Psalms 78:18
They willfully challenged God, demanding the food that they longed for.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
In Context
17Yet they still went on sinning against him, they defied the Most High in the desert.
19“Is God able,” such was their challenge, “to spread in the desert a table?
Cross References
Psalms 95:9when your ancestors tempted and tried me, though they had seen my deeds.
1 Corinthians 10:6Now these things happened as warnings to us, to teach us not to long for evil things as our ancestors longed.
James 4:2You crave, yet do not have, so you commit murder, so You covet, yet cannot gain your end. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.
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 →