Psalms 78:18
They tempted God in their hearts, By asking food for their delight.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
In Context
17Yet still they sinned against him, And provoked the Most High in the desert.
19Yea, they spake against God, and said, “Can God spread a table in the wilderness?
Cross References
Psalms 95:9Where your fathers tempted me And tried me, although they had seen my works.
1 Corinthians 10:6Now these things were warnings for us, in order that we should not lust after evil things, as they lusted.
James 4:2Ye lust, and have not; ye kill, and earnestly covet, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war. Ye have not, because ye 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 →