Psalm 78:56 “But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His…”

Psalm 78:56

But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

World English Bible

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies,

American Standard Version

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;

Geneva Bible 1599

Yet they tempted, and prouoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies,

Darby Translation

But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,

Young's Literal Translation

And they tempt and provoke God Most High, And His testimonies have not kept.

Bible in Basic English

But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;

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Cross references

“Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:”

Deuteronomy 31:16–20 Deuteronomy 32:15–21 2 Kings 17:7–23 Ezekiel 16:15–26 Psalm 78:40 Psalm 78:41

Deuteronomy 31:16–20 · BSB

And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant…

Deuteronomy 32:15–21 · BSB

But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

2 Kings 17:7–23 · BSB

All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods

Ezekiel 16:15–26 · BSB

But because of your fame, you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot. You lavished your favors on everyone who passed by, and your beauty was theirs for the asking.

Psalm 78:40 · BSB

How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

Psalm 78:41 · BSB

Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

55He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

57They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.

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