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Psalm 106:25
but murmured in their tents, and didn’t listen to the LORD’s voice.
23Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.
24Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,
25but murmured in their tents, and didn’t listen to the LORD’s voice.
26Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,
27that he would overthrow their offspring among the nations, and scatter them in the lands.
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The murmuring inside Israel’s tents exposes a refusal to listen, making speech at home part of the psalm’s account of unbelief.
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Philippians 2:14Do all things without complaining and arguing,Philippians commands conduct without complaining, while the psalm recounts Israel’s murmuring alongside their refusal to listen to God.
1 Corinthians 10:10Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.Both passages recount grumbling among God’s people, with judgment named in Corinthians and in the psalm’s surrounding verses.
Exodus 16:2The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;Exodus names Moses and Aaron as targets of Israel’s wilderness murmuring; the psalm connects murmuring with refusing God’s voice.
Deuteronomy 1:27You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because the LORD hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to …Both locate the murmuring in Israel’s tents; Deuteronomy records the accusation that the LORD had brought them out to destroy them.
Deuteronomy 1:26–27Yet you wouldn’t go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God.Deuteronomy describes refusal to go up as rebellion against God’s command; the psalm describes refusal to listen to his voice.
Numbers 14:22because all those men who have seen my glory and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not …Both passages name Israel’s failure to listen to God’s voice; Numbers adds that they had seen his glory and signs.
Hebrews 3:7–8Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,Hearing God’s voice is the shared concern: Hebrews addresses hearing today, while the psalm recounts Israel’s refusal to listen.
Psalm 95:7–9for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!Psalm 95 urges God’s people to hear his voice today; Psalm 106 records a time when they refused.
Hebrews 3:15while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”Hebrews links hearing God’s voice with a warning against rebellion; the psalm recounts murmuring and refusal to hear that voice.
Jude 1:16These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.Jude describes murmurers whose conduct follows their lusts; the psalm describes murmurers who refused to listen to God.
Numbers 11:10Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and the LORD’s anger burned greatly; and Moses was displeased.Both locate Israel’s distress or discontent at their tents, though Numbers describes weeping and the psalm names murmuring.
Numbers 14:1–4All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.Numbers records the congregation crying together that night; the psalm describes murmuring, so their shared thread is Israel’s voiced discontent.
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This warning reaches into the home. Israel’s murmuring went with rejection of God’s word, and his voice deserved their trust and obedience.
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