Psalms 106:29

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They made the LORD angry by their actions, and a plague broke out among them.

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 25:9 : 9 Those that died in the plague were 24,000.
  • Deut 32:16-21 : 16 They made him jealous with other gods, they enraged him with abhorrent idols. 17 They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods they had not known; to new gods who had recently come along, gods your ancestors had not known about. 18 You have forgotten the Rock who fathered you, and put out of mind the God who gave you birth. 19 A Word of Judgment But the LORD took note and despised them because his sons and daughters enraged him. 20 He said,“I will reject them, I will see what will happen to them; for they are a perverse generation, children who show no loyalty. 21 They have made me jealous with false gods, enraging me with their worthless gods; so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.
  • Ps 99:8 : 8 O LORD our God, you answered them. They found you to be a forgiving God, but also one who punished their sinful deeds.
  • Ps 106:39 : 39 They were defiled by their deeds, and unfaithful in their actions.
  • Eccl 7:29 : 29 This alone have I discovered: God made humankind upright, but they have sought many evil schemes.
  • Rom 1:21-24 : 21 For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.
  • 1 Cor 10:8 : 8 And let us not be immoral, as some of them were, and twenty-three thousand died in a single day.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 106:35-40
    6 verses
    80%

    35They mixed in with the nations and learned their ways.

    36They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.

    37They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.

    38They shed innocent blood– the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted by bloodshed.

    39They were defiled by their deeds, and unfaithful in their actions.

    40So the LORD was angry with his people and despised the people who belong to him.

  • Ps 106:30
    77%

    30Phinehas took a stand and intervened, and the plague subsided.

  • Ps 106:23-28
    6 verses
    77%

    23He threatened to destroy them, but Moses, his chosen one, interceded with him and turned back his destructive anger.

    24They rejected the fruitful land; they did not believe his promise.

    25They grumbled in their tents; they did not obey the LORD.

    26So he made a solemn vow that he would make them die in the wilderness,

    27make their descendants die among the nations, and scatter them among foreign lands.

    28They worshiped Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

  • Ps 106:32-33
    2 verses
    77%

    32They made him angry by the waters of Meribah, and Moses suffered because of them,

    33for they aroused his temper, and he spoke rashly.

  • Deut 32:16
    76%

    16They made him jealous with other gods, they enraged him with abhorrent idols.

  • Num 31:16
    76%

    16Look, these people through the counsel of Balaam caused the Israelites to act treacherously against the LORD in the matter of Peor– which resulted in the plague among the community of the LORD!

  • Ps 78:58-59
    2 verses
    76%

    58They made him angry with their pagan shrines, and made him jealous with their idols.

    59God heard and was angry; he completely rejected Israel.

  • Num 11:33
    75%

    33But while the meat was still between their teeth, before they chewed it, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.

  • Ps 78:49-50
    2 verses
    74%

    49His raging anger lashed out against them, He sent fury, rage, and trouble as messengers who bring disaster.

    50He sent his anger in full force; he did not spare them from death; he handed their lives over to destruction.

  • Num 25:3
    74%

    3When Israel joined themselves to Baal-peor, the anger of the LORD flared up against Israel.

  • Num 25:18
    74%

    18because they bring trouble to you by their treachery with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague that happened as a result of Peor.”

  • Ps 106:14
    74%

    14In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving for meat; they challenged God in the wastelands.

  • Ps 78:30-32
    3 verses
    74%

    30They were not yet filled up, their food was still in their mouths,

    31when the anger of God flared up against them. He killed some of the strongest of them; he brought the young men of Israel to their knees.

    32Despite all this, they continued to sin, and did not trust him to do amazing things.

  • Ps 78:56
    74%

    56Yet they challenged and defied God Most High, and did not obey his commands.

  • Neh 9:18
    74%

    18even when they made a cast image of a calf for themselves and said,‘This is your God who brought you up from Egypt,’ or when they committed atrocious blasphemies.

  • Ps 78:40-41
    2 verses
    74%

    40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and insulted him in the wastelands!

    41They again challenged God, and offended the Holy One of Israel.

  • Ps 106:43
    73%

    43Many times he delivered them, but they had a rebellious attitude, and degraded themselves by their sin.

  • Ps 78:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17Yet they continued to sin against him, and rebelled against the Most High in the desert.

    18They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.

  • Deut 9:22
    73%

    22Moreover, you continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.

  • Ps 106:18-20
    3 verses
    73%

    18Fire burned their group; the flames scorched the wicked.

    19They made an image of a calf at Horeb, and worshiped a metal idol.

    20They traded their majestic God for the image of an ox that eats grass.

  • Exod 32:35
    72%

    35And the LORD sent a plague on the people because they had made the calf– the one Aaron made.

  • Neh 9:26
    72%

    26“Nonetheless they grew disobedient and rebelled against you; they disregarded your law. They killed your prophets who had solemnly admonished them in order to cause them to return to you. They committed atrocious blasphemies.

  • 2 Kgs 17:17
    71%

    17They passed their sons and daughters through the fire, and practiced divination and omen reading. They committed themselves to doing evil in the sight of the LORD and made him angry.

  • 2 Kgs 17:11
    71%

    11They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the LORD had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the LORD angry.

  • Ps 105:29
    71%

    29He turned their water into blood, and killed their fish.

  • Deut 9:8
    71%

    8At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.

  • Num 25:8
    70%

    8and went after the Israelite man into the tent and thrust through the Israelite man and into the woman’s abdomen. So the plague was stopped from the Israelites.

  • Deut 29:27
    70%

    27That is why the LORD’s anger erupted against this land, bringing on it all the curses written in this scroll.

  • Ps 106:16
    70%

    16In the camp they resented Moses, and Aaron, the LORD’s holy priest.

  • Heb 3:17
    69%

    17And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?