Psalms 78:56 · KJV
“Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:”
— Psalms 78:56
He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
Psalms 78 — Context
And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, {even to} this mountain, {which} his right hand had purchased.
55He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
56Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
57But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Cross References
Judges 2:11-12
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:
Psalms 78:40-41
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, {and} grieve him in the desert! {provoke: or, rebel against}
Ezekiel 16:15-26
But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
Deuteronomy 32:15-21
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered {with fatness}; then he forsook God {which} made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
2 Kings 17:7-23
For {so} it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
Nehemiah 9:25-26
And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness. {wells: or, cisterns} {fruit...: Heb. tree of food}
Deuteronomy 31:16-20
And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go {to be} among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. {sleep: Heb. lie down}