But they kept testing and rebelling against God Most High. They did not obey his laws.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies;
- KJV Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
- BSB But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
- NKJV Yet they tested and provoked the Most High God, And did not keep His testimonies,
- NASB Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God And did not keep His testimonies,
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Quick answer
Yet even in the land they tested and rebelled against God. His goodness did not produce lasting obedience.
Overview
Despite receiving the inheritance, they 'tempted and rebelled' and ignored His testimonies. The pattern of grace followed by rebellion continued into the settled life. It demonstrates that outward blessing cannot reform the heart, underscoring the need for the inward transformation the gospel provides.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Judg 2:11–12The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals.
- Ps 78:40–41How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!
- Deut 31:16–20Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
- Neh 9:25–26They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, and olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.
- 2 Kgs 17:7–23It was so because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
- Ezek 16:15–26“‘“But you trusted in your beauty, and played the prostitute because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on everyone who passed by. It was his.
- Deut 32:15–21But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.
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