Numbers 20:13

KJV1611 – Modern English

This is the water of Meribah, because the children of Israel contended with the LORD, and He was sanctified among them.

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  • Ps 95:8 : 8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
  • Exod 17:7 : 7 And he named the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the children of Israel, and because they tested the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
  • Deut 33:8 : 8 And of Levi he said, Let your Thummim and your Urim be with your holy one, whom you tried at Massah, and with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah;
  • Deut 32:51 : 51 Because you trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you did not sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel.
  • Ps 106:32-48 : 32 They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went badly with Moses for their sakes; 33 Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke rashly with his lips. 34 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them. 35 But they were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works. 36 And they served their idols, which were a snare to them. 37 Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons, 38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood. 39 Thus they were defiled with their own works, and played the harlot with their own inventions. 40 Therefore the wrath of the LORD was kindled against his people, so much so that he abhorred his own inheritance. 41 And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and those who hated them ruled over them. 42 Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand. 43 Many times he delivered them, but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity. 44 Nevertheless, he regarded their affliction when he heard their cry. 45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and relented according to the multitude of his mercies. 46 He made those who carried them captives to pity them. 47 Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks to your holy name, and to triumph in your praise. 48 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting; and let all the people say, Amen. Praise the LORD.
  • Isa 5:16 : 16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God who is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
  • Ezek 20:41 : 41 I will accept you with your sweet aroma, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.
  • Ezek 36:23 : 23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am the LORD, says the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
  • Ezek 38:16 : 16 And you shall come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in you, O Gog, before their eyes.

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  • Exod 17:6-7
    2 verses
    83%

    6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

    7 And he named the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the children of Israel, and because they tested the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?

  • Num 27:14-15
    2 verses
    82%

    14 For you rebelled against my command in the desert of Zin, during the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: this is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.

    15 And Moses spoke to the LORD, saying,

  • Deut 32:51
    81%

    51 Because you trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you did not sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel.

  • Num 20:10-12
    3 verses
    79%

    10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels; must we bring water for you out of this rock?"

    11 Then Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod, and water came out abundantly; and the congregation and their livestock drank.

    12 And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not believe Me, to sanctify Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them."

  • Exod 17:1-3
    3 verses
    77%

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

    2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said to them, Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?

    3 And the people were thirsty there for water; and the people grumbled against Moses, and said, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

  • Ps 106:32
    77%

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

  • Num 20:22-24
    3 verses
    76%

    22 Now the children of Israel, the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor.

    23 And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying,

    24 "Aaron shall be gathered to his people, for he shall not enter the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against My word at the water of Meribah.

  • Num 20:2
    74%

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

  • Num 21:16
    73%

    16 And from there they went to Beer: that is the well of which the LORD spoke to Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.

  • Num 20:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

    8 "Take the rod, and gather the assembly together, you and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their livestock."

  • Deut 9:22
    73%

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

  • Ps 81:7
    72%

    7 You called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

  • Exod 15:22-24
    3 verses
    72%

    22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness and found no water.

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

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

  • Num 14:11
    71%

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

  • Isa 48:21
    71%

    21 And they did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he split the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

  • Heb 3:17
    71%

    17 But with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

  • Num 32:10
    71%

    10 And the LORD's anger was kindled at that time, and he swore, saying,

  • Num 14:26-27
    2 verses
    71%

    26 And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

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

  • Num 21:14
    71%

    14 Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD, What He did in the Red Sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,

  • Exod 30:17
    71%

    17 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Deut 1:34
    71%

    34 And the LORD heard the sound of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying,

  • Num 14:13
    70%

    13 And Moses said to the LORD, Then the Egyptians will hear it, (for you brought up this people in your might from among them;)

  • Neh 9:15
    70%

    15 You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger, and brought forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promised them that they would go in to possess the land which You had sworn to give them.

  • Num 16:41
    70%

    41 But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have killed the people of the LORD.

  • Deut 3:26
    70%

    26 But the LORD was angry with me for your sakes and would not hear me; and the LORD said to me: Enough! Do not speak to me anymore about this matter.

  • Num 14:22
    70%

    22 Because all those men who 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 listened to my voice;

  • Exod 14:22
    70%

    22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.

  • Exod 14:1
    70%

    1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Deut 4:21
    70%

    21 Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go into that good land, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance:

  • Exod 14:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15 And the LORD said to Moses, Why do you cry to me? speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward:

    16 But lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.

  • Isa 63:12
    70%

    12 Who led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?

  • Num 20:14
    70%

    14 Now Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, "Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the hardship that has befallen us,

  • Exod 13:1
    70%

    1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 14:30
    70%

    30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

  • Ps 114:8
    70%

    8 Who turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

  • Num 14:16
    70%

    16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.

  • Exod 16:2
    70%

    2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.