Deuteronomy 8:2-3
8:2 Remember the whole way by which he
has brought you these forty years through the desert
so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.
8:3 So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna.
He did this to teach you
that humankind
cannot live by bread
alone, but also by everything that comes from the
Lord’s mouth.
Deuteronomy 8:16
8:16 fed you in the desert with manna (which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you
and eventually bring good to you.
Exodus 17:7
17:7 He called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contending of the Israelites and because of their testing the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”
Numbers 20:13
20:13 These are the waters of Meribah, because the Israelites contended with the Lord, and his holiness was maintained among them.
Psalms 81:7
81:7 In your distress you called out and I rescued you.
I answered you from a dark thundercloud.
I tested you at the waters of Meribah. (Selah)