Deuteronomy 6:16
Exhortation to Obey the Lord Exclusively You must not put the LORD your God to the test as you did at Massah.
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- Luke 4:12 : 12 Jesus answered him,“It is said,‘You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.’”
- Exod 17:7 : 7 He called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contending of the Israelites and because of their testing the LORD, saying,“Is the LORD among us or not?”
- Matt 4:7 : 7 Jesus said to him,“Once again it is written:‘You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.’”
- Ps 95:8-9 : 8 He says,“Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness, 9 where your ancestors challenged my authority, and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.
- Exod 17:2 : 2 So the people contended with Moses, and they said,“Give us water to drink!” Moses said to them,“Why do you contend with me? Why do you test the LORD?”
- Heb 3:8-9 : 8 “Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness. 9 “There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.
- 1 Cor 10:9 : 9 And let us not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.
- Num 20:3-4 : 3 The people contended with Moses, saying,“If only we had died when our brothers died before the LORD! 4 Why have you brought up the LORD’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?
- Num 20:13 : 13 These are the waters of Meribah, because the Israelites contended with the LORD, and his holiness was maintained among them.
- Num 21:4-5 : 4 Fiery Serpents Then they traveled from Mount Hor by the road to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom, but the people became impatient along the way. 5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses,“Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we detest this worthless food.”
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22 Moreover, you continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.
23 And when he sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you,“Go up and possess the land I have given you,” you rebelled against the LORD your God and would neither believe nor obey him.
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17 Keep his commandments very carefully, as well as the stipulations and statutes he commanded you to observe.
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12 Jesus answered him,“It is said,‘You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.’”
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4 You must not worship the LORD your God the way they worship.
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12 be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of Egypt, that place of slavery.
13 You must revere the LORD your God, serve him, and take oaths using only his name.
14 You must not go after other gods, those of the surrounding peoples,
15 for the LORD your God, who is present among you, is a jealous God and his anger will erupt against you and remove you from the land.
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7 Jesus said to him,“Once again it is written:‘You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.’”
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9 And let us not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.
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7 He called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contending of the Israelites and because of their testing the LORD, saying,“Is the LORD among us or not?”
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7 The History of Israel’s Stubbornness Remember– don’t ever forget– how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness; from the time you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place you were constantly rebelling against him.
8 At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.
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14 In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving for meat; they challenged God in the wastelands.
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56 Yet they challenged and defied God Most High, and did not obey his commands.
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8 He says,“Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,
9 where your ancestors challenged my authority, and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.
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6 These things happened as examples for us, so that we will not crave evil things as they did.
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2 Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the wilderness so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.
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6 Do not pay allegiance to other gods and worship and serve them. Do not make me angry by the things that you do. Then I will not cause you any harm.’
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10 Then the LORD said to Moses,
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18 They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.
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8 “Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.
9 “There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.
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22 For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me,
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32 However, through all this you did not have confidence in the LORD your God,
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1 Trespass by Deception and False Oath(5:20) Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
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17 You must not make yourselves molten gods.
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4 Do not turn to idols, and you must not make for yourselves gods of cast metal. I am the LORD your God.
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16 fed you in the wilderness with manna(which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.
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6 The Ten Commandments“I am the LORD your God, he who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the place of slavery.
7 You must not have any other gods besides me.
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26 Disobedience at Kadesh Barnea You were not willing to go up, however, but instead rebelled against the LORD your God.
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2 So the people contended with Moses, and they said,“Give us water to drink!” Moses said to them,“Why do you contend with me? Why do you test the LORD?”
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41 But Moses said,“Why are you now transgressing the commandment of the LORD? It will not succeed!
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3 “You shall have no other gods before me.
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5 You must love the LORD your God with your whole mind, your whole being, and all your strength.
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9 There must be no other god among you. You must not worship a foreign god.
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6 Why harden your hearts like the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When God treated them harshly, didn’t the Egyptians send the Israelites on their way?
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12 You must set boundaries for the people all around, saying,‘Take heed to yourselves not to go up on the mountain nor touch its edge. Whoever touches the mountain will surely be put to death!
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16 This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the LORD your God:“Please do not make us hear the voice of the LORD our God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die.”
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22 You must not erect a sacred pillar, a thing the LORD your God detests.
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6 Events at Horeb The LORD our God spoke to us at Horeb and said,“You have stayed in the area of this mountain long enough.
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2 Do not add a thing to what I command you nor subtract from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am delivering to you.
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17 Then the anger of the LORD will erupt against you and he will close up the sky so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed from the good land that the LORD is about to give you.
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28 So the LORD said to Moses,“How long do you refuse to obey my commandments and my instructions?
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14 For in the wilderness of Zin when the community rebelled against me, you rebelled against my command to show me as holy before their eyes over the water– the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.”