Psalms 78:56

Yet they tried and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not His testimonies;

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

In Context

55He drove out the nations also before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

57But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers; they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 31:16And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Behold, thou art about to sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go astray after the foreign gods of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake Me, and break My covenant which I have made with them.

Judges 2:11And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Baalim.

Nehemiah 9:25And they took fortified cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns hewn out, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit-trees in abundance; so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and luxuriated in Thy great goodness.

Psalms 78:40How oft did they rebel against Him in the wilderness, and grieve Him in the desert!

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 →

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