Psalms 78:18

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 11:4 : 4 ¶ And 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?
  • 1 Cor 10:9 : 9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
  • Jas 4:2-3 : 2 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.
  • Exod 16:2-3 : 2 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.
  • Deut 6:16 : 16 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted [him] in Massah.
  • Ps 95:9 : 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
  • Ps 106:14-15 : 14 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.
  • 1 Cor 10:6 : 6 ¶ Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 78:28-32
    5 verses
    83%

    28And he let [it] fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.

    29So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;

    30They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat [was] yet in their mouths,

    31The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen [men] of Israel.

    32For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.

  • Ps 106:14-15
    2 verses
    82%

    14But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

    15And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.

  • Ps 78:17
    81%

    17And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.

  • Ps 78:19-20
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    81%

    19Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

    20Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?

  • Ps 78:40-41
    2 verses
    78%

    40¶ How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, [and] grieve him in the desert!

    41Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

  • Ps 78:56
    77%

    56Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

  • Heb 3:8-9
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    74%

    8Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

    9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

  • Num 11:4
    73%

    4¶ And 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?

  • Ps 95:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, [and] as [in] the day of temptation in the wilderness:

    9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

  • Ps 105:40
    72%

    40[The people] asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

  • Ps 78:24-25
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    72%

    24And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.

    25Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.

  • Ps 107:18
    72%

    18Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.

  • Deut 6:16
    71%

    16Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted [him] in Massah.

  • Neh 9:15-16
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    71%

    15And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.

    16But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

  • Ps 107:5
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    5Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

  • Num 21:5
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    5And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for [there is] no bread, neither [is there any] water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

  • Neh 9:18
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    18Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This [is] thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;

  • Ps 106:29
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    29Thus they provoked [him] to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.

  • Exod 16:3
    71%

    3And 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.

  • Ps 78:34
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    34When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.

  • Hos 13:6
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    6According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.

  • Ps 106:24-25
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    24Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:

    25But murmured in their tents, [and] hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.

  • Exod 17:2-3
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    70%

    2Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?

    3And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore [is] this [that] thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

  • Hos 4:8
    70%

    8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

  • 1 Cor 10:9
    70%

    9Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

  • Ps 78:58
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    58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

  • Num 11:18
    70%

    18And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for [it was] well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.

  • Deut 8:16
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    16Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

  • Heb 3:17
    69%

    17But with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it] not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

  • Num 11:33-34
    2 verses
    69%

    33And while the flesh [was] yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.

    34And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.

  • Deut 9:22
    69%

    22And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.

  • Isa 8:21
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    21And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

  • Deut 32:16
    69%

    16They provoked him to jealousy with strange [gods], with abominations provoked they him to anger.

  • 1 Cor 10:6
    69%

    6¶ Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

  • Num 11:22
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    22Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?

  • Num 14:22
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    22Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;