Psalms 78:57

but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were twisted like a deceitful bow.

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In The King James Version

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

In Context

56Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies,

58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.

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Cross References

Judges 3:5The children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Psalms 78:8and might not be as their fathers— a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Psalms 78:41They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Ezekiel 20:27“Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Moreover, in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.

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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