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Psalms 95:9
9For there your ancestors tested and tried my patience, even though they saw everything I did.
Psalms 95:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
- New International Version (NIV)where your ancestors tested me; they tried me, though they had seen what I did.
- English Standard Version (ESV)when your fathers put me to the test and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.
- New King James Version (NKJV)When your fathers tested Me; They tried Me, though they saw My work.
Context of Psalms 95:9
7for he is our God. We are the people he watches over, the flock under his care. If only you would listen to his voice today! 8The Lord says, “Don’t harden your hearts as Israel did at Meribah, as they did at Massah in the wilderness. For there your ancestors tested and tried my patience, even though they saw everything I did. 10For forty years I was angry with them, and I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts turn away from me. They refuse to do what I tell them.’ 11So in my anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter my place of rest.’”
Read all of Psalms 95Psalms 95:9 word by word
אֲשֶׁ֣ר נִ֭סּוּנִי אֲבוֹתֵיכֶ֑ם בְּ֝חָנ֗וּנִי גַּם־רָא֥וּ פָעֳלִֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 95:9
- Psalms 78:17Yet they kept on sinning against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
- 1 Corinthians 10:9Nor should we put Christ to the test, as some of them did and then died from snakebites.
- Numbers 14:22not one of these people will ever enter that land. They have all seen my glorious presence and the miraculous signs I performed both in Egypt and in the wilderness, but again and again they have tested me by refusing to listen to my voice.
- Matthew 11:20Then Jesus began to denounce the towns where he had done so many of his miracles, because they hadn’t repented of their sins and turned to God.
- John 15:24If I hadn’t done such miraculous signs among them that no one else could do, they would not be guilty. But as it is, they have seen everything I did, yet they still hate me and my Father.
Commentaries on Psalms 95:9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9When your fathers tempted me - Tried me, by their insolence, unbelief, and blasphemy. They proved me - they had full proof of my power to save and to destroy. There they saw my works - they saw that nothing was too hard for God.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9When your fathers - Your ancestors. See this verse explained in the notes on Hebrews 3:9. Tempted me - Tried me; tried my patience, to see how much I would bear. This does not mean, as it commonly does now with us, to place inducements before one to lead him into sin, but to try one - to put his patience to the test. This they did, in the case referred to, by their obduracy and evil conduct. Proved me - See the notes at Hebrews 3:9. “And saw my work.”…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9Israel's ancestors saw the Lord's wonders but did not understand their importance (see Psalm 92:5–6).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 8-118-11. warning against neglect; and this is sustained by citing the melancholy fate of their rebellious ancestors, whose provoking insolence is described by quoting the language of God's complaint (Nu 14:11) of their conduct at Meribah and Massah, names given (Ex 17:7) to commemorate their strife and contention with Him (Psa 78:18, 41).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 95
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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