“when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their strongest, and struck down the young men of Israel.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Psalms 78 contains 72 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.