Psalms 78:56

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

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  • Judg 2:11-12 : 11 A Monotonous Cycle The Israelites did evil before the LORD by worshiping the Baals. 12 They abandoned the LORD God of their ancestors who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods– the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped them and made the LORD angry.
  • 2 Kgs 17:7-9 : 7 A Summary of Israel’s Sinful History This happened because the Israelites sinned against the LORD their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods; 8 they observed the practices of the nations whom the LORD had driven out from before them, and followed the example of the kings of Israel. 9 The Israelites said things about the LORD their God that were not right. They built high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city. 10 They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. 11 They 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. 12 They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the LORD’s command. 13 The LORD solemnly warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and all the seers,“Turn back from your evil ways; obey my commandments and rules that are recorded in the law. I ordered your ancestors to keep this law and sent my servants the prophets to remind you of its demands.” 14 But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors, who had not trusted the LORD their God. 15 They rejected his rules, the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and the laws he had commanded them to obey. They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to the LORD. They copied the practices of the surrounding nations in blatant disregard of the LORD’s command. 16 They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God; they made two metal calves and an Asherah pole, bowed down to all the stars in the sky, and worshiped Baal. 17 They 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. 18 So the LORD was furious with Israel and rejected them; only the tribe of Judah was left. 19 Judah also failed to keep the commandments of the LORD their God; they followed Israel’s example. 20 So the LORD rejected all of Israel’s descendants; he humiliated them and handed them over to robbers, until he had thrown them from his presence. 21 He tore Israel away from David’s dynasty, and Jeroboam son of Nebat became their king. Jeroboam drove Israel away from the LORD and encouraged them to commit a serious sin. 22 The Israelites followed in the sinful ways of Jeroboam and did not repudiate them. 23 Finally the LORD rejected Israel just as he had warned he would do through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.
  • Neh 9:25-26 : 25 They captured fortified cities and fertile land. They took possession of houses full of all sorts of good things– wells previously dug, vineyards, olive trees, and fruit trees in abundance. They ate until they were full and grew fat. They enjoyed to the full your great goodness. 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.
  • Ps 78:40-41 : 40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and insulted him in the wastelands! 41 They again challenged God, and offended the Holy One of Israel.
  • Ezek 16:15-26 : 15 “‘But you trusted in your beauty and capitalized on your fame by becoming a prostitute. You offered your sexual favors to every man who passed by so that your beauty became his. 16 You took some of your clothing and made for yourself decorated high places; you engaged in prostitution on them. You went to him to become his. 17 You also took your beautiful jewelry, made of my gold and my silver I had given to you, and made for yourself male images and engaged in prostitution with them. 18 You took your embroidered clothing and used it to cover them; you offered my olive oil and my incense to them. 19 As for my food that I gave you– the fine flour, olive oil, and honey I fed you– you placed it before them as a soothing aroma. That is exactly what happened, declares the Sovereign LORD. 20 “‘You took your sons and your daughters whom you bore to me and you sacrificed them as food for the idols to eat. As if your prostitution was not enough, 21 you slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols. 22 And with all your abominable practices and prostitution you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, kicking around in your blood. 23 “‘After all of your evil–“Woe! Woe to you!” declares the Sovereign LORD– 24 you built yourself a chamber and put up a pavilion in every public square. 25 At the head of every street you erected your pavilion and you disgraced your beauty when you spread your legs to every passerby and multiplied your promiscuity. 26 You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your promiscuity and provoking me to anger.
  • Deut 31:16-20 : 16 Then the LORD said to Moses,“You are about to die, and then these people will begin to prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land into which they are going. They will reject me and break my covenant that I have made with them. 17 At that time my anger will erupt against them and I will abandon them and hide my face from them until they are devoured. Many disasters and distresses will overcome them so that they will say at that time,‘Have not these disasters overcome us because our God is not among us?’ 18 But I will certainly hide myself at that time because of all the wickedness they will have done by turning to other gods. 19 Now write down for yourselves the following song and teach it to the Israelites. Put it into their very mouths so that this song may serve as my witness against the Israelites! 20 For after I have brought them to the land I promised to their ancestors– one flowing with milk and honey– and they eat their fill and become fat, then they will turn to other gods and worship them; they will reject me and break my covenant.
  • Deut 32:15-21 : 15 Israel’s Rebellion But Jeshurun became fat and kicked, you got fat, thick, and stuffed! Then he deserted the God who made him, and treated the Rock who saved him with contempt. 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.

