Yet they tempted and provoked ... - They tried the patience of God, and provoked him to anger after they were peaceably settled in the promised land. See Judges 2:10. The object is to show that it was the character of the people that they were prone to depart from God. Compare Psalms 78:10, note; Psalms 78:17, note; Psalms 78:40, note.

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