Psalms 78:18
And tempted God in their heartes in requiring meate for their lust.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
In Context
17Yet they sinned stil against him, and prouoked the Highest in the wildernesse,
19They spake against God also, saying, Can God prepare a table in the wildernesse?
Cross References
Exodus 17:2Wherefore the people contended with Moses, and sayde, Giue vs water that we may drinke. And Moses sayde vnto them, Why contende yee with me? wherefore do ye tempt the Lord?
Numbers 11:4And a nomber of people that was amog them, fell a lusting, and turned away, and the children of Israel also wept, and saide, Who shall giue vs flesh to eate?
Psalms 95:9Where your fathers tempted me, proued me, though they had seene my worke.
1 Corinthians 10:6Nowe these things are our ensamples, to the intent that we should not lust after euil things as they also lusted.
James 4:2Ye lust, and haue not: ye enuie, and desire immoderately, and cannot obtaine: ye fight and warre, and get nothing, because ye aske 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 →