The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 106:14

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness; literally, "lusted a lust." The expression is taken from Numbers 11:4, where it is translated in the Authorized Version by "fell a-lusting." The lust was for "flesh," and for "the fish, the cucumbers, the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic, which they did eat in Egypt freely" (Numbers 11:5).

And tempted God in the desert (comp. Psalms 78:18).

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