Exodus 17:4

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Then Moses cried out to the LORD,“What will I do with this people?– a little more and they will stone me!”

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 14:10 : 10 However, the whole community threatened to stone them. But the glory of the LORD appeared to all the Israelites at the tent of meeting.
  • 1 Sam 30:6 : 6 David was very upset, for the men were thinking of stoning him; each man grieved bitterly over his sons and daughters. But David drew strength from the LORD his God.
  • John 8:59 : 59 Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden from them and went out from the temple area.
  • John 10:31 : 31 The Jewish leaders picked up rocks again to stone him to death.
  • Acts 14:19 : 19 But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and after winning the crowds over, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, presuming him to be dead.
  • Acts 7:50 : 50 Did my hand not make all these things?’
  • Num 16:19 : 19 When Korah assembled the whole community against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting, then the glory of the LORD appeared to the whole community.
  • Exod 15:25 : 25 He cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree. When Moses threw it into the water, the water became safe to drink. There the LORD made for them a binding ordinance, and there he tested them.
  • Num 11:11 : 11 And Moses said to the LORD,“Why have you afflicted your servant? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of this entire people on me?
  • Exod 14:15 : 15 The LORD said to Moses,“Why do you cry out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 17:2-3
    2 verses
    82%

    2So the people contended with Moses, and they said,“Give us water to drink!” Moses said to them,“Why do you contend with me? Why do you test the LORD?”

    3But the people were very thirsty there for water, and they murmured against Moses and said,“Why in the world did you bring us up from Egypt– to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”

  • Exod 32:11-12
    2 verses
    79%

    11But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God and said,“O LORD, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

    12Why should the Egyptians say,‘For evil he led them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger, and relent of this evil against your people.

  • Exod 15:24
    79%

    24So the people murmured against Moses, saying,“What can we drink?”

  • Exod 17:5-7
    3 verses
    78%

    5The LORD said to Moses,“Go over before the people; take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the Nile and go.

    6I will be standing before you there on the rock in Horeb, and you will strike the rock, and water will come out of it so that the people may drink.” And Moses did so in plain view of the elders of Israel.

    7He called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contending of the Israelites and because of their testing the LORD, saying,“Is the LORD among us or not?”

  • Num 14:10-11
    2 verses
    77%

    10However, the whole community threatened to stone them. But the glory of the LORD appeared to all the Israelites at the tent of meeting.

    11The Punishment from God The LORD said to Moses,“How long will this people despise me, and how long will they not believe in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them?

  • Num 27:15
    77%

    15Then Moses spoke to the LORD:

  • Exod 5:22
    76%

    22The Assurance of Deliverance Moses returned to the LORD, and said,“Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? Why did you ever send me?

  • Exod 32:9
    76%

    9Then the LORD said to Moses:“I have seen this people. Look what a stiff-necked people they are!

  • Num 20:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3The people contended with Moses, saying,“If only we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!

    4Why have you brought up the LORD’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?

  • Num 11:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10Moses’ Complaint to the Lord Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and when the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly, Moses was also displeased.

    11And Moses said to the LORD,“Why have you afflicted your servant? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of this entire people on me?

  • Num 14:13
    75%

    13Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–

  • Num 14:26-27
    2 verses
    75%

    26The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

    27“How long must I bear with this evil congregation that murmurs against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites that they murmured against me.

  • Lev 24:23
    75%

    23Then Moses spoke to the Israelites and they brought the one who cursed outside the camp and stoned him with stones. So the Israelites did just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • Exod 4:1
    75%

    1The Source of Sufficiency Moses answered again,“And if they do not believe me or pay attention to me, but say,‘The LORD has not appeared to you’?”

  • Num 14:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1The Israelites Respond in Unbelief Then all the community raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night.

    2And all the Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them,“If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had perished in this wilderness!

  • Lev 24:13
    74%

    13Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 14:15
    74%

    15The LORD said to Moses,“Why do you cry out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.

  • Num 11:15
    74%

    15But if you are going to deal with me like this, then kill me immediately. If I have found favor in your sight then do not let me see my trouble.”

  • Num 11:2
    74%

    2When the people cried to Moses, he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died out.

  • Exod 6:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and hard labor.

    10Then the LORD said to Moses,

  • Exod 14:11
    74%

    11and they said to Moses,“Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert? What in the world have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

  • Num 20:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10Then Moses and Aaron gathered the community together in front of the rock, and he said to them,“Listen, you rebels, must we bring water out of this rock for you?”

    11Then Moses raised his hand, and struck the rock twice with his staff. And water came out abundantly. So the community drank, and their beasts drank too.

  • Num 21:5
    74%

    5And the people spoke against God and against Moses,“Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we detest this worthless food.”

  • Num 20:7
    74%

    7Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 16:2
    73%

    2The entire company of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

  • Exod 32:21
    73%

    21Moses said to Aaron,“What did this people do to you, that you have brought on them so great a sin?”

  • Exod 8:26
    73%

    26But Moses said,“That would not be the right thing to do, for the sacrifices we make to the LORD our God would be an abomination to the Egyptians. If we make sacrifices that are an abomination to the Egyptians right before their eyes, will they not stone us?

  • Acts 7:28
    73%

    28You don’t want to kill me the way you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you?’

  • Exod 3:11
    73%

    11Moses said to God,“Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, or that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

  • Num 16:13
    72%

    13Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of the land that flows with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness? Now do you want to make yourself a prince over us?

  • Exod 19:17
    72%

    17Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their place at the foot of the mountain.

  • Num 16:41
    72%

    41But on the next day the whole community of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying,“You have killed the LORD’s people!”

  • Num 16:44
    72%

    44The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 21:7
    72%

    7Then the people came to Moses and said,“We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD that he would take away the snakes from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.

  • Exod 18:15
    72%

    15Moses said to his father-in-law,“Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

  • Num 14:39
    72%

    39When Moses told these things to all the Israelites, the people mourned greatly.

  • Exod 19:21
    72%

    21The LORD said to Moses,“Go down and solemnly warn the people, lest they force their way through to the LORD to look, and many of them perish.

  • Exod 2:14
    72%

    14The man replied,“Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Are you planning to kill me like you killed that Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, thinking,“Surely what I did has become known.”