Psalms 78:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 11:4 : 4 Complaints about Food Now the mixed multitude who were among them craved more desirable foods, and so the Israelites wept again and said,“If only we had meat to eat!
  • 1 Cor 10:9 : 9 And let us not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.
  • Jas 4:2-3 : 2 You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask; 3 you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.
  • Exod 16:2-3 : 2 The entire company of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. 3 The Israelites 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, 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 Exhortation to Obey the Lord Exclusively You must not put the LORD your God to the test as you did at Massah.
  • Ps 95:9 : 9 where your ancestors challenged my authority, and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.
  • Ps 106:14-15 : 14 In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving for meat; they challenged God in the wastelands. 15 He granted their request, then struck them with a disease.
  • 1 Cor 10:6 : 6 These things happened as examples for us, so that we will not crave evil things as they did.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 78:28-32
    5 verses
    83%

    28He caused them to fall right in the middle of their camp, all around their homes.

    29They ate until they were beyond full; he gave them what they desired.

    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 106:14-15
    2 verses
    82%

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

    15He granted their request, then struck them with a disease.

  • Ps 78:17
    81%

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

  • Ps 78:19-20
    2 verses
    81%

    19They insulted God, saying,“Is God really able to give us food in the wilderness?

    20Yes, he struck a rock and water flowed out, streams gushed forth. But can he also give us food? Will he provide meat for his people?”

  • Ps 78:40-41
    2 verses
    78%

    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 78:56
    77%

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

  • Heb 3:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8“Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.

    9“There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.

  • Num 11:4
    73%

    4Complaints about Food Now the mixed multitude who were among them craved more desirable foods, and so the Israelites wept again and said,“If only we had meat to eat!

  • Ps 95:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8He says,“Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,

    9where your ancestors challenged my authority, and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.

  • Ps 105:40
    72%

    40They asked for food, and he sent quails; he satisfied them with food from the sky.

  • Ps 78:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24He rained down manna for them to eat; he gave them the grain of heaven.

    25Man ate the food of the mighty ones. He sent them more than enough to eat.

  • Ps 107:18
    72%

    18They lost their appetite for all food, and they drew near the gates of death.

  • Deut 6:16
    71%

    16Exhortation to Obey the Lord Exclusively You must not put the LORD your God to the test as you did at Massah.

  • Neh 9:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.

    16“But they– our ancestors– behaved presumptuously; they rebelled and did not obey your commandments.

  • Ps 107:5
    71%

    5They were hungry and thirsty; they fainted from exhaustion.

  • Num 21:5
    71%

    5And the people spoke against God and against Moses,“Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we detest this worthless food.”

  • Neh 9:18
    71%

    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 106:29
    71%

    29They made the LORD angry by their actions, and a plague broke out among them.

  • Exod 16:3
    71%

    3The Israelites 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, 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 struck them down, they sought his favor; they turned back and longed for God.

  • Hos 13:6
    70%

    6When they were fed, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, they became proud; as a result, they forgot me!

  • Ps 106:24-25
    2 verses
    70%

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

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

  • Exod 17:2-3
    2 verses
    70%

    2So the people contended with Moses, and they said,“Give us water to drink!” Moses said to them,“Why do you contend with me? Why do you test the LORD?”

    3But the people were very thirsty there for water, and they murmured against Moses and said,“Why in the world did you bring us up from Egypt– to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”

  • Hos 4:8
    70%

    8They feed on the sin offerings of my people; their appetites long for their iniquity!

  • 1 Cor 10:9
    70%

    9And let us not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.

  • Ps 78:58
    70%

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

  • Num 11:18
    70%

    18“And say to the people,‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying,“Who will give us meat to eat, for life was good for us in Egypt?” Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.

  • Deut 8:16
    70%

    16fed you in the wilderness with manna(which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.

  • 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?

  • Num 11:33-34
    2 verses
    69%

    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.

    34So the name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people that craved different food.

  • Deut 9:22
    69%

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

  • Isa 8:21
    69%

    21They will pass through the land destitute and starving. Their hunger will make them angry, and they will curse their king and their God as they look upward.

  • Deut 32:16
    69%

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

  • 1 Cor 10:6
    69%

    6These things happened as examples for us, so that we will not crave evil things as they did.

  • Num 11:22
    69%

    22Would they have enough if the flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? If all the fish of the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?”

  • Num 14:22
    69%

    22For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me,