King James Version
Psalms 95:9 in the King James Version says “When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 95 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.”
Psalms 95:9 · KJV
For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: provocation: Heb. contention
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:
Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest. that: Heb. if they enter into my rest
KJV Study — Public Domain
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“When your fathers”
H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
“me proved”
H974to test (especially metals); generally and figuratively, to investigate
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“me and saw”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
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