The Penalty for Israel’s Rebellion

“And the Lord heard the sound of your words, and was angry, and took an oath, saying,

The Lord was also angry with me for your sakes, saying, ‘Even you shall not go in there.

“But the Lord was angry with me on your account, and would not listen to me. So the Lord said to me: ‘Enough of that! Speak no more to Me of this matter.

Furthermore the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I would not cross over the Jordan, and that I would not enter the good land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Also in Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry enough with you to have destroyed you.

For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the Lord was angry with you, to destroy you. But the Lord listened to me at that time also.

And the Lord was very angry with Aaron and would have destroyed him; so I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.