Psalms 78:17
Yet they still went on sinning against him, they defied the Most High in the desert.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
In Context
16He brought streams out of the rock, and made water run down like rivers.
18They willfully challenged God, demanding the food that they longed for.
Cross References
Psalms 95:8“Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, or at Massah, that day in the desert,
Hebrews 3:16Who were they who heard God speak and yet provoked him? Were not they all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?
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 →