Psalms 78:18 · KJV
“And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.”
— Psalms 78:18
And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? {furnish: Heb. order}
Psalms 78 — Context
He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
17And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
18And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
19Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? {furnish: Heb. order}
20Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
Cross References
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? {fell...: Heb. lusted a lust} {wept...: Heb. returned and wept}
Deuteronomy 6:16
Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted {him} in Massah.
1 Corinthians 10:9
Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
Psalms 106:14-15
But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. {lusted...: Heb. lusted a lust}
1 Corinthians 10:6
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. {our...: Gr. our figures}
Psalms 95:9
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
Exodus 16:2-3
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
James 4:2-3
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.