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GOD TEMPTED ABRAHAM"And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of." (Gen. 22:1-2)The phrase “God did tempt Abraham” throws all the Bible critics into a panic. Immediately, they run to James 1:13 and remind us that God doesn’t tempt any man, so the verse “should” have said that God “tried” or “tested” Abraham. What they fail to point out is that the same chapter also uses the word “tried” and “trying” interchangibly with “tempt” and “temptation” (James 1:3, 12). This is further confirmed in Hebrews 11:17: “By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac . . .” So, we didn’t need a new version, only a concordance. God most certainly did tempt Abraham, in the sense that He provided a sitiuation where Satan had the opportunity to tempt the man to disobey God. If you have a problem with that, you’ll really have a problem with I Chronicles 21:1 and II Samuel 24:1.