Deuteronomy 6:16

Detailed Stipulations

¹⁵ for the Lord your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise, the Lord your God will become angry with you and wipe you off the face of the earth. ¹⁶ Do not test the Lord your God as you tested Him at Massah. ¹⁷ Carefully observe the commands of the Lord your God, the decrees and statutes He has commanded you.

Tempt the Lord

Test The Lord

Jehovah

Massah

Matthew 4:7

Jesus told him, “It is also written: Do not test the Lord your God.”

Luke 4:12

And Jesus answered him, “It is said: Do not test the Lord your God.”

Exodus 17:7

He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites complained, and because they tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”

Exodus 17:2

So the people complained to Moses, “Give us water to drink.”

“Why are you complaining to me?” Moses replied to them. “Why are you testing the Lord?”

1 Corinthians 10:9

Let us not test Christ as some of them did and were destroyed by snakes.

Hebrews 3:8-9

do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,

Numbers 20:3-4

The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished when our brothers perished before the Lord.

Numbers 20:13

These are the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the Lord, and He showed His holiness to them.

Numbers 21:4-5

Then they set out from Mount Hor by way of the Red Sea to bypass the land of Edom, but the people became impatient because of the journey.

Psalm 95:8-9

Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah,
as on that day at Massah in the wilderness