Psalms 78 · Verse 10

Psalms 78:10

They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
Psalms 78:10, King James Version

Psalms 78:10 in other translations

BSBThey failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.
WEBThey didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law.
ASVThey kept not the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law;
YLTThey have not kept the covenant of God, And in His law they have refused to walk,
DARBYThey kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
BBEThey were not ruled by God's word, and they would not go in the way of his law;
WebsterThey kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

What does Psalms 78:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 78:9-11

9-11. The privileges of the first-born which belonged to Joseph (1Ch 5:1, 2) were assigned to Ephraim by Jacob (Ge 48:1). The supremacy of the tribe thus intimated was recognized by its position (in the marching of the nation to Canaan) next to the ark (Nu 2:18-24), by the selection of the first permanent locality for the ark within its borders at Shiloh, and by the extensive and fertile province given for its…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 10 They kept not the covenant; of God - They abandoned his worship, both moral and ritual. Thev acted like the Ephraimites in the above case, who threw down their bows and arrows, and ran away.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 78:9-39

Sin 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 God's goodness and man's badness. The Lord hears all our murmurings and distrusts, and is much displeased. Those that will not believe the power of God's mercy, shall feel the fire of his indignation. Those cannot be said to trust in God's salvation as their…

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Psalms 78:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

לֹ֣אlo'notH3808
שָׁ֭מְרוּSham.ruthey keptH8104
בְּרִ֣יתbe.Rit[the] covenant ofH1285
אֱלֹהִ֑ים'E.lo.HimGodH430
וּ֝בְתוֹרָת֗וֹu.ve.to.ra.Toand in law hisH8451
מֵאֲנ֥וּme.'a.Nuthey refusedH3985
לָלֶֽכֶת\׃la.Le.khetto walkH1980

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 78:10

  • Deuteronomy 31:20

    For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.

  • Nehemiah 9:26-29

    Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations. Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies. But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies; And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

  • Deuteronomy 31:16

    And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

  • Judges 2:10-12

    And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the Lord, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel. And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim: And they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the Lord to anger.

  • 2 Kings 17:14-15

    Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the Lord their God. And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.

  • Jeremiah 31:32

    Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
De 31:16,20; Jud 2:10-12; 2Ki 17:14,15; Ne 9:26-29; Jer 31:32

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 78:9

    The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

  • Psalms 78:10

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

  • Psalms 78:11

    And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.

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Psalms 78:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
No guardaron el pacto de Dios, ni quisieron andar en su ley:
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Ils n’ont pas gardé l’alliance de Dieu, et ont refusé de marcher selon sa loi;
German
Elberfelder 1871
Sie hielten nicht den Bund Gottes und weigerten sich, in seinem Gesetz zu wandeln;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Ne forte dicant in gentibus: Ubi est Deus eorum? et innotescat in nationibus coram oculis nostris ultio sanguinis servorum tuorum qui effusus est.