Psalms 78:40

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • Eph 4:30 : 30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
  • Ps 95:8-9 : 8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, [and] as [in] the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. 10 Forty years long was I grieved with [this] generation, and said, It [is] a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
  • Isa 63:10 : 10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] he fought against them.
  • Ps 106:14-33 : 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. 16 They envied Moses also in the camp, [and] Aaron the saint of the LORD. 17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. 18 And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked. 19 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image. 20 Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass. 21 They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt; 22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, [and] terrible things by the Red sea. 23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy [them]. 24 Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word: 25 But murmured in their tents, [and] hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD. 26 Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness: 27 To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands. 28 They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. 29 Thus they provoked [him] to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them. 30 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and [so] the plague was stayed. 31 And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore. 32 They angered [him] also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes: 33 Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
  • Ps 107:11 : 11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
  • Isa 7:13 : 13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; [Is it] a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
  • Heb 3:15-17 : 15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. 16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. 17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it] not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
  • Num 14:11 : 11 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
  • Deut 9:21-22 : 21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, [and] ground [it] very small, [even] until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. 22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.
  • Ps 78:17 : 17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 78:17-20
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    84%

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

    18And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

    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 78:41-42
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    41Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

    42They remembered not his hand, [nor] the day when he delivered them from the enemy.

  • Heb 3:16-17
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    16For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

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

  • Ps 106:14
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    14But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

  • Ps 78:56
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    56Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

  • Heb 3:8-11
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    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.

    10Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in [their] heart; and they have not known my ways.

    11So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

  • Ps 106:43-44
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    43Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked [him] with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

    44Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:

  • Ps 78:38-39
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    38But he, [being] full of compassion, forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

    39For he remembered that they [were but] flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

  • Ps 95:8-10
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    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.

    10Forty years long was I grieved with [this] generation, and said, It [is] a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

  • Acts 13:18
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    18And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

  • Num 14:11
    75%

    11¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?

  • Ps 106:32-33
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    32They angered [him] also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:

    33Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.

  • Isa 63:10
    75%

    10But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] he fought against them.

  • 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.

  • Deut 9:22
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    22And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.

  • 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;

  • 1 Cor 10:5
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    5But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

  • Deut 32:16
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    16They provoked him to jealousy with strange [gods], with abominations provoked they him to anger.

  • Deut 9:7-8
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    7¶ Remember, [and] forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.

    8Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.

  • 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;

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

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

  • Ps 78:30-32
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    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 78:11
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    11And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.

  • Ps 106:24-26
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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.

    26Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:

  • Neh 9:26
    73%

    26Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

  • Jer 2:6
    73%

    6Neither said they, Where [is] the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

  • Neh 9:16
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    16But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

  • Exod 16:2
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    2And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:

  • Exod 17:2-3
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    72%

    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?

  • Num 32:13
    72%

    13And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.