Genesis 22:1
The Sacrifice of Isaac
1After these things aGod tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”1 Samuel 16:7
7But the Lord said to Samuel, b“Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, cbut the Lord looks on the heart.”Job 23:10
10But he dknows ethe way that I ftake;when he has gtried me, I shall come out as gold.
Psalms 7:9
9Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,and may you establish the righteous—
you who htest ithe minds and hearts, ▼
▼Hebrew the hearts and kidneys
O righteous God!
Psalms 66:10
10For you, O God, have ktested us;you have tried us as silver is tried.
Jeremiah 6:27-30
27 “I have made you la tester of metals among my people,that you may know and mtest their ways.
28 nThey are all stubbornly rebellious,
ogoing about with slanders;
they are pbronze and iron;
all of them act corruptly.
29The qbellows blow fiercely;
the lead is consumed by the fire;
rin vain the refining goes on,
for the wicked are not removed.
30 sRejected silver they are called,
for the Lord has rejected them.”
Malachi 3:2-3
2But twho can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For uhe is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap. 3He will sit vas a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring wofferings in righteousness to the Lord. ▼▼Or and they will belong to the Lord, bringers of an offering in righteousness
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