When your miraculous deliverance out of Egypt was fresh in memory; when God had but newly manifested himself to you in so stupendous and dreadful a manner, and had taken you into covenant with himself; when God was actually conferring further mercies upon you.
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Deuteronomy 9:8
8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.