Psalms 78:56
Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God: and they kept not his testimonies.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
In Context
55And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 31:16And the Lord said to Moses: Behold thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people rising up will go a fornicating after strange gods in the land, to which it goeth in to dwell: there will they forsake me, and will make void the covenant, which I have made with them,
Judges 2:11And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they served Baalim.
Nehemiah 9:25And they took strong cities and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods: cisterns made by others, vine- yards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: and they ate, and were filled, and became fat, and abounded with de- light in thy great goodness.
Psalms 78:40How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water?
Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:41-72
Judgments and Mercies; Wonders Wrought for Israel; Renewed Mercies 40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! 41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. 42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. 43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: 44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. 45 He sent divers sorts of flies among… Read the whole commentary →