Exodus 17:2

You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.”

These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.

Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.

About Levi he said, “Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah.

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land?

The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.

The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!

At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to wrath.

They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.

But Ahaz said, “I won’t ask. I won’t tempt Yahweh.”

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’ ”

For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.

This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

Let’s not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

For who, when they heard, rebelled? Wasn’t it all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?

The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?

But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed Yahweh’s people!”

because in the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, to honor me as holy at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)

You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.

Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.

There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.

Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

The people were thirsty for water there; so the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”

He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”

because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against Yahweh! What is Aaron that you complain against him?”

The people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, there is no water, and our soul loathes this disgusting food!”

Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies,

Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’ ”

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

Jesus answering, said to him, “It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ”

But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so they also do to you.

They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,

The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him.

The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ He divided his livelihood between them.

They said to them, “May Yahweh look at you and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us!”

All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!

But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” Samuel prayed to Yahweh.