Psalms 78:57

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

Geneva Bible 1599

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 prouoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies,

58And they prouoked him to anger with their high places, and mooued him to wrath with their grauen images.

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Cross References

Judges 3:5And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hiuites, and the Iebusites,

Psalms 78:8And not to bee as their fathers, a disobedient and rebellious generation: a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirite was not faithfull vnto God.

Psalms 78:41Yea, they returned, and tempted God, and limited the Holie one of Israel.

Ezekiel 20:27Therefore, sonne of man, speake vnto the house of Israel, and say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God, Yet in this your fathers haue blasphemed me, though they had before grieuously transgressed 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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