Psalm 78:56 {77:56}
Good News Translation
But they rebelled against Almighty God and put him to the test. They did not obey his commandments,

New Revised Standard Version
Yet they tested the Most High God, and rebelled against him. They did not observe his decrees,

Contemporary English Version
But the people tested God Most High, and they refused to obey his laws.

New American Bible
But they tested and rebelled against God Most High, his decrees they did not observe.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God: and they kept not his testimonies.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Psalm 78:40,41 How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water? . . .

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, . . .

Deuteronomy 32:15-21 The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour. . . .

Judges 2:11,12 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they served Baalim . . .

2 Kings 17:7 For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord, their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharao, king of Egypt; and they worshipped strange gods.

Nehemiah 9:25,26 And they took strong cities and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods: cisterns made by others, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: and they ate, and were filled, and became fat, and abounded with delight in thy great goodness. . . .

Ezekiel 16:15-26 But trusting in thy beauty, thou playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and thou hast prostituted thyself to every passenger, to be his. . . .

Context
I Will Open My Mouth in Parables
55And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles. 56Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God: and they kept not his testimonies.57And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow.…
Cross References
Exodus 23:21
Take notice of him, and hear his voice, and do not think him one to be contemned: for he will not forgive when thou hast sinned, and my name is in him.

Judges 2:11
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they served Baalim

1 Samuel 4:11
And the ark of God was taken: and the two sons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, were slain.

Psalm 78:18
And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their desires.

Psalm 78:40
How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water?

Psalm 78:55
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