Psalms 78:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Num 11:4 : 4 And the mixed multitude that was among them fell to lusting, and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us meat to eat?
  • 1 Cor 10:9 : 9 Do not tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by snakes.
  • Jas 4:2-3 : 2 You desire and do not have; you kill, and covet, and cannot obtain. You fight and war, yet you do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, that you may spend it on your desires.
  • Exod 16:2-3 : 2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. 3 And the children of Israel said to them, If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, and when we ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
  • Deut 6:16 : 16 You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you 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, so we should not desire evil things, as they also desired.

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, all around their habitations.

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

    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 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%

    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 78:40-41
    2 verses
    78%

    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
    77%

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

  • Heb 3:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

  • Num 11:4
    73%

    4And the mixed multitude that was among them fell to lusting, and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us meat 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%

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

  • Ps 78:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

  • Ps 107:18
    72%

    18Their soul abhors all manner of food; and they draw near to the gates of death.

  • Deut 6:16
    71%

    16You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

  • Neh 9:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger, and brought forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promised them that they would go in to possess the land which You had sworn to give them.

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

  • Ps 107:5
    71%

    5Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

  • Num 21:5
    71%

    5And the people spoke against God and against Moses, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loathes this light bread.

  • Neh 9:18
    71%

    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,

  • Ps 106:29
    71%

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

  • Exod 16:3
    71%

    3And the children of Israel said to them, If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, and when we ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

  • Ps 78:34
    71%

    34When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and sought diligently after God.

  • Hos 13:6
    70%

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

  • Ps 106:24-25
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

  • Exod 17:2-3
    2 verses
    70%

    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?

  • Hos 4:8
    70%

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

  • 1 Cor 10:9
    70%

    9Do not tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by snakes.

  • Ps 78:58
    70%

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

  • Num 11:18
    70%

    18And say to the people, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us meat to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt; therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat.

  • Deut 8:16
    70%

    16Who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that he might humble you, and that he might test you, to do you good at your latter end;

  • Heb 3:17
    69%

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

  • Num 11:33-34
    2 verses
    69%

    33And while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.

    34And he called the name of that place Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people that lusted.

  • Deut 9:22
    69%

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

  • Isa 8:21
    69%

    21And they shall pass through it, hard-pressed 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 foreign gods, with abominations they provoked him to anger.

  • 1 Cor 10:6
    69%

    6Now these things were our examples, so we should not desire evil things, as they also desired.

  • Num 11:22
    69%

    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
    69%

    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;