Psalms 95:9
where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
BSB
ASV
When your fathers tempted me, Proved me, and saw my work.
KJV
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
When your fathers tempted me. As far as they could do so they tempted God to change his usual way, and to do their sinful bidding, and though he cannot be tempted of evil, and will never yield to wicked requests, yet their intent was the same, and their guilt was none the less. God's way is perfect, and when we would have him alter it to please us, we are guilty of tempting him; and the fact that we do so in vain, while it magnifies the Lord's holiness, by no means excuses our guilt.
26, 32 . [2.] The aggravation of this sin was that they saw God's work; they saw what he had done for them in bringing them out of Egypt, nay, what he was now doing for them every day, this day, in the bread he rained from heaven for them and the water out of the rock that followed them, than which they could not have more unquestionable evidences of God's presence with them.
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1 Corinthians 10:9We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.
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and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”
They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.
do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,
So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?”
Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.
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Psalms 78:56But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
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And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.
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Numbers 14:22not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
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Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.
And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.