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Psalms 95:9–10

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When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
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From verse 9

  1. Numbers 14:22Rank 1 from verse 9
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    22Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

  2. 1 Corinthians 10:9Rank 2 from verse 9
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    9Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

  3. Psalms 78:56Rank 3 from verse 9
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    56Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

  4. Psalms 78:17–18Rank 4 from verse 9
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    17And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.

    18And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

  5. Psalms 78:40–41Rank 5 from verse 9
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    40How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

    41Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

From verse 10

  1. Hebrews 3:17Rank 1 from verse 10
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    17But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

  2. Hebrews 3:9–10Rank 2 from verse 10
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    9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

    10Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

  3. Proverbs 1:22–29Rank 3 from verse 10
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    22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

    23Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

    24¶ Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

    25But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

    26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

    27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

    28Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

    29For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:

  4. Acts 13:18Rank 4 from verse 10
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    18And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

  5. Isaiah 63:17Rank 5 from verse 10
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    17¶ O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

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Psalms 95:9

COMBINED MEANING

your

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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.

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tempted

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of tempt. Sense 1: To try, test, put to the test. Sense 2: To entice toward evil.

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proved

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of prove, meaning to test, try, examine, or establish as true by evidence.

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work

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Sense 1: Labour, occupation, an assigned task, or service. Sense 2: An action, deed, operation, effect, product, thing made, or manner of workmanship. Sense 3: To labour, act, operate, perform, make, produce, accomplish, or bring about.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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Psalms 95:10

COMBINED MEANING

long

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Sense 1: Extending a great distance or duration. Sense 2: To desire earnestly.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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grieved

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of grieve, meaning to feel pain of mind or heart; to be in pain on account of an evil; to sorrow; to mourn.

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people

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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.

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err

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To stray, wander, depart, or be led away from the right way, truth, command, knowledge, or judgment; to be mistaken or wrong.

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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COMBINED MEANING

heart

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Sense 1: The bodily organ. Sense 2: The inward person: the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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8Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

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10Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

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11Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

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