Psalms 78:17
But again, once more sinned they against him, Resisting the Most High in a land of drought:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
In Context
16And he brought forth streams out of the cliff, And caused waters to flow down, like rivers.
18They put GOD to the proof in their heart, By asking food to their mind:
Cross References
Deuteronomy 9:8Even in Horeb, ye provoked Yahweh to wrath,—so that Yahweh showed himself angry with you to destroy you.
Deuteronomy 31:27For, I, know thy perverseness, and thy stiff neck,—lo! while I am yet alive with you to-day, ye are, quarrelling, with Yahweh, and how much more after my death?
Psalms 95:8Do not harden your heart as at Meribah, As on the day of Massah, in the desert;
Isaiah 63:10But, they, rebelled, and grieved his Holy Spirit,—And so he turned against them as an enemy, he himself, fought against them.
Hebrews 3:16For, who, though they heard, caused embitterment? Nay, indeed! did not all who come forth out of Egypt through Moses?
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 →