Bible Cross References
And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place;
Psalm 77:20
You led your people like a shepherd, with Moses and Aaron in charge.
Psalm 78:14-72
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By day he led them with a cloud and all night long with the light of a fire.
15
He split rocks open in the desert and gave them water from the depths.
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He caused a stream to come out of the rock and made water flow like a river.
17
But they continued to sin against God, and in the desert they rebelled against the Most High.
18
They deliberately put God to the test by demanding the food they wanted.
19
They spoke against God and said, "Can God supply food in the desert?
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It is true that he struck the rock, and water flowed out in a torrent; but can he also provide us with bread and give his people meat?"
21
And so the LORD was angry when he heard them; he attacked his people with fire, and his anger against them grew,
22
because they had no faith in him and did not believe that he would save them.
23
But he spoke to the sky above and commanded its doors to open;
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he gave them grain from heaven, by sending down manna for them to eat.
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So they ate the food of angels, and God gave them all they wanted.
26
He also caused the east wind to blow, and by his power he stirred up the south wind;
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and to his people he sent down birds, as many as the grains of sand on the shore;
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they fell in the middle of the camp all around the tents.
29
So the people ate and were satisfied; God gave them what they wanted.
30
But they had not yet satisfied their craving and were still eating,
31
when God became angry with them and killed their strongest men, the best young men of Israel.
32
In spite of all this the people kept sinning; in spite of his miracles they did not trust him.
33
So he ended their days like a breath and their lives with sudden disaster.
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Whenever he killed some of them, the rest would turn to him; they would repent and pray earnestly to him.
35
They remembered that God was their protector, that the Almighty came to their aid.
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But their words were all lies; nothing they said was sincere.
37
They were not loyal to him; they were not faithful to their covenant with him.
38
But God was merciful to his people. He forgave their sin and did not destroy them. Many times he held back his anger and restrained his fury.
39
He remembered that they were only mortal beings, like a wind that blows by and is gone.
40
How often they rebelled against him in the desert; how many times they made him sad!
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Again and again they put God to the test and brought pain to the Holy God of Israel.
42
They forgot his great power and the day when he saved them from their enemies
43
and performed his mighty acts and miracles in the plain of Zoan in the land of Egypt.
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He turned the rivers into blood, and the Egyptians had no water to drink.
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He sent flies among them, that tormented them, and frogs that ruined their land.
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He sent locusts to eat their crops and to destroy their fields.
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He killed their grapevines with hail and their fig trees with frost.
48
He killed their cattle with hail and their flocks with lightning.
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He caused them great distress by pouring out his anger and fierce rage, which came as messengers of death.
50
He did not restrain his anger or spare their lives, but killed them with a plague.
51
He killed the first-born sons of all the families of Egypt.
52
Then he led his people out like a shepherd and guided them through the desert.
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He led them safely, and they were not afraid; but the sea came rolling over their enemies.
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He brought them to his holy land, to the mountains which he himself conquered.
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He drove out the inhabitants as his people advanced; he divided their land among the tribes of Israel and gave their homes to his people.
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But they rebelled against Almighty God and put him to the test. They did not obey his commandments,
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but were rebellious and disloyal like their ancestors, unreliable as a crooked arrow.
58
They angered him with their heathen places of worship, and with their idols they made him furious.
59
God was angry when he saw it, so he rejected his people completely.
60
He abandoned his tent in Shiloh, the home where he had lived among us.
61
He allowed our enemies to capture the Covenant Box, the symbol of his power and glory.
62
He was angry with his own people and let them be killed by their enemies.
63
Young men were killed in war, and young women had no one to marry.
64
Priests died by violence, and their widows were not allowed to mourn.
65
At last the Lord woke up as though from sleep; he was like a strong man excited by wine.
66
He drove his enemies back in lasting and shameful defeat.
67
But he rejected the descendants of Joseph; he did not select the tribe of Ephraim.
68
Instead he chose the tribe of Judah and Mount Zion, which he dearly loves.
69
There he built his Temple like his home in heaven; he made it firm like the earth itself, secure for all time.
70
He chose his servant David; he took him from the pastures,
71
where he looked after his flocks, and he made him king of Israel, the shepherd of the people of God.
72
David took care of them with unselfish devotion and led them with skill.
Psalm 105:39-41
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God put a cloud over his people and a fire at night to give them light.
40
They asked, and he sent quails; he gave them food from heaven to satisfy them.
41
He opened a rock, and water gushed out, flowing through the desert like a river.
Psalm 106:12-48
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Then his people believed his promises and sang praises to him.
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But they quickly forgot what he had done and acted without waiting for his advice.
14
They were filled with craving in the desert and put God to the test;
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so he gave them what they asked for, but also sent a terrible disease among them.
16
There in the desert they were jealous of Moses and of Aaron, the LORD's holy servant.
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Then the earth opened up and swallowed Dathan and buried Abiram and his family;
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fire came down on their followers and burned up those wicked people.
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They made a gold bull-calf at Sinai and worshiped that idol;
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they exchanged the glory of God for the image of an animal that eats grass.
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They forgot the God who had saved them by his mighty acts in Egypt.
22
What wonderful things he did there! What amazing things at the Red Sea!
23
When God said that he would destroy his people, his chosen servant, Moses, stood up against God and kept his anger from destroying them.
24
Then they rejected the pleasant land, because they did not believe God's promise.
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They stayed in their tents and grumbled and would not listen to the LORD.
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So he have them a solomn warning that he would make them die in the desert
27
and scatter their descendants among the heathen, letting them die in foreign countries.
28
Then at Peor, God's people joined in the worship of Baal and ate sacrifices offered to dead gods.
29
They stirred up the LORD's anger by their actions, and a terrible disease broke out among them.
30
But Phinehas stood up and punished the guilty, and the plague was stopped.
31
This has been remembered in his favor ever since and will be for all time to come.
32
At the springs of Meribah the people made the LORD angry, and Moses was in trouble on their account.
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They made him so bitter that he spoke without stopping to think.
34
They did not kill the heathen, as the LORD had commanded them to do,
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but they intermarried with them and adopted their pagan ways.
36
God's people worshiped idols, and this caused their destruction.
37
They offered their own sons and daughters as sacrifices to the idols of Canaan.
38
They killed those innocent children, and the land was defiled by those murders.
39
They made themselves impure by their actions and were unfaithful to God.
40
So the LORD was angry with his people; he was disgusted with them.
41
He abandoned them to the power of the heathen, and their enemies ruled over them.
42
They were oppressed by their enemies and were in complete subjection to them.
43
Many times the LORD rescued his people, but they chose to rebel against him and sank deeper into sin.
44
Yet the LORD heard them when they cried out, and he took notice of their distress.
45
For their sake he remembered his covenant, and because of his great love he relented.
46
He made all their oppressors feel sorry for them.
47
Save us, O LORD our God, and bring us back from among the nations, so that we may be thankful and praise your holy name.
48
Praise the LORD, the God of Israel; praise him now and forever! Let everyone say, "Amen!" Praise the LORD!