where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
Parallel translations
- WEB when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.
- KJV When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
- NKJV When your fathers tested Me; They tried Me, though they saw My work.
- NASB “When your fathers put Me to the test, They tested Me, though they had seen My work.
- NLT For there your ancestors tested and tried my patience, even though they saw everything I did.
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Quick answer
There Israel's fathers tested God though they had seen His works. Witnessing God's deeds is no guarantee of a believing heart.
Overview
The wilderness generation tested and provoked God despite having seen His mighty acts in Egypt and the desert. Their unbelief amid abundant evidence exposes the deep problem of the human heart. This warns that signs alone do not produce saving faith; only a heart softened by God truly trusts, as the gospel calls us to do (Hebrews 3:9; John 12:37).
Cross-references & the web
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- Num 14:22not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
- 1 Cor 10:9We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.
- Ps 78:56But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
- Ps 78:17–18But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
- Ps 78:40–41How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
- Matt 11:20–22Then Jesus began to denounce the cities in which most of His miracles had been performed, because they did not repent.
- John 15:24If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.
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