Numbers 21:18

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The well that the leaders dug, that the nobles of the people excavated with their scepters and staffs.' From the wilderness they went to Mattanah.

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  • Num 33:45-47 : 45 They journeyed from Iye-abarim and camped at Dibon-gad. 46 They set out from Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim. 47 They departed from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, facing Nebo.
  • Deut 5:31 : 31 But as for you, stay here with Me, so that I may give you all the commands, decrees, and laws you are to teach them to follow in the land I am giving them to possess.
  • Deut 33:4 : 4 The law that Moses commanded us is a heritage for the congregation of Jacob.
  • 2 Chr 17:7-9 : 7 In the third year of his reign, he sent his officials—Ben-Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah—to teach in the cities of Judah. 8 With them were the Levites—Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-Adonijah—along with the priests Elishama and Jehoram. 9 They taught in Judah, taking with them the Book of the Law of the LORD. They went around to all the cities of Judah and instructed the people.
  • Neh 3:1 : 1 Then Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests arose and built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set up its doors, and they consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel.
  • Neh 3:5 : 5 Next to them, the Tekoites repaired, but their nobles would not put their shoulders to the work under their supervisors.
  • Isa 33:22 : 22 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us.
  • John 1:17 : 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Tim 6:17-18 : 17 Command those who are rich in this present age not to be arrogant or to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides us with all things to enjoy. 18 Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous, willing to share.
  • Jas 4:12 : 12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?

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    81%

    15The ravines of the valleys that extend to the settlement of Ar and rest along the border of Moab.

    16From there they went to Beer. This is the well where the LORD said to Moses, 'Gather the people together, and I will give them water.'

    17Then Israel sang this song: 'Spring up, O well—sing to it!'

  • Num 21:19
    78%

    19From Mattanah they went to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth.

  • Gen 26:18-22
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    73%

    18Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham's death; he gave them the same names his father had given them.

    19Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of flowing water there.

    20But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, "The water is ours!" So he named the well Esek, because they disputed with him.

    21Isaac’s servants then dug another well, but they also quarreled over it. So he named it Sitnah.

    22He moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over this one. So he named it Rehoboth, and he said, "Now the LORD has given us room, and we will flourish in the land."

  • Isa 48:21
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    21They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; He made water flow from the rock for them; He split open the rock, and water gushed out.

  • Jer 14:3
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    3The nobles sent their servants for water; they went to the cisterns but found no water. They returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and humiliated, covering their heads.

  • Gen 26:32
    68%

    32That same day, Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug, saying, "We have found water!"

  • Ps 78:15-16
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    15He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them water as abundant as the depths.

    16He brought streams out of the rock and made water flow down like rivers.

  • Ps 114:8
    68%

    8who turned the rock into a pool, the hard stone into a spring of water.

  • Deut 10:7
    67%

    7From there, they traveled to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with streams of water.

  • Isa 37:25
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    25I dug wells and drank water; with the soles of my feet, I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.

  • Josh 9:21
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    21They also said, 'Let them live, but let them be woodcutters and water carriers for the entire assembly,' just as the leaders had directed.

  • Gen 26:15
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    15The Philistines stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug during the days of Abraham his father, filling them with dirt.

  • Exod 17:6
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    6The LORD continued, "I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink." So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

  • Judg 5:11
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    11The voices of the archers at the watering places recount the righteous acts of the Lord, the righteous acts of His villagers in Israel. Then the people of the Lord went down to the city gates.

  • Prov 5:15
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    15Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.

  • Ps 84:6
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    6Blessed is the one whose strength is in You, whose heart is set on pilgrimage.

  • Ps 105:41
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    41He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.

  • Isa 41:18
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    18I will open rivers on the barren heights and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water and the parched ground into flowing springs.

  • 2 Kgs 3:19
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    19You will destroy every fortified city and every major town, cut down every good tree, stop up all the springs, and ruin every good field with stones.

  • Job 3:14
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    14With kings and counselors of the earth who built ruins for themselves.

  • 2 Kgs 19:24
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    24I have dug wells in foreign lands and drunk water there. With the soles of my feet, I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.

  • 2 Kgs 3:25
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    25They destroyed the cities, threw stones onto every good field until it was covered, stopped up all the springs of water, and cut down all the good trees. Only the stones of Kir Hareseth were left standing, but the slingers surrounded and attacked it.

  • 1 Chr 11:17-18
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    66%

    17David longed for water and said, "If only someone would get me water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!"

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  • Num 20:11
    66%

    11Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water came out abundantly, and the community and their livestock drank.

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    65%

    22'Let us pass through your land. We will not turn aside into any field or vineyard, nor drink water from any well. We will travel along the King’s Highway until we pass through your territory.'

  • Gen 29:3
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  • Deut 8:15
    65%

    15He led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, filled with venomous snakes, scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water. He brought water for you out of a rock of flint.

  • Ps 107:40
    65%

    40He pours out contempt on nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

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    4A large number of people gathered together, and they stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land, saying, "Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?"

  • Hos 5:10
    65%

    10The leaders of Judah are like those who move boundary stones; I will pour out my wrath on them like water.

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    65%

    18Then they journeyed through the wilderness, went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and came to the east side of the land of Moab. They camped on the other side of the Arnon but did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.

  • Exod 7:24
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    24All the Egyptians dug along the Nile to get drinking water because they could not drink the water from the river.

  • Num 20:17
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    17Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through any field or vineyard, nor will we drink water from any well. We will travel along the King's Highway and not turn to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory.

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    3But the people were very thirsty for water there, and they complained against Moses, saying, "Why did you bring us out of Egypt to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"

  • Gen 21:25
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    25Then Abraham rebuked Abimelech about the well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

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    13For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.