Psalms 78:19 KJV

Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

Old Words

What these words meant when the King James Bible was translated.

Matthew Henry

  • The history of IsraelSin dispirits men, and takes away the heart. Forgetfulness of God's works is the cause of disobedience to his laws. This narrative relates a struggle between...

Thompson Chains

Parallel Passages

  • Numbers 11:4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).

Cross References

  • Numbers 21:5 And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
  • Numbers 11:4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
  • Exodus 16:3 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
  • Exodus 16:8–10 And Moses said, This shall be, when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD. …
  • Numbers 11:13 Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

From OpenBible.info, most relevant first.

Topics

Bible Dictionary

  • God(A.S. and Dutch God; Dan. Gud; Ger. Gott), the name of the Divine Being. It is the rendering (1) of the Hebrew ’El, from a word meaning...

Hebrew and Strong’s

  • Yea, they spake וַיְדַבְּרוּ waydabbĕrû דָבַר Verb · piel sequential imperfect, third person masculine plural · with and
  • against God בֵּאלֹהִים bēʾlōhîm אֱלֹהִים Noun · masculine plural · with preposition
  • they said אָמְרוּ ʾāmĕrû אָמַר Verb · qal perfect, third person common plural
  • Can הֲיוּכַל hăyûkal יָכֹל Verb · qal imperfect, third person masculine singular · with question
  • God אֵל ʾēl אֵל Noun · masculine singular
  • furnish לַעֲרֹךְ laʿărōk עָרַךְ Verb · qal infinitive construct · with preposition
  • a table שֻׁלְחָן šulḥān שֻׁלְחָן Noun · masculine singular
  • in the wilderness בַּמִּדְבָּר bammidbār מִדְבָּר Noun · masculine singular · with preposition with the

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex, Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible · CC BY 4.0

Notes, marks, and bookmarks on this verse are in the KJV Bible app.