They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
Parallel translations
- KJV Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
- BSB Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
- NKJV Yes, again and again they tempted God, And limited the Holy One of Israel.
- NASB Again and again they tempted God, And pained the Holy One of Israel.
- NLT Again and again they tested God’s patience and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Num 14:22because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
- Heb 3:8–11don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
- Acts 7:39to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
- Deut 6:16You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
- Ps 78:19–20Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
- Num 14:4They said to one another, “Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.”
- 2 Pet 2:21–22For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
- 2 Kgs 19:22Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!
- Ps 89:18For our shield belongs to Yahweh; our king to the Holy One of Israel.
- Mark 5:35–36While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler’s house saying, “Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any more?”
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