Psalms 78:56

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;

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  • Judg 2:11-12 : 11 And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord and became servants to the Baals; 12 And they gave up the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had taken them out of the land of Egypt, and went after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about them, worshipping them and moving the Lord to wrath.
  • 2 Kgs 17:7-9 : 7 And the wrath of the Lord came on Israel because they had done evil against the Lord their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt from under the yoke of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and had become worshippers of other gods, 8 Living by the rules of the nations whom the Lord had sent out from before the children of Israel. 9 And the children of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things which were not right, building high places for themselves in all their towns, from the tower of the watchmen to the walled town. 10 They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree: 11 Burning their offerings in all the high places, as those nations did whom the Lord sent away from before them; they did evil things, moving the Lord to wrath; 12 And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this. 13 And he gave witness to Israel and Judah, by every prophet and seer, saying, Come back from your evil ways, and do my orders and keep my rules, and be guided by the law which I gave to your fathers and sent to you by my servants the prophets. 14 And they did not give ear, but became stiff-necked, like their fathers who had no faith in the Lord their God. 15 And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do. 16 And turning their backs on all the orders which the Lord had given them, they made for themselves images of metal, and the image of Asherah, worshipping all the stars of heaven and becoming servants to Baal. 17 And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath. 18 So the Lord was very angry with Israel, and his face was turned away from them: only the tribe of Judah kept its place. 19 (But even Judah did not keep the orders of the Lord their God, but were guided by the rules which Israel had made. 20 So the Lord would have nothing to do with all the offspring of Israel, and sent trouble on them, and gave them up into the hands of their attackers, till he had sent them away from before his face.) 21 For Israel was broken off from the family of David, and they made Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, king, who, driving them away from the laws of the Lord, made them do a great sin. 22 And the children of Israel went on with all the sins which Jeroboam did; they did not keep themselves from them; 23 Till the Lord put Israel away from before his face, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was taken away from their land to Assyria, to this day.
  • Neh 9:25-26 : 25 And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them. 26 But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.
  • Ps 78:40-41 : 40 How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places! 41 Again they put God to the test, and gave pain to the Holy One of Israel.
  • Ezek 16:15-26 : 15 But you put your faith in the fact that you were beautiful, acting like a loose woman because you were widely talked of, and offering your cheap love to everyone who went by, whoever it might be. 16 And you took your robes and made high places for yourself ornamented with every colour, acting like a loose woman on them, without shame or fear. 17 And you took the fair jewels, my silver and gold which I had given to you, and made for yourself male images, acting like a loose woman with them; 18 And you took your robes of needlework for their clothing, and put my oil and my perfume before them. 19 And my bread which I gave you, the best meal and oil and honey which I gave you for your food, you put it before them for a sweet smell, says the Lord. 20 And you took your sons and your daughters whom I had by you, offering even these to them to be their food. Was your loose behaviour so small a thing, 21 That you put my children to death and gave them up to go through the fire to them? 22 And in all your disgusting and false behaviour you had no memory of your early days, when you were uncovered and without clothing, stretched out in your blood. 23 And it came about, after all your evil-doing, says the Lord, 24 That you made for yourself an arched room in every open place. 25 You put up your high places at the top of every street, and made the grace of your form a disgusting thing, opening your feet to everyone who went by, increasing your loose ways. 26 And you went with the Egyptians, your neighbours, great of flesh; increasing your loose ways, moving me to wrath.
  • Deut 31:16-20 : 16 And the Lord said to Moses, Now you are going to rest with your fathers; and this people will be false to me, uniting themselves to the strange gods of the land where they are going; they will be turned away from me and will not keep the agreement I have made with them. 17 In that day my wrath will be moved against them, and I will be turned away from them, veiling my face from them, and destruction will overtake them, and unnumbered evils and troubles will come on them; so that in that day they will say, Have not these evils come on us because our God is not with us? 18 Truly, my face will be turned away from them in that day, because of all the evil they have done in going after other gods. 19 Make then this song for yourselves, teaching it to the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, so that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. 20 For when I have taken them into the land named in my oath to their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, and they have made themselves full of food and are fat, then they will be turned to other gods and will give them worship, no longer honouring me or keeping my agreement.
  • Deut 32:15-21 : 15 But Jeshurun became fat and would not be controlled: you have become fat, you are thick and full of food: then he was untrue to the God who made him, giving no honour to the Rock of his salvation. 16 The honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he was moved to wrath. 17 They made offerings to evil spirits which were not God, to gods who were strange to them, which had newly come up, not feared by your fathers. 18 You have no thought for the Rock, your father, you have no memory of the God who gave you birth. 19 And the Lord saw with disgust the evil-doing of his sons and daughters. 20 And he said, My face will be veiled from them, I will see what their end will be: for they are an uncontrolled generation, children in whom is no faith. 21 They have given my honour to that which is not God, moving me to wrath with their false worship: I will give their honour to those who are not a people, moving them to wrath by a foolish nation,

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    17And they went on sinning against him even more, turning away from the Most High in the waste land;

    18Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire.

