Psalm 78:40-72
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How often they t rebelled against him in the wilderness
and u grieved him in v the desert!
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They w tested God again and again
and provoked x the Holy One of Israel.
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They y did not remember his power
or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,
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z when he performed his a signs in Egypt
and his b marvels in c the fields of Zoan.
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He d turned their rivers to blood,
so that they could not drink of their streams.
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He sent among them swarms of e flies, which devoured them,
and f frogs, which destroyed them.
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He gave their crops to g the destroying locust
and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
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He destroyed their vines with h hail
and their sycamores with frost.
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He gave over their i cattle to the hail
and their flocks to thunderbolts.
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He let loose on them his burning anger,
wrath, indignation, and distress,
a company of j destroying angels.
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He made a path for his anger;
he did not spare them from death,
but gave their lives over to the plague.
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He struck down every k firstborn in Egypt,
the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of l Ham.
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Then he led out his people m like sheep
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
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n He led them in safety, so that they o were not afraid,
but p the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
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And he brought them to his q holy land,
r to the mountain which his right hand had s won.
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He t drove out nations before them;
he u apportioned them for a possession
and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
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Yet they v tested and w rebelled against the Most High God
and did not keep his testimonies,
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but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers;
they twisted like x a deceitful bow.
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For they y provoked him to anger with their z high places;
they a moved him to jealousy with their b idols.
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When God heard, he was full of c wrath,
and he utterly rejected Israel.
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He d forsook his dwelling at e Shiloh,
the tent where he dwelt among mankind,
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and delivered his f power to captivity,
his g glory to the hand of the foe.
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He h gave his people over to the sword
and i vented his wrath on his heritage.
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j Fire devoured their young men,
and their young women had no k marriage song.
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Their l priests fell by the sword,
and their m widows made no lamentation.
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Then the Lord n awoke as from sleep,
like a strong man shouting because of wine.
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And he o put his adversaries to rout;
he put them to everlasting shame.
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He rejected the tent of p Joseph;
he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
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but he chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which he q loves.
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He r built his sanctuary like the high heavens,
like the earth, which he has founded forever.
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He s chose David his servant
and took him from the sheepfolds;
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from t following the nursing ewes he brought him
to u shepherd Jacob his people,
Israel his v inheritance.
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With w upright heart he shepherded them
and x guided them with his skillful hand.
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Psalms 78:17
Yet they sinned still more against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
Psalms 78:56
Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God and did not keep his testimonies.
Psalms 107:11
For they had rebelled against the words of God, and spurned the counsel of the Most High.
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Ephesians 4:30
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
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Psalms 106:14
But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness, and put God to the test in the desert.
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Psalms 78:18
They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.
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Psalms 71:22
I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praises to you with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.
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Judges 8:34
And the people of Israel did not remember the Lord their God, who had delivered them from the hand of all their enemies on every side.
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Psalms 78:43 - 51
When he performed his signs in Egypt and his marvels in the fields of Zoan.
Psalms 105:27 - 36
They performed his signs among them and miracles in the land of Ham.
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Exodus 7:3
But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.
Psalms 106:22
Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
Acts 7:36
This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.
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Exodus 4:21
And the Lord said to Moses, "When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.
Exodus 11:9 - 10
Then the Lord said to Moses, "Pharaoh will not listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.
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Psalms 78:12
In the sight of their fathers he performed wonders in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.
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Exodus 7:17 - 24
Thus says the Lord, "By this you shall know that I am the Lord : behold, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and it shall turn into blood.
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Exodus 8:21 - 24
Or else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you and your servants and your people, and into your houses. And the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they stand.
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Exodus 8:2 - 14
But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your country with frogs.
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Exodus 10:12 - 15
Then the Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, so that they may come upon the land of Egypt and eat every plant in the land, all that the hail has left.
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Exodus 9:23 - 25
Then Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
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Exodus 9:19 - 21
Now therefore send, get your livestock and all that you have in the field into safe shelter, for every man and beast that is in the field and is not brought home will die when the hail falls on them."'
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Exodus 12:13
The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
Exodus 12:23
For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.
2 Samuel 24:16
And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was working destruction among the people, "It is enough; now stay your hand." And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
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Exodus 12:29
At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock.
Psalms 105:36
He struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their strength.
Psalms 135:8
He it was who struck down the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and of beast.
Psalms 136:10
To him who struck down the firstborn of Egypt, for his steadfast love endures forever.
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Psalms 105:23
Then Israel came to Egypt; Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
Psalms 105:27
They performed his signs among them and miracles in the land of Ham.
Psalms 106:22
Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
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Psalms 77:20
You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
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Exodus 14:19 - 20
Then the angel of God who was going before the host of Israel moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them.
