Verse 9

We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and they were killed by snakes.

Other Translations

Referenced Verses

  • Num 21:5-6 : 5 The people spoke against God and Moses: 'Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, no water, and we detest this miserable food!' 6 Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died.
  • Exod 17:7 : 7 And he named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the LORD, saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?"
  • Ps 78:18 : 18 They tested God in their hearts by demanding the food they craved.
  • Exod 17:2 : 2 So the people quarreled with Moses, saying, "Give us water to drink." Moses replied to them, "Why are you quarreling with me? Why are you testing the LORD?"
  • Ps 78:56 : 56 But they tested and rebelled against God Most High and did not keep His decrees.
  • Ps 95:9 : 9 where your fathers tested Me; they tried Me, though they had seen My deeds.
  • Ps 106:14 : 14 In the wilderness, they craved intensely and tested God in the wasteland.
  • Heb 3:8-9 : 8 do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness, 9 where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw my works. 10 That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always wandering, and they have not known my ways.' 11 So I swore in my anger, 'They shall not enter my rest.'
  • Deut 6:16 : 16 Do not test the LORD your God as you did at Massah.
  • Exod 23:20-21 : 20 See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared. 21 Pay attention to him and listen to his voice. Do not rebel against him, for he will not forgive your rebellion, since my name is in him.
  • Heb 10:28-30 : 28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much more severe punishment do you think someone deserves who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, treated as unholy the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know Him who said, 'Vengeance is Mine; I will repay,' says the Lord. And again, 'The Lord will judge His people.'