Massah

*Massah = "temptation" (also 'Meribah')

the place in the wilderness where the Israelites tested Jehovah

 

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 יְהֹוָה saying, Is יְהֹוָה  among us, or not?

 

Deuteronomy 6:

16. Ye shall not tempt יְהֹוָה your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

 

Deuteronomy 9:

22. And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked יְהֹוָה to wrath.

 

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;

 

Meribah

 

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 יְהֹוָה saying, Is יְהֹוָה among us, or not?

 

Numbers 20:

13. This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with יְהֹוָה and he was sanctified in them.

24. Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.

 

Numbers 27:
14. For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Sin/Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Sin/Zin.

 

Deuteronomy 32:

51. Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.

 

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;

 

Psalms 81:

7. Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.