    19They said bitter words against God, saying, Is God able to make ready a table in the waste land?

  • Ps 78:40-42
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    40How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!

    41Again they put God to the test, and gave pain to the Holy One of Israel.

    42They did not keep in mind the work of his hand, or the day when he took them from the power of their haters;

  • Ps 78:10-11
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    10They were not ruled by God's word, and they would not go in the way of his law;

    11They let his works go out of their memory, and the wonders which he had made them see.

  • Neh 9:26
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    26But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.

  • Ps 78:57-58
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    57Their hearts were turned back and untrue like their fathers; they were turned to one side like a twisted bow.

    58They made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images.

  • Ps 106:13-14
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    13But their memory of his works was short; not waiting to be guided by him,

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  • Ps 106:24-26
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    24They were disgusted with the good land; they had no belief in his word;

    25Talking against him secretly in their tents, they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord.

    26So he made an oath against them, to put an end to them in the waste land:

  • Neh 9:16-18
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    16But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,

    17And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.

    18Even when they had made for themselves an ox of metal, and said, This is your God who took you up out of Egypt, and had done so much to make you angry;

  • Ps 78:32
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    32For all this they went on sinning even more, and had no faith in his great wonders.

  • Deut 32:16
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    16The honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he was moved to wrath.

  • Ps 106:43
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    43Again and again he made them free; but their hearts were turned against his purpose, and they were overcome by their sins.

  • Ps 107:11
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    11Because they went against the words of God, and gave no thought to the laws of the Most High:

  • Ps 106:29
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    29So they made him angry by their behaviour; and he sent disease on them.

  • Ps 78:7-8
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    7So that they might put their hope in God, and not let God's works go out of their minds, but keep his laws;

    8And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.

  • Deut 1:26
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    26But going against the order of the Lord your God, you would not go up:

  • Ps 78:30
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    30But they were not turned from their desires; and while the food was still in their mouths,

  • Ps 106:32-33
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    32They made God angry again at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled because of them;

    33For they made his spirit bitter, and he said unwise things.

  • Heb 3:9
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    9When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.

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    36But their lips were false to him, and their tongues were untrue to him;

    37And their hearts were not right with him, and they did not keep their agreement with him.

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    9When your fathers put me to the test and saw my power and my work.

  • Num 14:22-23
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    22Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;

    23They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.

  • 2 Kgs 17:14-15
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    14And they did not give ear, but became stiff-necked, like their fathers who had no faith in the Lord their God.

    15And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do.

  • Neh 9:29-30
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    29And gave witness against them so that you might make them come back again to your law: but their hearts were lifted up, and they gave no attention to your orders and went against your decisions (which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him), and turning their backs on you, made their necks stiff and did not give ear.

    30Year after year you put up with them, and gave witness against them by your spirit through your prophets: still they did not give ear: and so you gave them up into the hands of the peoples of the lands.

  • Deut 6:16
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    16Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did in Massah.

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    22Again at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you made the Lord angry.

    23And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and take the land which I have given you; you went against the orders of the Lord your God, and had no faith in him, and would not give ear to his voice.

  • Ps 78:55
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    55Driving out nations before them, marking out the line of their heritage, and giving the people of Israel their tents for a resting-place.

  • Judg 2:12
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    12And they gave up the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had taken them out of the land of Egypt, and went after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about them, worshipping them and moving the Lord to wrath.

  • Heb 3:16
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    16Who made him angry when his voice came to them? was it not all those who came out of Egypt with Moses?

  • 2 Kgs 17:40
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    40But they gave no attention, but went on in their old way.

  • Judg 2:17
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    17But still they would not give ear to their judges, but went after other gods and gave them worship; quickly turning from the way in which their fathers had gone, keeping the orders of the Lord; but they did not do so.

  • Job 34:27
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    27Because they did not go after him, and took no note of his ways,

  • Deut 9:8
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    8Again in Horeb you made the Lord angry, and in his wrath he would have put an end to you.