Psalms 106:29
And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was multiplied among them.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
In Context
28They also were initiated to Beelphegor: and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
30Then Phinees stood up, and pacified him: and the slaughter ceased.
Cross References
Numbers 25:3And Israel was initiated to Beelphegor: upon which the Lord being angry,
Numbers 25:9And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.
Psalms 99:8Thou didst hear them, O Lord our God: thou wast a merciful God to them, and taking vengeance on all their inventions.
Ecclesiastes 7:29Which yet my soul seeketh, and I have not found it. One man among a thousand I have found, a woman among them all I have not found.
1 Corinthians 10:8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 106:14-34
Provocation of Israel in the Wilderness. 13 They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel: 14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. 15 And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul. 16 They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the Lord . 17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. 18 And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked. 19 They made a calf in Horeb, and… Read the whole commentary →