Psalm 95:8-9

The LORD says, "Don't harden your hearts as Israel did at Meribah,

    as they did at Massah in the wilderness.

For there your ancestors tested and tried my patience,

    even though they saw everything I did."

 

The LORD says, "Don't harden your hearts as Israel did at Meribah, as they did at Massah in the wilderness."

Exodus 17:7  Moses named the place Massah (which means "test") and Meribah (which means "arguing") because the people of Israel argued with Moses and tested the LORD by saying, "Is the LORD here with us or not?"  

[see verses 1-7]

Numbers 20:13  This place was known as the waters of Meribah (which means "arguing") because there the people of Israel argued with the LORD, and there he demonstrated his holiness among them.  [see verses 1-13]

Deuteronomy 6:16  "You must not test the LORD your God as you did when you complained at Massah."  [see all chapter 6]

Mark 10:5  But Jesus responded, "He wrote this commandment only as a concession to your hard hearts." [Deuteronomy 24:1-3], [see verses 2-12]

Hebrews 3:7-8  That is why the Holy Spirit says,

    "Today when you hear his voice,

        don't harden your hearts

    as Israel did when they rebelled,

        when they tested me in the wilderness."  [see all chapter 3]

 

"For there your ancestors tested and tried my patience, even though they saw everything I did." 

Numbers 14:20-22  Then the LORD said, "I will pardon them as you requested. But as surely as I live, and as surely as the earth is filled with the LORD's glory, not one of these people will ever enter that land. They have all seen my glorious presence and the miraculous signs I performed both in Egypt and in the wilderness, but again and again they have tested me by refusing to listen to my voice."  [see all chapter 14]

Deuteronomy 33:8  Moses said this about the tribe of Levi:

    "O LORD you have given your Thummim and Urim--the sacred lots--

        to your faithful servants the Levites.

    You put them to the test at Massah

        and struggled with them at the waters of Meribah."  [see verses 8-11]

Psalm 78:40-41  

Oh, how often they rebelled against him in the wilderness

    and grieved his heart in that dry wasteland.

Again and again they tested God's patience

    and provoked the Holy One of Israel.  [see all Psalm 78]

Hebrews 3:9  

"There your ancestors tested and tried my patience,

    even though they saw my miracles for forty years."  [see all chapter 3] 

 

[brackets are mine]

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