Psalms 78:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Isa 63:10 : 10 But they rebelled, and grieved his Holy Spirit: therefore he turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
  • Heb 3:16-19 : 16 For some, when they heard, did provoke: yet not all who came out of Egypt by Moses. 17 But with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not believe? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
  • Deut 9:8 : 8 Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to destroy you.
  • Deut 9:12-22 : 12 And the LORD said to me, Arise, go down quickly from here; for your people which you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten image. 13 Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and, look, it is a stiff-necked people: 14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they. 15 So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire: and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. 16 And I looked, and, behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made for yourselves a molten calf: you had quickly turned aside out of the way which the LORD had commanded you. 17 And I took the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. 18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread nor drink water, because of all your sins which you sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which the LORD was angry against you to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me at that time also. 20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at that time. 21 And I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I threw the dust into the brook that came down from the mountain. 22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you provoked the LORD to wrath.
  • Ps 78:32 : 32 For all this they sinned still, and did not believe for his wondrous works.
  • 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 err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
  • Ps 106:13-32 : 13 They soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel. 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 also envied Moses 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 worshiped the molten image. 20 Thus they changed their glory into the likeness of an ox that eats grass. 21 They forgot God their savior, who had done great things in Egypt; 22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome 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 Yes, they despised the pleasant land, they did not believe his word. 25 But murmured in their tents, and did not listen to the voice of the LORD. 26 Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness. 27 To overthrow their descendants also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands. 28 They joined themselves also to Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. 29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions, and the plague broke out among them. 30 Then Phinehas stood up and executed judgment, and so the plague was stopped. 31 And that was accounted unto him for righteousness unto all generations forevermore. 32 They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went badly with Moses for their sakes;

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  • Ps 78:40-41
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    40How often did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

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

  • Ps 78:56
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    56Yet they tempted and provoked the Most High God, and did not keep his testimonies:

  • Ps 78:18-20
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    18And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their desire.

    19Yes, they spoke against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

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

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

  • Ps 78:30-32
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    30They were not estranged from their desire. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

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

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

  • Ps 78:15-16
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    15He split the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as from the great depths.

    16He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

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

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

    17But with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

  • Neh 9:18
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    18Even when they made a molten calf for themselves, and said, 'This is your God that brought you up out of Egypt,' and committed great provocations,

  • Deut 9:22
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    22And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you provoked the LORD to wrath.

  • Neh 9:26
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    26Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against You, cast Your law behind their backs, and killed Your prophets who testified against them, to turn them back to You, and they performed great provocations.

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    11Because they rebelled against the words of God, and despised the counsel of the Most High:

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

    33Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke rashly with his lips.

  • Ps 106:24-26
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    24Yes, they despised the pleasant land, they did not believe his word.

    25But murmured in their tents, and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.

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

  • Ps 106:29
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    29Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions, and the plague broke out among them.

  • Deut 9:7-8
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    7Remember, and do not forget, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you departed out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.

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

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

  • Neh 9:16
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    16But they and our forefathers acted proudly, hardened their necks, and did not heed Your commandments.

  • Heb 3:8-10
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    8Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, in the day of temptation in the wilderness,

    9When your fathers tested Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years.

    10Therefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They always go astray in their heart; and they have not known My ways.

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    11There they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations had done whom the LORD carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger.

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    43Many times he delivered them, but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

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    14For you rebelled against my command in the desert of Zin, during the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: this is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.

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

  • Ps 78:10-11
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    10They did not keep the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

    11And forgot his works, and his wonders that he had shown them.

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    2And the whole congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

  • Hos 4:7
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    7As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: therefore I will turn their glory into shame.

  • Num 14:22
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    22Because all those men who 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 listened to my voice;

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    40And they rose up early in the morning, and went up into the top of the mountain, saying, Here we are, and will go up to the place which the LORD has promised: for we have sinned.

  • Exod 17:2-3
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    2Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said to them, Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?

    3And the people were thirsty there for water; and the people grumbled against Moses, and said, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

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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.

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    18And for about forty years he cared for them in the wilderness.

  • 1 Kgs 14:22
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    22And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, more than all that their fathers had done.

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

  • Deut 1:26
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    26Nevertheless you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God: