Psalm 78:10 {77:10}
Good News Translation
They did not keep their covenant with God; they refused to obey his law.

New Revised Standard Version
They did not keep God’s covenant, but refused to walk according to his law.

Contemporary English Version
They broke their agreement with God, and they turned their backs on his teaching.

New American Bible
They did not keep God’s covenant; they refused to walk according to his law.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They kept not the covenant of God: and in his law they would not walk.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They kept not the covenant of God: and in his law they would not walk.

Deuteronomy 31:16,20 And the Lord said to Moses: Behold thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people rising up will go a fornicating after strange gods in the land, to which it goeth in to dwell: there will they forsake me, and will make void the covenant, which I have made with them, . . .

Judges 2:10-12 And all that generation was gathered to their fathers: and there arose others that knew not the Lord and the works which he had done for Israel. . . .

2 Kings 17:14,15 And they hearkened not, but hardened their necks like to the neck of their fathers, who would not obey the Lord, their God. . . .

Nehemiah 9:26-29 But they provoked thee to wrath, and departed from thee, and threw thy law behind their backs: and they killed thy prophets, who admonished them earnestly to return to thee: and they were guilty of great blasphemies. . . .

Jeremiah 31:32 Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, the covenant which they made void, and I had dominion over them, saith the Lord.

Context
I Will Open My Mouth in Parables
9The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: they have turned back in the day of battle. 10They kept not the covenant of God: and in his law they would not walk.11And they forgot his benefits, and his wonders that he had shewn them.…
Cross References
Exodus 16:28
And the Lord said to Moses: How long will you refuse to keep my commandments, and my law?

Exodus 19:5
If therefore you will hear my voice, and keep my covenant, you shall be my peculiar possession above all people: for all the earth is mine.

Judges 2:20
And the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he said: Behold this nation hath made void my covenant, which I had made with their fathers, and hath despised to hearken to my voice:

1 Kings 11:11
The Lord therefore said to Solomon: Because thou hast done this, and hast not kept my covenant, and my precepts, which I have commanded thee, I will divide and rend thy kingdom, and will give it to thy servant.

2 Kings 17:15
And they rejected his ordinances, and the covenant that he made with their fathers, and the testimonies which he testified against them: and they followed vanities, and acted vainly: and they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning which the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.

2 Kings 18:12
Because they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord, their God, but transgressed his covenant: all that Moses, the servant of the Lord, commanded, they would not hear, nor do.

Psalm 119:1
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.

Jeremiah 32:23
And they came in, and possessed it: but they obeyed not thy voice, and they walked not in thy law: and they did not any of those things that thou didst command them to do, and all these evils are come upon them.

Jeremiah 44:10
They are not cleansed even to this day: neither have they feared, nor walked in the law of the Lord, nor in my commandments, which I set before you and your fathers.

Jeremiah 44:23
Because you have sacrificed to idols, and have sinned against the Lord: and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord, and have not walked in his law, and in his commandments, and in his testimonies: therefore are these evils come upon you, as at this day.

Ezekiel 5:6
And she hath despised my judgments, so as to be more wicked than the Gentiles; and my commandments, more than the countries that are round about her: for they have cast off my judgments, and have not walked in my commandments.

Psalm 78:9
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