Tempt Jehovah

Nacah 5254 Yehovah 3068  – 4 occurrences

(with untranslated particle Heb. Morph # 186)

 

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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?