Psalms 78:18
And they tried God in their heart by asking food for their craving.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
In Context
17Yet went they on still to sin against Him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
19Yea, they spoke against God; they said: 'Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
Cross References
Exodus 17:2Wherefore the people strove with Moses, and said: 'Give us water that we may drink.' And Moses said unto them: 'Why strive ye with me? wherefore do ye try the LORD?'
Numbers 11:4And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting; and the children of Israel also wept on their part, and said: 'Would that we were given flesh to eat!
Psalms 95:9When your fathers tried Me, proved Me, even though they saw My work.
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 →