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King James Version

Psalms 78:29

So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   God Continued...;   Ingratitude;   Miracles;   Wicked (People);   Worldliness;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   The Topic Concordance - Sin;   Trust;   Unbelief;   Wrath;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Time;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Balaam;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Salvation;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Anger (Wrath) of God;   Asaph;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Quail;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Vegetarianism;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
And they ate and were well filled, for he gave them what they craved.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So they did eate and were well filled: for he gaue them their desire.
Christian Standard Bible®
The people ate and were completely satisfied,for he gave them what they craved.
Hebrew Names Version
So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.
Easy-to-Read Version
The people ate until they were full. God had given them what they wanted.
Amplified Bible
So they ate and were well filled, He gave them what they craved.
American Standard Version
So they did eat, and were well filled; And he gave them their own desire.
Contemporary English Version
God gave his people all they wanted, and each of them ate until they were full.
Complete Jewish Bible
So they ate till they were satisfied; he gave them what they craved.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So they did eat, and were well filled; and He gave them that which they craved.
King James Version (1611)
So they did eate, & were well filled: for he gaue them their owne desire.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So they ate, and were completely filled; and he gave them their desire.
English Revised Version
So they did eat, and were well filled; and he gave them that they lusted after.
Berean Standard Bible
So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them what they craved.
Lexham English Bible
So they ate and were well filled, and he brought about what they craved.
Literal Translation
They ate and were filled full; for their own lust He brought to them.
New Century Version
So the people ate and became very full. God had given them what they wanted.
New English Translation
They ate until they were stuffed; he gave them what they desired.
New King James Version
So they ate and were well filled, For He gave them their own desire.
New Living Translation
The people ate their fill. He gave them what they craved.
New Life Bible
So they ate until they were full. He gave them what they wanted.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So they did eat and were abundantly filled, When, what they longed for, he had brought them: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
(77-29) So they did eat, and were filled exceedingly, and he gave them their desire:
George Lamsa Translation
So they did eat and were well filled; for he gave them their own desire.
Good News Translation
So the people ate and were satisfied; God gave them what they wanted.
New American Standard Bible
So they ate and were well filled, And He satisfied their longing.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
So they dyd eate and were wel filled, for he gaue them their owne desire: neuerthelesse they were not alienated from their lust.
New Revised Standard
And they ate and were well filled, for he gave them what they craved.
Darby Translation
And they did eat, and were well filled; for that they lusted after, he brought to them.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei eeten, and weren fillid greetli, and he brouyte her desire to hem;
Young's Literal Translation
And they eat, and are greatly satisfied, And their desire He bringeth to them.
World English Bible
So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.
Revised Standard Version
And they ate and were well filled, for he gave them what they craved.
Update Bible Version
So they ate, and were well filled; And he gave them their own desire.
Webster's Bible Translation
So they ate, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
Bible in Basic English
So they had food and were full; for he gave them their desire;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He let it fall amoge their tetes roude aboute their habitacios.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So they ate and were well filled, And their desire He gave to them.
Legacy Standard Bible
So they ate and were very satisfied,And their desire He brought to them.

Contextual Overview

9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. 10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; 11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them. 12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap. 14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. 15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths. 16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. 17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness. 18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

for he gave: Psalms 106:15, Numbers 11:20

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 12:13 - have desired

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So they did eat, and were well filled,..... Or "exceedingly filled" m, or too much, as some versions render it; they eat to excess, not merely to satisfy nature, but to gratify their sensual appetite: gluttony is a sin; it is an abuse of the creatures; it hurts the body by filling it with gross humours, and bringing diseases on it; it is injurious to the mind; the heart may be overcharged by it; it disposes it to sin; it leads to impiety, to atheism, and disbelief of a future state, which often go along with it, and ends in destruction, which is the case of those whose god is their belly:

for he gave them their own desire; or their lust n, what they lusted after, flesh; and they had as much of it as they would, though this was given in judgment; and a sad thing it is when God gives men a fulness of this world's things, and leaves them to the abuse of them, or sends leanness into their souls, and gives them up to their own hearts' lusts.

m וישבעו מאד "et saturati sunt valde", Pagninus, Montanus, &c. n תאותם "concupiscentiam ipsorum", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

So they did eat, and were well filled - The word rendered “well” here is intensive. It means that they were abundantly satisfied; that there was no lack; that they had the most ample supply.

For he gave them their own desire - He gave them exactly what they asked. He gave them flesh to eat as they had demanded; and he gave it to them in such quantities that no one could say that he had not enough.


 
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