Psalms 78:18
And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their desires.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
In Context
19And they spoke ill of God: they said: Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
Cross References
Exodus 17:2And they chode with Moses, and said: Give us water, that we may drink. And Moses answered them: Why chide you with me? Wherefore do you tempt the Lord?
Numbers 11:4For a mixt multitude of people, that came up with them, burned with desire, sitting and weeping, the children of Israel also being joined with them, and said: Who shall give us flesh to eat?
Psalms 95:9As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my works.
1 Corinthians 10:6Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not covet evil things as they also coveted.
James 4:2You covet, and have not: you kill, and envy, and can not obtain. You contend and war, and you have not, because you 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 →