Psalm 78:18
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And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.
In other translations
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.
Hebrew words
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- 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?Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?
- Deuteronomy 6:16Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.
- 1 Corinthians 10:9Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.
- Psalm 106:14-1514 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. 15 And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.14 They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert. 15 So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them.
- 1 Corinthians 10:6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.
- Psalm 95:9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
- James 4:2-32 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.2 You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3 And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
- Exodus 16:2-32 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: 3 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.2 And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron. 3 “If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”
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