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Psalms 78:40

Psalms 78:40
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Yea, they turned back, and tempted God,.... They talked of going back to Egypt, and of choosing a captain to lead them back thither, Num 14:3, and they turned back from the Lord, and from his good…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness - Margin, Or, rebel against him. The Hebrew word may have the signification in the margin. The idea is, that they were perverse and rebellious; that they…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Psalms 78:40-72

The matter and scope of this paragraph are the same with the former, showing what great mercies God had bestowed upon Israel, how provoking they had been, what judgments he had brought upon them for…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Psalms 78:40-55

But as God multiplied His mercies, Israel multiplied its acts of rebellion: and in order to set the heinousness of their ingratitude in a still stronger light, the Psalmist goes back to recount the…