Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
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Gill's Exposition
Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath,.... The word "also" shows that they had provoked him before, but this instance is given as a very notorious one; here they made the golden calf and…
Barnes' Notes
Also in Horeb - Rather, “even in Horeb.” The time and circumstances made the apostasy at Horeb particularly inexcusable.
That they might have no pretence to think that God brought them to Canaan for their righteousness, Moses here shows them what a miracle of mercy it was that they had not long ere this been destroyed…
Cambridge Bible
Even (or particularly) in Horeb The most notorious rebellion of all. Here begins the recital of the sin of the golden calf as in Exodus 32-34, JE.
provoked, etc.] Deu 9:9.
was angry See on Deu 1:37.