Verse 2

So the people were angry with Moses, and said, Give us water for drinking. And Moses said, Why are you angry with me? and why do you put God to the test?

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 6:16 : 16 Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did in Massah.
  • Ps 78:41 : 41 Again they put God to the test, and gave pain to the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 7:12 : 12 But Ahaz said, I will not put the Lord to the test by making such a request.
  • Matt 4:7 : 7 Jesus said to him, Again it is in the Writings, You may not put the Lord your God to the test.
  • 1 Cor 10:9 : 9 And let us not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did, and came to their death by snakes.
  • Ps 78:18 : 18 Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire.
  • Heb 3:9 : 9 When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.
  • Ps 95:9 : 9 When your fathers put me to the test and saw my power and my work.
  • Ps 106:14 : 14 They gave way to their evil desires in the waste land, and put God to the test in the dry places.
  • Mal 3:15 : 15 And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.
  • Ps 78:56 : 56 But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;
  • Exod 17:7 : 7 And he gave that place the name Massah and Meribah, because the children of Israel were angry, and because they put the Lord to the test, saying, Is the Lord with us or not?
  • Num 14:22 : 22 Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;
  • Num 20:2-5 : 2 And there was no water for the people: and they came together against Moses and against Aaron. 3 And the people were angry with Moses and said, If only death had overtaken us when our brothers came to their death before the Lord! 4 Why have you taken the Lord's people into this waste, for death to come to us and to our cattle there? 5 Why have you made us come out of Egypt into this evil place? This is no place of seed or figs or vines or other fruits, and there is no water for drinking.
  • Num 21:5 : 5 And crying out against God and against Moses, they said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to come to our death in the waste land? For there is no bread and no water, and this poor bread is disgusting to us.
  • Acts 5:9 : 9 But Peter said to her, Why have you made an agreement together to be false to the Spirit of the Lord? See, the feet of the young men who have put the body of your husband in the earth, are at the door, and they will take you out.
  • Acts 15:10 : 10 Why then are you testing God, by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke so hard that not even our fathers or we were strong enough for it?
  • Luke 4:12 : 12 And Jesus made answer and said to him, It is said in the Writings, You may not put the Lord your God to the test.
  • Luke 15:12 : 12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me that part of your property which will be mine. And he made division of his goods between them.
  • Exod 14:11-12 : 11 And they said to Moses, Was there no resting-place for the dead in Egypt, that you have taken us away to come to our death in the waste land? why have you taken us out of Egypt? 12 Did we not say to you in Egypt, Let us be as we are, working for the Egyptians? for it is better to be the servants of the Egyptians than to come to our death in the waste land.
  • Exod 15:24 : 24 And the people, crying out against Moses, said, What are we to have for drink?
  • Exod 16:2-3 : 2 And all the children of Israel were crying out against Moses and Aaron in the waste land: 3 And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food.
  • Gen 30:1-2 : 1 Now Rachel, because she had no children, was full of envy of her sister; and she said to Jacob, If you do not give me children I will not go on living. 2 But Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said, Am I in the place of God, who has kept your body from having fruit?
  • Exod 5:21 : 21 And they said to them, May the Lord take note of you and be your judge; for you have given Pharaoh and his servants a bad opinion of us, putting a sword in their hands for our destruction.
  • Num 11:4-6 : 4 And the mixed band of people who went with them were overcome by desire: and the children of Israel, weeping again, said, Who will give us flesh for our food? 5 Sweet is the memory of the fish we had in Egypt for nothing, and the fruit and green plants of every sort, sharp and pleasing to the taste: 6 But now our soul is wasted away; there is nothing at all: we have nothing but this manna before our eyes.
  • Num 14:2 : 2 And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land!
  • 1 Sam 8:6 : 6 But Samuel was not pleased when they said to him, Give us a king to be our judge. And Samuel made prayer to the Lord.
  • Matt 16:1-3 : 1 And the Pharisees and Sadducees came and, testing him, made a request to him to give them a sign from heaven. 2 But in answer he said to them, At nightfall you say, The weather will be good, for the sky is red. 3 And in the morning, The weather will be bad today, for the sky is red and angry. You are able to see the face of heaven, but not the signs of the times.