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14But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
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Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
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?
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-33)This is an abridgment of the history of Israel’s provocations in the wilderness, and of the wrath of God against them for those provocations: and this abridgment is abridged by the apostle, with application to us Christians (1 Cor. 10:5); for these things were written for our admonition , that we sin not like them, lest we suffer like them. I. The cause of their sin was disregard to the works and…
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