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18And they tempted{H8762)} God in their heart by asking{H8800)} meat for their lust.
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Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
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?
Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. …
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-39)In these verses, I. The psalmist observes the late rebukes of Providence that the people of Israel had been under, which they had brought upon themselves by their dealing treacherously with God, Ps. 78:9-11. The children of Ephraim , in which tribe Shiloh was, though they were well armed and shot with bows, yet turned back in the day of battle . This seems to refer to that shameful defeat which th…
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