Psalms 106:43
Many times Yahweh rescued them, but they continued to rebel against him, and they were finally destroyed because of the sins that they committed.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
42Their enemies ◄oppressed them/treated them cruelly► and completely controlled them [MET].
Cross References
Judges 2:16Then Yahweh gave leaders to them. These leaders rescued the Israelis from the people who were raiding them.
Judges 6:5They came into Israel with their tents and their livestock like a swarm of locusts. There were so many of them that arrived riding on their camels that no one could count them. They stayed and ruined the Israelis’ crops.
Judges 10:12and the Sidon and Amalek and Maon people-groups were cruel to you, you cried out to me, and then I rescued you.
1 Samuel 13:19At that time, there were no men in Israel who ◄were blacksmiths/could make things from iron►. The people of Philistia would not permit the Israelis to do that, because they were afraid that they would make iron swords and spears for the Hebrews to fight with.
Psalms 81:12So even though they were very stubborn, I allowed them to do whatever they wanted to do.
Psalms 107:11They were in prison because they had ◄rebelled against/not obeyed► the message of God; they were there because they had despised the advice given by God, who is greater than all other gods.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 106:35-48
Provocation of Israel in the Wilderness; The Divine Compassion. 34 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the Lord commanded them: 35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works. 36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them. 37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, 38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood. 39 Thus were they… Read the whole commentary →