Psalms 78:56

But they tested and resisted God Most High, And, his testimonies, did not observe;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

55So he drave out, before them, [whole] nations, And allotted them, by line, an inheritance, And caused to dwell, in their own homes, the tribes of Israel.

57But drew back and dealt treacherously, like their fathers, They turned aside, like deceitful bowmen;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 31:16Then said Yahweh unto Moses, Lo! thou art about to sleep with thy fathers,—and this people will rise up, and go away unchastely after the gods of the foreigners of the land into the midst of whom they are entering, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I solemnised with them.

Judges 2:11So the sons of Israel did the thing that was wicked in the sight of Yahweh,—and served the Baals;

Nehemiah 9:25and they captured fortified cities and a fat soil, and took possession of houses full of every good thing, wells digged, vineyards and oliveyards and fruit-trees, in abundance,—so they did eat and were filled and became fat, and luxuriated in thy great goodness.

Psalms 78:40How often they, Resisted him in the desert, Vexed him, in the waste:

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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