Tried

When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue Joseph from their hands. “Let us not take his life,” he said.

All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.

The magicians tried to produce gnats using their magic arts, but they could not. And the gnats remained on man and beast.

Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?

Such a prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he has advocated rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery; he has tried to turn you from the way in which the LORD your God has commanded you to walk. So you must purge the evil from among you.

David strapped his sword over the tunic and tried to walk, but he was not accustomed to them. “I cannot walk in these,” David said to Saul. “I am not accustomed to them.” So David took them off.

Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear. But David eluded him and the spear struck the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.

When this was reported to Saul, he sent more messengers, but they began to prophesy as well. So Saul tried again and sent messengers a third time, and even they began to prophesy.

O my God, remember Tobiah and Sanballat for what they have done, and also Noadiah the prophetess and the other prophets who tried to intimidate me.

If only Job were tried to the utmost for answering like a wicked man.

You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.

When I tried to understand all this, it was troublesome in my sight

…where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.

When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayer be regarded as sin.

“We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”

Because of the indecency of your uncleanness I tried to cleanse you, but you would not be purified from your filthiness. You will not be pure again until My wrath against you has subsided.

But John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and do You come to me?”

John said to Him, “Teacher, we saw someone else driving out demons in Your name, and we tried to stop him, because he does not accompany us.”

At daybreak, Jesus went out to a solitary place, and the crowds were looking for Him. They came to Him and tried to keep Him from leaving.

Just then some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. They tried to bring him inside to set him before Jesus,

“Master,” said John, “we saw someone driving out demons in Your name, and we tried to stop him, because he does not accompany us.”

Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him. Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

So they tried to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.

At this, they tried again to seize Him, but He escaped their grasp.

“Rabbi,” they replied, “the Jews just tried to stone You, and You are going back there?”

From then on, Pilate tried to release Him, but the Jews kept shouting, “If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who declares himself a king is defying Caesar.”

The next day he came upon two Israelites who were fighting, and he tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’

When Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

He talked and debated with the Grecian Jews, but they tried to kill him.

But Elymas the sorcerer (for that is what his name means) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul from the faith.

And when they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not permit them.

Now there were some itinerant Jewish exorcists who tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those with evil spirits. They would say, “I command you by Jesus, whom Paul proclaims.”

…and he even tried to desecrate the temple; so we seized him.

Paul replied, “I am standing before the judgment seat of Caesar, where I ought to be tried. I have done nothing wrong to the Jews, as you yourself know very well.

Since I was at a loss as to how to investigate these matters, I asked if he was willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried there on these charges.

I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me.

For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how severely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.

They only heard the account: “The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”

For we wanted to come to you—indeed I, Paul, tried again and again—but Satan obstructed us.

…where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.

By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to follow, they were drowned.