Psalms 78:18 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 78:18

And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

KJV

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ASV

And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.

WEB

They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.

YLT

And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust.

DBT

And they temptedGod in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;

About this book

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

17 verses on the floor

Matthew 4:7
Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
1 Corinthians 10:9
Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Matthew 6:31
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Numbers 11:4
And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices1

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Nothing is more provoking to God than our quarrelling with our allotment and indulging the desires of the flesh. (2.) By distrusting his power to give them what they desired. This was tempting God indeed.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 78:18DEU 6:16 EXO 17:7
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 78:181CO 10:9 NUM 21:5-6
PSA 78:18DEU 6:16 LUK 4:12
PSA 78:18DEU 6:16 MAT 4:7
PSA 78:18DEU 6:16 PSA 95:8-9
PSA 78:18DEU 6:16 HEB 3:8-9
PSA 78:181CO 10:9 HEB 3:8-11
PSA 78:181CO 10:9 EXO 17:2

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