2 And you must remember all the way that Jehovah your God made you walk these forty years in the wilderness,+ in order to humble you,+ to put you to the test+ so as to know what was in your heart,+ as to whether you would keep his commandments or not.

31 And thus it was that by the spokesmen of the princes of Babylon*+ that were sent to him+ to inquire about the portent+ that had happened in the land, the [true] God left him+ to put him to the test,+ to get to know everything in his heart.+