Psalms 78:18

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They tested God in their hearts by demanding the food they craved.

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  • Num 11:4 : 4 The rabble among them began to crave other food, and the Israelites also started to weep again, saying, 'Who will give us meat to eat?
  • 1 Cor 10:9 : 9 We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and they were killed by snakes.
  • Jas 4:2-3 : 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
  • Exod 16:2-3 : 2 The entire assembly of the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. 3 The Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by the LORD's hand in the land of Egypt, where we sat by pots of meat and ate bread until we were full! But you brought us into this wilderness to kill this entire assembly with hunger."
  • Deut 6:16 : 16 Do not test the LORD your God as you did at Massah.
  • Ps 95:9 : 9 where your fathers tested Me; they tried Me, though they had seen My deeds.
  • Ps 106:14-15 : 14 In the wilderness, they craved intensely and tested God in the wasteland. 15 So He gave them what they asked for but sent leanness into their souls.
  • 1 Cor 10:6 : 6 Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not desire evil things as they did.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 78:28-32
    5 verses
    83%

    28 He made them fall inside their camp, all around their dwellings.

    29 They ate and were filled abundantly, for He gave them what they craved.

    30 But while the food was still in their mouths, they were not yet free of their craving.

    31 Then the anger of God rose against them, and He killed the strongest among them, striking down the young men of Israel.

    32 Despite all this, they kept on sinning and did not believe in His wondrous works.

  • Ps 106:14-15
    2 verses
    82%

    14 In the wilderness, they craved intensely and tested God in the wasteland.

    15 So He gave them what they asked for but sent leanness into their souls.

  • Ps 78:17
    81%

    17 But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling against the Most High in the dry wasteland.

  • Ps 78:19-20
    2 verses
    81%

    19 They spoke against God, saying, 'Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?'

    20 True, He struck the rock, and water gushed out, and streams overflowed. But can He also give us bread or provide meat for His people?

  • Ps 78:40-41
    2 verses
    78%

    40 How often they provoked Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the wasteland!

    41 Again and again they tested God and limited the Holy One of Israel.

  • Ps 78:56
    77%

    56 But they tested and rebelled against God Most High and did not keep His decrees.

  • Heb 3:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8 do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness,

    9 where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw my works.

  • Num 11:4
    73%

    4 The rabble among them began to crave other food, and the Israelites also started to weep again, saying, 'Who will give us meat to eat?

  • Ps 95:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8 do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,

    9 where your fathers tested Me; they tried Me, though they had seen My deeds.

  • Ps 105:40
    72%

    40 They asked, and he brought quail; he satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

  • Ps 78:24-25
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    72%

    24 He rained down manna for them to eat and gave them the grain of heaven.

    25 Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food to their fill.

  • Ps 107:18
    72%

    18 They loathed all food and drew near to the gates of death.

  • Deut 6:16
    71%

    16 Do not test the LORD your God as you did at Massah.

  • Neh 9:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15 You provided bread from heaven for their hunger and brought water out of a rock for their thirst. You told them to go in and take possession of the land You had sworn to give them.

    16 But they, our ancestors, acted arrogantly. They stiffened their necks and did not obey Your commandments.

  • Ps 107:5
    71%

    5 Hungry and thirsty, their souls grew faint within them.

  • Num 21:5
    71%

    5 The people spoke against God and Moses: 'Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, no water, and we detest this miserable food!'

  • Neh 9:18
    71%

    18 Even when they made a molten calf for themselves and said, 'This is your god who brought you out of Egypt,' and they committed terrible blasphemies,

  • Ps 106:29
    71%

    29 They provoked the LORD to anger by their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

  • Exod 16:3
    71%

    3 The Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by the LORD's hand in the land of Egypt, where we sat by pots of meat and ate bread until we were full! But you brought us into this wilderness to kill this entire assembly with hunger."

  • Ps 78:34
    71%

    34 When He killed them, they sought Him; they repented and earnestly sought God.

  • Hos 13:6
    70%

    6 As they were fed, they were satisfied; as they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and so they forgot me.

  • Ps 106:24-25
    2 verses
    70%

    24 But they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.

    25 They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.

  • Exod 17:2-3
    2 verses
    70%

    2 So the people quarreled with Moses, saying, "Give us water to drink." Moses replied to them, "Why are you quarreling with me? Why are you testing the LORD?"

    3 But the people were very thirsty for water there, and they complained against Moses, saying, "Why did you bring us out of Egypt to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"

  • Hos 4:8
    70%

    8 They feed on the sins of my people; they are greedy for their iniquity.

  • 1 Cor 10:9
    70%

    9 We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and they were killed by snakes.

  • Ps 78:58
    70%

    58 They angered Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their carved images.

  • Num 11:18
    70%

    18 Tell the people: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat. The LORD heard you when you wailed, ‘If only we had meat to eat! We were better off in Egypt!’ Now the LORD will give you meat to eat, and you will eat it.

  • Deut 8:16
    70%

    16 He fed you manna in the wilderness, which your fathers had never known, to humble and test you so that He might do good for you in the end.

  • Heb 3:17
    69%

    17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

  • Num 11:33-34
    2 verses
    69%

    33 But while the meat was still between their teeth and before it was consumed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and He struck them with a severe plague.

    34 So they named that place Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved meat.

  • Deut 9:22
    69%

    22 You continued to provoke the LORD to anger at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah.

  • Isa 8:21
    69%

    21 Distressed and hungry, they will roam through the land; when they are famished, they will become enraged, and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.

  • Deut 32:16
    69%

    16 They made Him jealous with strange gods and provoked Him to anger with detestable practices.

  • 1 Cor 10:6
    69%

    6 Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not desire evil things as they did.

  • Num 11:22
    69%

    22 Would they have enough if flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? Or if all the fish in the sea were gathered for them, would that be enough?'

  • Num 14:22
    69%

    22 none of those who saw my glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, but who disobeyed me and tested me ten times,