Tempt Jehovah
Nacah 5254 Yehovah 3068 – 4 occurrences
(with
untranslated particle Heb. Morph # 186)
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Phrases
Exodus 17:2 Wherefore the
people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And
Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
Exodus 17:7 And he called
the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the
children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD
among us, or not?
Deuteronomy 6:16 Ye shall
not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
Isaiah 7:12 But Ahaz said,
I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
Other similar uses include:
Deuteronomy 33:8
And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy
holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst
strive at the waters of Meribah;
Psalm 78:18 And
they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. Psalm 78:41 Yea,
they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
Psalm 78:56 Yet
they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
Psalm 95:9 When
your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work
Psalm 106:14 But
lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
In the Greek, ekpeirazo kurios-3 uses
Matthew 4:7 Jesus
said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
Luke 4:12 And Jesus
answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
1 Corinthians 10:9 Neither let
us tempt (ekpeirazo) Christ, as some of them also tempted
(peirazo), and were destroyed of serpents.
Likewise:
Acts 5:9 Then Peter
said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of
the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at
the door, and shall carry thee out.
Acts 15:10 Now
therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which
neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?