Exodus 17:7

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?

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  • Ps 81:7 : 7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
  • Ps 95:8 : 8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
  • Num 20:13 : 13 This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
  • Deut 9:22 : 22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.
  • Heb 3:8-9 : 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
  • Exod 17:2 : 2 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
  • Num 20:24 : 24 Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
  • Acts 7:37-39 : 37 This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear. 38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively orles to give unto us: 39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned bk again into Egypt,
  • Deut 31:17 : 17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hi my face from them, and they shall be voured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?
  • Josh 22:31 : 31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD is among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against the LORD: now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.
  • Exod 34:9 : 9 And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
  • Isa 12:6 : 6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
  • Mic 3:11 : 11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
  • John 1:14 : 14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

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  • Num 20:10-13
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    83%

    10And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?

    11And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.

    12And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.

    13This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.

  • Exod 17:1-4
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    81%

    1And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.

    2Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?

    3And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

    4And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.

  • 6Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

  • 22And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.

  • Num 27:14-15
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    77%

    14For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.

    15And Moses spake unto the LORD, saying,

  • 3And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.

  • 51Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kash, in the wilrness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.

  • 16Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

  • 74%

    23And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.

    24And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

    25And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,

  • Num 14:10-11
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    10But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.

    11And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?

  • 32They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:

  • 2And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:

  • Num 14:26-27
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    73%

    26And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

    27How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

  • 7Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

  • 27And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to liver us into the hand of the Amorites, to stroy us.

  • 8Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

  • Num 20:7-8
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    7And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

    8Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.

  • 2And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.

  • 40How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

  • 17But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

  • 9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

  • 34And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,

  • 4And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?

  • 22Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

  • 16And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.

  • 34And he called the name of that place Kibroth-hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.

  • 24Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.

  • 2And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!

  • 41But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.

  • 8Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

  • Deut 9:7-8
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    7Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilrness: from the day that thou didst part out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.

    8Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have stroyed you.

  • 15And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi:

  • 20Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?

  • 15Who led thee through that great and terrible wilrness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;

  • 15And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:

  • 7And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD; for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?

  • 10And the LORD'S anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, saying,