Psalms 78:19

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They insulted God, saying,“Is God really able to give us food in the wilderness?

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 21:5 : 5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses,“Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we detest this worthless food.”
  • Num 11:4 : 4 Complaints about Food Now the mixed multitude who were among them craved more desirable foods, and so the Israelites wept again and said,“If only we had meat to eat!
  • Num 11:13 : 13 From where shall I get meat to give to this entire people, for they cry to me,‘Give us meat, that we may eat!’
  • Exod 16:3 : 3 The Israelites said to them,“If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger!”
  • Exod 16:8-9 : 8 Moses said,“You will know this when the LORD gives you meat to eat in the evening and bread in the morning to satisfy you, because the LORD has heard your murmurings that you are murmuring against him. As for us, what are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.” 9 Then Moses said to Aaron,“Tell the whole community of the Israelites,‘Come before the LORD, because he has heard your murmurings.’” 10 As Aaron spoke to the whole community of the Israelites and they looked toward the wilderness, there the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud,
  • Ps 23:5 : 5 You prepare a feast before me in plain sight of my enemies. You refresh my head with oil; my cup is completely full.
  • Rom 9:20 : 20 But who indeed are you– a mere human being– to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder,“Why have you made me like this?”
  • Rev 13:6 : 6 So the beast opened his mouth to blaspheme against God– to blaspheme both his name and his dwelling place, that is, those who dwell in heaven.
  • 2 Chr 32:19 : 19 They talked about the God of Jerusalem as if he were one of the man-made gods of the nations of the earth.
  • Job 34:37 : 37 For he adds transgression to his sin; in our midst he claps his hands, and multiplies his words against God.”
  • Num 20:3 : 3 The people contended with Moses, saying,“If only we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 78:20-21
    2 verses
    82%

    20Yes, he struck a rock and water flowed out, streams gushed forth. But can he also give us food? Will he provide meat for his people?”

    21When the LORD heard this, he was furious. A fire broke out against Jacob, and his anger flared up against Israel,

  • Ps 78:15-18
    4 verses
    81%

    15He broke open rocks in the wilderness, and gave them enough water to fill the depths of the sea.

    16He caused streams to flow from the rock, and made the water flow like rivers.

    17Yet they continued to sin against him, and rebelled against the Most High in the desert.

    18They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.

  • Num 21:5
    77%

    5And the people spoke against God and against Moses,“Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we detest this worthless food.”

  • Ps 78:40-41
    2 verses
    76%

    40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and insulted him in the wastelands!

    41They again challenged God, and offended the Holy One of Israel.

  • Ps 106:14
    75%

    14In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving for meat; they challenged God in the wastelands.

  • Neh 9:15
    72%

    15You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.

  • Exod 17:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2So the people contended with Moses, and they said,“Give us water to drink!” Moses said to them,“Why do you contend with me? Why do you test the LORD?”

    3But the people were very thirsty there for water, and they murmured against Moses and said,“Why in the world did you bring us up from Egypt– to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”

  • Num 11:22
    72%

    22Would they have enough if the flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? If all the fish of the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?”

  • Ps 78:28-32
    5 verses
    72%

    28He caused them to fall right in the middle of their camp, all around their homes.

    29They ate until they were beyond full; he gave them what they desired.

    30They were not yet filled up, their food was still in their mouths,

    31when the anger of God flared up against them. He killed some of the strongest of them; he brought the young men of Israel to their knees.

    32Despite all this, they continued to sin, and did not trust him to do amazing things.

  • Ps 106:24-26
    3 verses
    71%

    24They rejected the fruitful land; they did not believe his promise.

    25They grumbled in their tents; they did not obey the LORD.

    26So he made a solemn vow that he would make them die in the wilderness,

  • Exod 16:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2The entire company of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

    3The Israelites said to them,“If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger!”

  • Ps 78:56
    71%

    56Yet they challenged and defied God Most High, and did not obey his commands.

  • Ps 105:40
    71%

    40They asked for food, and he sent quails; he satisfied them with food from the sky.

  • Neh 9:18
    70%

    18even when they made a cast image of a calf for themselves and said,‘This is your God who brought you up from Egypt,’ or when they committed atrocious blasphemies.

  • Jer 2:6
    70%

    6They did not ask:‘Where is the LORD who delivered us out of Egypt, who brought us through the wilderness, through a land of valleys and gorges, through a land of desert and deep darkness, through a land in which no one travels, and where no one lives?’

  • Exod 15:24
    70%

    24So the people murmured against Moses, saying,“What can we drink?”

  • Heb 3:17
    70%

    17And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

  • Num 20:4
    70%

    4Why have you brought up the LORD’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?

  • Heb 3:9
    69%

    9“There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.

  • Num 14:11
    69%

    11The Punishment from God The LORD said to Moses,“How long will this people despise me, and how long will they not believe in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them?

  • Exod 17:7
    69%

    7He called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contending of the Israelites and because of their testing the LORD, saying,“Is the LORD among us or not?”

  • Isa 48:21
    69%

    21They do not thirst as he leads them through dry regions; he makes water flow out of a rock for them; he splits open a rock and water flows out.’

  • Deut 9:22
    69%

    22Moreover, you continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.

  • Exod 16:8
    69%

    8Moses said,“You will know this when the LORD gives you meat to eat in the evening and bread in the morning to satisfy you, because the LORD has heard your murmurings that you are murmuring against him. As for us, what are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.”

  • Neh 9:20
    69%

    20You imparted your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths; you provided water for their thirst.

  • Deut 8:15-16
    2 verses
    69%

    15and who brought you through the great, fearful wilderness of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and

    16fed you in the wilderness with manna(which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.

  • Deut 1:27
    68%

    27You complained among yourselves privately and said,“Because the LORD hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!

  • Num 14:2
    68%

    2And all the Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them,“If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had perished in this wilderness!

  • Num 14:22
    68%

    22For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me,

  • Ps 78:24
    68%

    24He rained down manna for them to eat; he gave them the grain of heaven.

  • Num 20:10
    68%

    10Then Moses and Aaron gathered the community together in front of the rock, and he said to them,“Listen, you rebels, must we bring water out of this rock for you?”

  • Job 22:17
    68%

    17They were saying to God,‘Turn away from us,’ and‘What can the Almighty do to us?’

  • Num 20:2
    68%

    2And there was no water for the community, and so they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron.

  • 1 Cor 10:5
    68%

    5But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.

  • Num 14:27
    68%

    27“How long must I bear with this evil congregation that murmurs against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites that they murmured against me.

  • Ps 95:9
    68%

    9where your ancestors challenged my authority, and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.