Parallel Verses
NET Bible
They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.
New American Standard Bible
By asking
King James Version
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
Holman Bible
demanding the food they craved.
International Standard Version
To test God was in their minds, when they demanded food to satisfy their cravings.
A Conservative Version
And they challenged God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
American Standard Version
And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.
Amplified
And in their hearts they put God to the test
By asking for food according to their [selfish] appetite.
Bible in Basic English
Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire.
Darby Translation
And they tempted God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;
Julia Smith Translation
And they will tempt God in their heart to ask food for their soul.
King James 2000
And they tested God in their heart by asking food for their lust.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And they tested God in their heart [by] asking food {for their craving}.
Modern King James verseion
And they tempted God in their heart by asking food for their lust.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They tempted God in their hearts, and required meat for their lust.
New Heart English Bible
They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
The Emphasized Bible
They put GOD to the proof in their heart, By asking food to their mind:
Webster
And they tempted God in their heart by asking food for their desire.
World English Bible
They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
Youngs Literal Translation
And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust.
Themes
Blessing » Temporal » From God » israelites » Supplying » Water
Gluttony » Instances of » Israel
References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 78:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lessons From Israel's Past
17 Yet they continued to sin against him, and rebelled against the sovereign One in the desert. 18 They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite. 19 They insulted God, saying, "Is God really able to give us food in the wilderness?
Cross References
Numbers 11:4
Now the mixed multitude who were among them craved more desirable foods, and so the Israelites wept again and said, "If only we had meat to eat!
1 Corinthians 10:9
And let us not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.
Exodus 16:2-3
The entire company of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the desert.
Deuteronomy 6:16
You must not put the Lord your God to the test as you did at Massah.
Psalm 95:9
where your ancestors challenged my authority, and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.
Psalm 106:14-15
In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving for meat; they challenged God in the desert.
1 Corinthians 10:6
These things happened as examples for us, so that we will not crave evil things as they did.
James 4:2-3
You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask;