Psalms 106:14
They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.
BSB
ASV
But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, And tempted God in the desert.
KJV
But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
Literally, "lusted a lust" (quoted from Nu 11:4, Margin). Previously, there had been impatience as to necessaries of life; here it is lusting (Ps 78:18).
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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1 Corinthians 10:9We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.
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They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.
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and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”
Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,
So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?”
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Numbers 11:4Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?
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These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.
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1 Corinthians 10:6These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.
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In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal…
Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.