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Psalms 95:9
where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God speaks through the psalmist to the assembly, recalling the wilderness generation at Meribah and Massah. The words — נִסּוּ/נִי (nisu/ni) literally renders "they tested Me," with the first-person suffix explicitly marking God as the object of the ancestors' examination. The thread — The motif of testing God despite witnessing His works runs through Numbers 14:22, 1 Corinthians 10:9, and Psalms 78:56. Why it lands — The text demands that readers cease repeating the wilderness generation's pattern of testing God after seeing His deeds, recognizing that such examination hardens the heart and provokes divine anger.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
Cross-references
- Numbers 14:22 not 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—
- 1 Corinthians 10:9 We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.
- Psalms 78:56 But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
- Psalms 78:17 But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
- Psalms 78:40 How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
- Matthew 11:20 Then Jesus began to denounce the cities in which most of His miracles had been performed, because they did not repent.
- John 15:24 If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.