Verse 16
16. Ye shall not tempt the Lord This is one of the passages quoted by our Lord in the temptation in the wilderness. Matthew 4:7. “And as he quoted Deuteronomy as a part of the sacred Scriptures, and as it was then held that is, as the work of Moses so we have here again his endorsement of the Mosaic authorship of this book.” LANGE’S Deuteronomy, p. 96.
As ye tempted him in Massah They had there tempted God by their murmuring and unbelief. The reference is to Exodus 17:1-7. The place was Rephidim, but Moses called it Massah and Meribah, “because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord.” “Massah” is derived from a verb which means to tempt; “Meribah,” from one that means to strive. Rephidim was the place of tempting and striving.
In the concluding verses the teaching of the commandments to their children, already enjoined in the seventh verse, is more fully enforced. The people were to instruct their children as to the significance of the requirements of Jehovah.
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