Psalms 78:10

New Living Translation

They did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by his instructions.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
They did not keep the covenant of GodAnd refused to walk in His law;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
They did not keep the covenant of God And refused to walk in His law;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
They kept not the couenaunt of God: and they woulde not walke in his law.

Darby Translation
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

New King James Version
They did not keep the covenant of God; They refused to walk in His law,

Literal Translation
They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to walk in His Law.

Easy-to-Read Version
They did not keep their agreement with God. They refused to obey his teachings.

World English Bible
They didn't keep the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law.

King James Version (1611)
They kept not the couenant of God: and refused to walke in his Law:

King James Version
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Like as the children of Ephraim, which beynge harnessed and carienge bowes, turned them selues backe in the tyme of battayll.

Amplified Bible
They did not keep the covenant of God And refused to walk according to His law;

American Standard Version
They kept not the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law;

Bible in Basic English
They were not ruled by God's word, and they would not go in the way of his law;

Update Bible Version
They did not keep the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law;

Webster's Bible Translation
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

New English Translation
They did not keep their covenant with God, and they refused to obey his law.

Contemporary English Version
They broke their agreement with God, and they turned their backs on his teaching.

Complete Jewish Bible
They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to live by his Torah.

Geneva Bible (1587)
They kept not the couenant of God, but refused to walke in his Lawe,

George Lamsa Translation
For they kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

Hebrew Names Version
They didn't keep the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in His law;

New Life Bible
They did not keep the agreement of God. And they would not walk in His Law.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They kept not the covenant of God, and would not walk in his law.

English Revised Version
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

Berean Standard Bible
They failed to keep God's covenant and refused to live by His law.

New Revised Standard
They did not keep God's covenant, but refused to walk according to his law.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
They kept not the covenant of God, And, in his law, refused to walk;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(77-10) They kept not the covenant of God: and in his law they would not walk.

Lexham English Bible
They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to go in his law.

English Standard Version
They did not keep God's covenant, but refused to walk according to his law.

New American Standard Bible
They did not keep the covenant of God And refused to walk in His Law;

New Century Version
They didn't keep their agreement with God and refused to live by his teachings.

Good News Translation
They did not keep their covenant with God; they refused to obey his law.

Christian Standard Bible®
They did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by His law.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei kepten not the testament of God; and thei nolden go in his lawe.

Young's Literal Translation
They have not kept the covenant of God, And in His law they have refused to walk,

Revised Standard Version
They did not keep God's covenant, but refused to walk according to his law.

Contextual Overview

⁹ The warriors of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned their backs and fled on the day of battle. ¹⁰ They did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by his instructions. ¹¹ They forgot what he had done— the great wonders he had shown them, ¹² the miracles he did for their ancestors on the plain of Zoan in the land of Egypt. ¹³ For he divided the sea and led them through, making the water stand up like walls! ¹⁴ In the daytime he led them by a cloud, and all night by a pillar of fire. ¹⁵ He split open the rocks in the wilderness to give them water, as from a gushing spring. ¹⁶ He made streams pour from the rock, making the waters flow down like a river! ¹⁷ Yet they kept on sinning against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert. ¹⁸ They stubbornly tested God in their hearts, demanding the foods they craved.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 31:16, Deuteronomy 31:20, Judges 2:10-12, 2 Kings 17:14, 2 Kings 17:15, Nehemiah 9:26-29, Jeremiah 31:32

Reciprocal: Exodus 16:28 - General 2 Kings 10:31 - walk 1 Chronicles 16:17 - for a law Psalms 78:57 - they were Ezekiel 5:6 - for they Ezekiel 11:12 - General Hebrews 8:9 - they continued

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They kept not the covenant of God,.... Either the covenant of circumcision, which was neglected during their travels through the wilderness, Joshua 5:5 or the covenant made with the people of Israel at Mount Sinai, Exodus 24:7 and this is to be understood not of the children of Ephraim only, but of the Israelites in general, who in many instances broke the covenant, and were not steadfast in it, Psalms 78:37,

Psalms 78:37- :

and refused to walk in his law; the law of God, which was given forth by him, by the disposition of angels, through the hands of a mediator, Moses, as a rule of their walk and conversation; but they refused to order their conversation according to it, being unwilling to be subject to it, but despised and cast it away; a sad instance of the corruption of human nature, and the depravity of man's will, boasted of for its freedom, yet what is common, and to be observed in all mankind.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They kept not the covenant of God - The covenant which God had made with the entire Hebrew people. They did not maintain their allegiance to Yahweh. Compare Deuteronomy 4:13, Deuteronomy 4:23; Deuteronomy 17:2.

And refused to walk in his law - Refused to obey his law. They rebelled against him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 78:10. They kept not the covenant of God — They abandoned his worship, both moral and ritual. They acted like the Ephraimites in the above case, who threw down their bows and arrows, and ran away.