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Exodus 14:13
And Moses said to the people, "Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again.
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Exodus 14:27 - 28
So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the Lord threw the Egyptians into the midst of the sea.
Exodus 15:10
You blew with your wind; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.
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Exodus 15:17
You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain, the place, O Lord, which you have made for your abode, the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.
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Isaiah 11:9
They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
Isaiah 57:13
When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you! The wind will carry them off, a breath will take them away. But he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land and shall inherit my holy mountain.
Psalms 68:16
Why do you look with hatred, O many-peaked mountain, at the mount that God desired for his abode, yes, where the Lord will dwell forever?
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Psalms 74:2
Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt.
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Psalms 44:2
You with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free.
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Joshua 23:4
Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.
Psalms 135:12
And gave their land as a heritage, a heritage to his people Israel.
Psalms 136:21 - 22
And gave their land as a heritage, for his steadfast love endures forever.
Acts 13:19
And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance.
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Psalms 78:18
They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.
Judges 2:11 - 12
And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals.
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Psalms 78:40
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!
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Hosea 7:16
They return, but not upward; they are like a treacherous bow; their princes shall fall by the sword because of the insolence of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
Psalms 78:9
The Ephraimites, armed with the bow, turned back on the day of battle.
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Deuteronomy 31:29
For I know that after my death you will surely act corruptly and turn aside from the way that I have commanded you. And in the days to come evil will befall you, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger through the work of your hands.
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Leviticus 26:30
And I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you.
Deuteronomy 12:2
You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
1 Kings 11:7
Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.
1 Kings 12:31
He also made temples on high places and appointed priests from among all the people, who were not of the Levites.
Ezekiel 20:28
For when I had brought them into the land that I swore to give them, then wherever they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their pleasing aromas, and there they poured out their drink offerings.
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Numbers 25:11
Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy.
Deuteronomy 32:16
They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger.
Deuteronomy 32:21
They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Judges 2:12
And they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed down to them. And they provoked the Lord to anger.
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Deuteronomy 7:5
But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and chop down their Asherim and burn their carved images with fire.
Deuteronomy 7:25
The carved images of their gods you shall burn with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 12:3
You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and destroy their name out of that place.
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Psalms 78:62
He gave his people over to the sword and vented his wrath on his heritage.
Psalms 106:40
Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people, and he abhorred his heritage.
Deuteronomy 3:26
But the Lord was angry with me because of you and would not listen to me. And the Lord said to me, 'Enough from you; do not speak to me of this matter again.
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1 Samuel 4:11
And the ark of God was captured, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.
Jeremiah 7:12
Go now to my place that was in Shiloh, where I made my name dwell at first, and see what I did to it because of the evil of my people Israel.
Jeremiah 7:14
Therefore I will do to the house that is called by my name, and in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.
Jeremiah 26:6
Then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.'
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Joshua 18:1
Then the whole congregation of the people of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The land lay subdued before them.
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Psalms 132:8
Arise, O Lord, and go to your resting place, you and the ark of your might.
Psalms 63:2
So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory.
Psalms 96:6
Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
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1 Samuel 4:21
And she named the child Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel!" because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
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1 Samuel 4:10
So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and they fled, every man to his home. And there was a very great slaughter, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers.
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Psalms 78:59
When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.
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Psalms 79:5
How long, O Lord ? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
Psalms 89:46
How long, O Lord ? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?
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Jeremiah 7:34
And I will silence in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, for the land shall become a waste.
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1 Samuel 4:11
And the ark of God was captured, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.
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Job 27:15
Those who survive him the pestilence buries, and his widows do not weep.
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Psalms 73:20
Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.
Psalms 35:23
Awake and rouse yourself for my vindication, for my cause, my God and my Lord!
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Psalms 40:14
Let those be put to shame and disappointed altogether who seek to snatch away my life; let those be turned back and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt!
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Psalms 80:1
Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock! You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.
Psalms 81:5
He made it a decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known:
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Psalms 87:2
The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.
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1 Kings 6:1
In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord.
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1 Samuel 16:12 - 13
And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the Lord said, "Arise, anoint him, for this is he.
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2 Samuel 7:8
Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel.
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2 Samuel 5:2
In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And the Lord said to you, 'You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.'
Psalms 28:9
Oh, save your people and bless your heritage! Be their shepherd and carry them forever.
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1 Samuel 10:1
Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him and said, "Has not the Lord anointed you to be prince over his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the Lord and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies. And this shall be the sign to you that the Lord has anointed you to be prince over his heritage.
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Psalms 101:2
I will ponder the way that is blameless. Oh when will you come to me? I will walk with integrity of heart within my house.
1 Kings 9:4
And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules.
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Psalms 77:20
You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
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