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Psa. 78:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And they sinned yet more against him by provokinge the most High in the wilderness.

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Deut. 9:22• ²²And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked Jehovah to wrath. (Deut. 9:22)

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Heb. 3:16‑19• ¹⁶(for who was it, who, having heard, provoked? but was it not all who came out of Egypt by Moses?
¹⁷And with whom was he wroth forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
¹⁸And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who had not hearkened to the word?
¹⁹And we see that they could not enter in on account of unbelief;) (Heb. 3:16‑19)

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Psa. 78:32• ³²For all this, they sinned still, and believed not in his marvellous works; (Psa. 78:32)

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Psa. 95:8‑10• ⁸Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah, in the wilderness;
⁹When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
¹⁰Forty years was I grieved with the generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways; (Psa. 95:8‑10)

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Psa. 106:13‑32• ¹³They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:
¹⁴And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted *God in the desert.
¹⁵Then he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.
¹⁶And they envied Moses in the camp, and Aaron, the saint of Jehovah.
¹⁷The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram;
¹⁸And fire was kindled in their company; a flame burned up the wicked.
¹⁹They made a calf in Horeb, and did homage to a molten image;
²⁰And they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
²¹They forgot *God their Saviour, who had done great things in Egypt,
²²Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.
²³And he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses, his chosen, stood before him in the breach, to turn away his fury, lest he should destroy them.
²⁴And they despised the pleasant land; they believed not his word,
²⁵But murmured in their tents: they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah.
²⁶And he lifted up his hand to them, that he would make them fall in the wilderness;
²⁷And that he would make their seed fall among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.
²⁸And they joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead;
²⁹And they provoked him to anger with their doings; and a plague broke out among them.
³⁰Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment, and the plague was stayed;
³¹And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness, from generation to generation, for evermore.
³²And they moved him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account; (Psa. 106:13‑32)

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Deut. 9:8,12‑22• ⁸And at Horeb ye provoked Jehovah to wrath, and Jehovah was angry with you, to destroy you,
¹²And Jehovah said unto me, Arise, go down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them: they have made for themselves a molten image.
¹³And Jehovah spoke unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
¹⁴Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
¹⁵And I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire; and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
¹⁶And I saw, and behold, ye had sinned against Jehovah your God: ye had made for yourselves a molten calf; ye had quickly turned aside from the way which Jehovah had commanded you.
¹⁷And I seized the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
¹⁸And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights,--I ate no bread and drank no water,--because of all your sin which ye had sinned, in doing what is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.
¹⁹For I was afraid of the anger and fury wherewith Jehovah was wroth against you to destroy you. And Jehovah listened unto me also at that time.
²⁰And with Aaron Jehovah was very angry to destroy him; and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
²¹And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, and ground it very small, until it became fine dust; and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that flowed down from the mountain.
²²And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked Jehovah to wrath. (Deut. 9:8,12‑22)

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Heb. 3:16‑19• ¹⁶(for who was it, who, having heard, provoked? but was it not all who came out of Egypt by Moses?
¹⁷And with whom was he wroth forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
¹⁸And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who had not hearkened to the word?
¹⁹And we see that they could not enter in on account of unbelief;) (Heb. 3:16‑19)

• Men speak against God when there are no miracles, and ask. “Why does He not intervene?” They forget that when God wrought miracles before the eyes of men, they spake against God. Miracles and signs do not change the heart of man. Miracles or no miracles, the natural man is unbelieving. (“Psalms 78” by H. Smith)

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Yet they still went on sinning against him, provokingd the Most High in the desert;

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Or "rebelling against"; and so ver. 40.