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  • Ps 78:17-19
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    17 Yet they continued to sin against him, and rebelled against the Most High in the desert.

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

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

  • Ps 78:40-42
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    40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and insulted him in the wastelands!

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

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

  • Ps 78:10-11
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    10 They did not keep their covenant with God, and they refused to obey his law.

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

  • 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.

  • Ps 78:57-58
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    57 They were unfaithful and acted as treacherously as their ancestors; they were as unreliable as a malfunctioning bow.

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

  • Ps 106:13-14
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    13 They quickly forgot what he had done; they did not wait for his instructions.

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

  • Ps 106:24-26
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    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,

  • Neh 9:16-18
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    16 “But they– our ancestors– behaved presumptuously; they rebelled and did not obey your commandments.

    17 They refused to obey and did not recall your miracles that you had performed among them. Instead, they rebelled and appointed a leader to return to their bondage in Egypt. But you are a God of forgiveness, merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and unfailing in your loyal love. You did not abandon them,

    18 even 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 78:32
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    32 Despite all this, they continued to sin, and did not trust him to do amazing things.

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

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

  • Ps 107:11
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    11 because they had rebelled against God’s commands, and rejected the instructions of the Most High.

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

  • Ps 78:7-8
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    7 Then they will place their confidence in God. They will not forget the works of God, and they will obey his commands.

    8 Then they will not be like their ancestors, who were a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that was not committed and faithful to God.

  • Deut 1:26
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    26 Disobedience at Kadesh Barnea You were not willing to go up, however, but instead rebelled against the LORD your God.

  • Ps 78:30
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    30 They were not yet filled up, their food was still in their mouths,

  • Ps 106:32-33
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    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.

  • Heb 3:9
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    9 “There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.

  • Ps 78:36-37
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    36 But they deceived him with their words, and lied to him.

    37 They were not really committed to him, and they were unfaithful to his covenant.

  • Ps 95:9
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    9 where your ancestors challenged my authority, and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.

  • Num 14:22-23
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    22 For 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,

    23 they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.

  • 2 Kgs 17:14-15
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    14 But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors, who had not trusted the LORD their God.

    15 They rejected his rules, the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and the laws he had commanded them to obey. They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to the LORD. They copied the practices of the surrounding nations in blatant disregard of the LORD’s command.

  • Neh 9:29-30
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    29 And you solemnly admonished them in order to return them to your law, but they behaved presumptuously and did not obey your commandments. They sinned against your ordinances– those by which an individual, if he obeys them, will live. They boldly turned from you; they rebelled and did not obey.

    30 You prolonged your kindness with them for many years, and you solemnly admonished them by your Spirit through your prophets. Still they paid no attention, so you delivered them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.

  • Deut 6:16
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    16 Exhortation to Obey the Lord Exclusively You must not put the LORD your God to the test as you did at Massah.

  • Deut 9:22-23
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    22 Moreover, you continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.

    23 And when he sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you,“Go up and possess the land I have given you,” you rebelled against the LORD your God and would neither believe nor obey him.

  • Ps 78:55
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    55 He drove the nations out from before them; he assigned them their tribal allotments and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down.

  • Judg 2:12
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    12 They abandoned the LORD God of their ancestors who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods– the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped them and made the LORD angry.

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

  • 2 Kgs 17:40
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    40 But they pay no attention; instead they observe their earlier practices.

  • Judg 2:17
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    17 But they did not obey their leaders. Instead they prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped them. They quickly turned aside from the path their ancestors had walked. Their ancestors had obeyed the LORD’s commands, but they did not.

  • Job 34:27
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    27 because they have turned away from following him, and have not understood any of his ways,

  • Deut 9:8
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    8 At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.

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