Verse 9

And let us not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.

Referenced Verses

  • Num 21:5-6 : 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.” 6 So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people; many people of Israel died.
  • 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?”
  • Ps 78:18 : 18 They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.
  • 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?”
  • Ps 78:56 : 56 Yet they challenged and defied God Most High, and did not obey his commands.
  • Ps 95:9 : 9 where your ancestors challenged my authority, and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.
  • Ps 106:14 : 14 In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving for meat; they challenged God in the wastelands.
  • 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. 10 “Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said,‘Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.’ 11 “As I swore in my anger,‘They will never enter my rest!’”
  • Deut 6:16 : 16 Exhortation to Obey the Lord Exclusively You must not put the LORD your God to the test as you did at Massah.
  • Exod 23:20-21 : 20 The Angel of the Presence“I am going to send an angel before you to protect you as you journey and to bring you into the place that I have prepared. 21 Take heed because of him, and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgressions, for my name is in him.
  • Heb 10:28-30 : 28 Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for the Son of God, and profanes the blood of the covenant that made him holy, and insults the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know the one who said,“Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” and again,“The Lord will judge his people.”