Psalms 78:18
They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
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Referenced Verses
- Num 11:4 : 4 The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who will give us flesh to eat?
- 1 Cor 10:9 : 9 Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
- Jas 4:2-3 : 2 You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask. 3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
- Exod 16:2-3 : 2 The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness; 3 and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."
- Deut 6:16 : 16 You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
- Ps 95:9 : 9 when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.
- Ps 106:14-15 : 14 but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland. 15 He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.
- 1 Cor 10:6 : 6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
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- Ps 78:28-325 verses83%
28 He let them fall in the midst of their camp, around their habitations.
29 So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.
30 They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,
31 when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of the fattest of them, and struck down the young men of Israel.
32 For all this they still sinned, and didn't believe in his wondrous works.
- Ps 106:14-152 verses82%
14 but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.
15 He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.
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17 Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
- Ps 78:19-202 verses81%
19 Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
20 Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?"
- Ps 78:40-412 verses78%
40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!
41 They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
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56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn't keep his testimonies;
- Heb 3:8-92 verses74%
8 don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
9 where your fathers tested me by proving me, and saw my works for forty years.
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4 The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who will give us flesh to eat?
- Ps 95:8-92 verses73%
8 Don't harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
9 when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.
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40 They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.
- Ps 78:24-252 verses72%
24 He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.
25 Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.
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18 Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death.
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16 You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
- Neh 9:15-162 verses71%
15 and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.
16 "But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, didn't listen to your commandments,
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5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
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5 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, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread."
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18 Yes, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, 'This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,' and had committed awful blasphemies;
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29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them.
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3 and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."
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34 When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.
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6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.
- Ps 106:24-252 verses70%
24 Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn't believe his word,
25 but murmured in their tents, and didn't listen to Yahweh's voice.
- Exod 17:2-32 verses70%
2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink." Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?"
3 The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"
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8 They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.
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9 Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
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58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
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18 "Say to the people, 'Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you will eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, "Who will give us flesh to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt." Therefore Yahweh will give you flesh, and you will eat.
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16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn't know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:
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17 With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn't it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- Num 11:33-342 verses69%
33 While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.
34 The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.
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22 At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.
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21 They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry; and it will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,
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16 They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]. They provoked him to anger with abominations.
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6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
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22 Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?"
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22 because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;