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Psalms 78:56

54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.

55 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.

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

57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

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BSB
But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
KJV
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
WEB
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies,
ASV
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;
DARBY
But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,
BLB
And they tested and provoked El-Elyon, and His testimonies they did not keep.
ÅB
Men de fristet Gud, den Høyeste, og var gjenstridige mot ham, og de aktet ikke på hans vitnesbyrd.
OTB
Likevel fristet og gjorde de opprør mot Den Høyeste Gud
Og holdt ikke Hans forskrifter,
B1930
Men de fristet Gud, den Høieste, og var gjenstridige mot ham, og de aktet ikke på hans vidnesbyrd.

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Cross references

  • Judges 2:11–12

    And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:

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  • 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.

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  • Psalms 78:40–41

    How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

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  • 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.

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  • 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,

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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