.

New King James Version
"Also at Taberah and Massah and Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked the LORD to wrath.

New Living Translation
"You also made the Lord angry at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-hattaavah.

New Life Bible
"You made the Lord angry again at Taberah, Massah and Kibroth-hattaavah.

New Revised Standard
At Taberah also, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you provoked the Lord to wrath.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Also, at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hataavah, a cause of provocation, became ye unto Yahweh.

Douay-Rheims Bible
At the burning also, and at the place of temptation, and at the graves of lust you provoked the Lord:

Revised Standard Version
"At Tab'erah also, and at Massah, and at Kib'roth-hatta'avah, you provoked the LORD to wrath.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Again at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you provoked the LORD to wrath.

Contextual Overview

¹¹It was at the end of the forty days and nights that God gave me the two slabs of stone, the tablets of the covenant. God said to me, "Get going, and quickly. Get down there, because your people whom you led out of Egypt have ruined everything. In almost no time at all they have left the road that I laid out for them and gone off and made for themselves a cast god." ¹³ God said, "I look at this people and all I see are hardheaded, hardhearted rebels. Get out of my way now so I can destroy them. I'm going to wipe them off the face of the map. Then I'll start over with you to make a nation far better and bigger than they could ever be." ¹⁵I turned around and started down the mountain—by now the mountain was blazing with fire—carrying the two tablets of the covenant in my two arms. That's when I saw it: There you were, sinning against God , your God—you had made yourselves a cast god in the shape of a calf! So soon you had left the road that God had commanded you to walk on. I held the two stone slabs high and threw them down, smashing them to bits as you watched. ¹⁸Then I prostrated myself before God , just as I had at the beginning of the forty days and nights. I ate no food; I drank no water. I did this because of you, all your sins, sinning against God , doing what is evil in God 's eyes and making him angry. I was terrified of God 's furious anger, his blazing anger. I was sure he would destroy you. But once again God listened to me. And Aaron! How furious he was with Aaron—ready to destroy him. But I prayed also for Aaron at that same time. ²¹ But that sin-thing that you made, that calf-god, I took and burned in the fire, pounded and ground it until it was crushed into a fine powder, then threw it into the stream that comes down the mountain. ²² And then there was Camp Taberah (Blaze), Massah (Testing-Place), and Camp Kibroth Hattaavah (Graves-of-the-Craving)—more occasions when you made God furious with you. ²³The most recent was when God sent you out from Kadesh Barnea, ordering you: "Go. Possess the land that I'm giving you." And what did you do? You rebelled. Rebelled against the clear orders of God , your God. Refused to trust him. Wouldn't obey him. You've been rebels against God from the first day I knew you. ²⁵When I was on my face, prostrate before God those forty days and nights after God said he would destroy you, I prayed to God for you, "My Master, God , don't destroy your people, your inheritance whom, in your immense generosity, you redeemed, using your enormous strength to get them out of Egypt. ²⁷"Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; don't make too much of the stubbornness of this people, their evil and their sin, lest the Egyptians from whom you rescued them say, ‘ God couldn't do it; he got tired and wasn't able to take them to the land he promised them. He ended up hating them and dumped them in the wilderness to die.' ²⁹ "They are your people still, your inheritance whom you powerfully and sovereignly rescued."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Taberah: Numbers 11:1-5

Massah: Exodus 17:7

Kibrothhattaavah: Numbers 11:4, Numbers 11:34

Reciprocal: Numbers 14:11 - provoke Psalms 78:40 - How oft Psalms 106:14 - But Isaiah 1:2 - they have Isaiah 63:10 - they rebelled Jeremiah 32:30 - children Hebrews 3:8 - as

Cross-References

Genesis 9:12
God continued, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and everything living around you and everyone living after you. I'm putting my rainbow in the clouds, a sign of the covenant between me and the Earth. From now on, when I form a cloud over the Earth and the rainbow appears in the cloud, I'll remember my covenant between me and you and everything living, that never again will floodwaters destroy all life. When the rainbow appears in the cloud, I'll see it and remember the eternal covenant between God and everything living, every last living creature on Earth."

Genesis 9:20
Noah, a farmer, was the first to plant a vineyard. He drank from its wine, got drunk and passed out, naked in his tent. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked and told his two brothers who were outside the tent. Shem and Japheth took a cloak, held it between them from their shoulders, walked backward and covered their father's nakedness, keeping their faces turned away so they did not see their father's exposed body.

Genesis 10:6
The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, Canaan.

1 Chronicles 1:8
Ham had Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

Proverbs 25:9
In the heat of an argument, don't betray confidences; Word is sure to get around, and no one will trust you.

Proverbs 30:17
An eye that disdains a father and despises a mother— that eye will be plucked out by wild vultures and consumed by young eagles.

Matthew 18:15
"If a fellow believer hurts you, go and tell him—work it out between the two of you. If he listens, you've made a friend. If he won't listen, take one or two others along so that the presence of witnesses will keep things honest, and try again. If he still won't listen, tell the church. If he won't listen to the church, you'll have to start over from scratch, confront him with the need for repentance, and offer again God's forgiving love.

Galatians 6:1
Live creatively, friends. If someone falls into sin, forgivingly restore him, saving your critical comments for yourself. You might be needing forgiveness before the day's out. Stoop down and reach out to those who are oppressed. Share their burdens, and so complete Christ's law. If you think you are too good for that, you are badly deceived.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the Lord to wrath. These places are not mentioned in the strict order in which the provocations were made at them; for they provoked the Lord at Massah by murmuring for water, before they provoked him at Taberah, by complaining as it should seem of their journeying; for Massah was before they came to Sinai, and Taberah after they departed from thence; though some, as Aben Ezra observes, say that Taberah is Massah; but it could not be the Massah in Rephidim, for that was on one side of Mount Sinai, and Taberah on another; though different places might be so called from their tempting the Lord at them; rather Taberah and Kibrothhattaavah seem to be the same; where the people died with the flesh in their mouths they lusted after, and were buried; since no mention is made of their removal at that time from the one place to the other, nor of Taberah in the account of their journeys, only Kibrothhattaavah; see Exodus 17:7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the marginal reference. Taberah was the name of a spot in or near the station of Kibroth-hattaavah, and accordingly is not named in the list of encampments given in Numbers 33:16. The separate mention of the two is, however, appropriate here, for each place and each name was a memorial of an act of rebellion. The instances in this and the next verse are not given in order of occurrence. The speaker for his own purposes advances from the slighter to the more heinous proofs of guilt.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 9:22. At Kibroth-hattaavah — Numbers 11:34; Numbers 11:34.