'Testing' in the Bible
You shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.
you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for the Lord your God is testing you to find out if you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
They were for testing Israel, to find out if they would obey the commandments of the Lord, which He had commanded their fathers through Moses.
For there is a testing; and what if even the rod which despises will be no more?” declares the Lord God.