Psalms 78:40

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Eph 4:30 : 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
  • Ps 95:8-9 : 8 He says,“Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness, 9 where your ancestors challenged my authority, and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work. 10 For forty years I was continually disgusted with that generation, and I said,‘These people desire to go astray; they do not obey my commands.’
  • Isa 63:10 : 10 But they rebelled and offended his holy Spirit, so he turned into an enemy and fought against them.
  • Ps 106:14-33 : 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. 16 In the camp they resented Moses, and Aaron, the LORD’s holy priest. 17 The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it engulfed the group led by Abiram. 18 Fire burned their group; the flames scorched the wicked. 19 They made an image of a calf at Horeb, and worshiped a metal idol. 20 They traded their majestic God for the image of an ox that eats grass. 21 They rejected the God who delivered them, the one who performed great deeds in Egypt, 22 amazing feats in the land of Ham, mighty acts by the Red Sea. 23 He threatened to destroy them, but Moses, his chosen one, interceded with him and turned back his destructive anger. 24 They rejected the fruitful land; they did not believe his promise. 25 They grumbled in their tents; they did not obey the LORD. 26 So he made a solemn vow that he would make them die in the wilderness, 27 make their descendants die among the nations, and scatter them among foreign lands. 28 They worshiped Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead. 29 They made the LORD angry by their actions, and a plague broke out among them. 30 Phinehas took a stand and intervened, and the plague subsided. 31 This was credited to him as a righteous act for all generations to come. 32 They made him angry by the waters of Meribah, and Moses suffered because of them, 33 for they aroused his temper, and he spoke rashly.
  • Ps 107:11 : 11 because they had rebelled against God’s commands, and rejected the instructions of the Most High.
  • Isa 7:13 : 13 So Isaiah replied,“Pay attention, family of David. Do you consider it too insignificant to try the patience of men? Is that why you are also trying the patience of my God?
  • Heb 3:15-17 : 15 As it says,“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” 16 For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership? 17 And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?
  • Num 14:11 : 11 The Punishment from God The LORD said to Moses,“How long will this people despise me, and how long will they not believe in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them?
  • Deut 9:21-22 : 21 As for your sinful thing that you had made, the calf, I took it, melted it down, ground it up until it was as fine as dust, and tossed the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain. 22 Moreover, you continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.
  • Ps 78:17 : 17 Yet they continued to sin against him, and rebelled against the Most High in the desert.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 78:17-20
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    84%

    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.

    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 78:41-42
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    41They again challenged God, and offended the Holy One of Israel.

    42They did not remember what he had done, how he delivered them from the enemy,

  • Heb 3:16-17
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    16For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership?

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

  • Ps 106:14
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    14In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving for meat; they challenged God in the wastelands.

  • Ps 78:56
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    56Yet they challenged and defied God Most High, and did not obey his commands.

  • Heb 3:8-11
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    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.

    10“Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said,‘Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.’

    11“As I swore in my anger,‘They will never enter my rest!’”

  • Ps 106:43-44
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    43Many times he delivered them, but they had a rebellious attitude, and degraded themselves by their sin.

    44Yet he took notice of their distress, when he heard their cry for help.

  • Ps 78:38-39
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    38Yet he is compassionate. He forgives sin and does not destroy. He often holds back his anger, and does not stir up his fury.

    39He remembered that they were made of flesh, and were like a wind that blows past and does not return.

  • Ps 95:8-10
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    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.

    10For forty years I was continually disgusted with that generation, and I said,‘These people desire to go astray; they do not obey my commands.’

  • Acts 13:18
    77%

    18For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

  • Num 14:11
    75%

    11The Punishment from God The LORD said to Moses,“How long will this people despise me, and how long will they not believe in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them?

  • Ps 106:32-33
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    32They made him angry by the waters of Meribah, and Moses suffered because of them,

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

  • Isa 63:10
    75%

    10But they rebelled and offended his holy Spirit, so he turned into an enemy and fought against them.

  • Ps 78:58
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    58They made him angry with their pagan shrines, and made him jealous with their idols.

  • Deut 9:22
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    22Moreover, you continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.

  • Neh 9:18
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    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.

  • 1 Cor 10:5
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    5But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.

  • Deut 32:16
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    16They made him jealous with other gods, they enraged him with abhorrent idols.

  • Deut 9:7-8
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    7The History of Israel’s Stubbornness Remember– don’t ever forget– how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness; from the time you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place you were constantly rebelling against him.

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

  • Num 14:22
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    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,

  • Ps 106:29
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    29They made the LORD angry by their actions, and a plague broke out among them.

  • Ps 78:34
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    34When he struck them down, they sought his favor; they turned back and longed for God.

  • Ps 78:30-32
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    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 78:11
    73%

    11They forgot what he had done, the amazing things he had shown them.

  • Ps 106:24-26
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    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,

  • Neh 9:26
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    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.

  • Jer 2:6
    73%

    6They did not ask:‘Where is the LORD who delivered us out of Egypt, who brought us through the wilderness, through a land of valleys and gorges, through a land of desert and deep darkness, through a land in which no one travels, and where no one lives?’

  • Neh 9:16
    73%

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

  • Exod 16:2
    72%

    2The entire company of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

  • Exod 17:2-3
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    72%

    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?”

  • Num 32:13
    72%

    13So the LORD’s anger was kindled against the Israelites, and he made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until all that generation that had done wickedly before the LORD was finished.