Psalms 78:18
And they tempted God in their heart by asking food for their lust.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
In Context
17And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
19Yea, they spoke against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
Cross References
Exodus 17:2Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide all of you with me? wherefore do all of you tempt the LORD?
Numbers 11:4And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
Psalms 95:9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
1 Corinthians 10:6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
James 4:2All of you lust, and have not: all of you kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: all of you fight and war, yet all of you have not, because all of you ask 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 →