Psalms 78:18
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
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- 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.
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28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
30 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
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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.
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17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
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19 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
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40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
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8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
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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?
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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.
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40 The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
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24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
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16 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
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15 And 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.
16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and harded their cks, and hearked not to thy commandments,
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5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
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5 And 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.
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18 Yea, 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;
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29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
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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.
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6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
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24 Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
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8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
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9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
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58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
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18 And 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.
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16 Who fed thee in the wilrness 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;
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33 And 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.
34 And he called the name of that place Kibroth-hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.
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22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.
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21 And 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.
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16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
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6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
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22 Shall 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?
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22 Because 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;