Psalms 78:56

Yet they tempted, and prouoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies,

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

In Context

55He cast out the heathe also before them, and caused them to fall to the lot of his inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.

57But turned backe and delt falsely like their fathers: they turned like a deceitfull bowe.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 31:16And the Lord said vnto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleepe with thy fathers, and this people will rise vp, and goe a whoring after the gods of a strange land (whither they goe to dwell therein) and will forsake me, and breake my couenant which I haue made with them.

Judges 2:11Then the children of Israel did wickedly in the sight of the Lord, and serued Baalim,

Nehemiah 9:25And they tooke their strong cities and the fat lande, and possessed houses, full of all goods, cisternes digged out, vineyardes, and oliues, and trees for foode in abundance, and they did eate, and were filled, and became fat, and liued in pleasure through thy great goodnesse.

Psalms 78:40How oft did they prouoke him in the wildernes? and grieue him in the desert?

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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