Psalms 78:18
And they tempted God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
In Context
17Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert;
19And they spoke against God: they said, Is God able to prepare a table in the wilderness?
Cross References
Exodus 17:2And the people contended with Moses, and said, Give us water, that we may drink! And Moses said to them, Why do ye dispute with me? Why do ye tempt Jehovah?
Numbers 11:4And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted; and the children of Israel also wept again and said, Who will give us flesh to eat?
Psalms 95:9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
1 Corinthians 10:6But these things happened [as] types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.
James 4:2Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:10-40
Wonders Wrought in Behalf of Israel; The Crimes of the Israelites; 9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. 10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; 11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had showed them. 12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as a heap. 14 In the daytime… Read the whole commentary →