Exodus 17:7

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He 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?”

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  • Ps 81:7 : 7 In your distress you called out and I rescued you. I answered you from a dark thundercloud. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.(Selah)
  • Ps 95:8 : 8 He says,“Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,
  • Num 20:13 : 13 These are the waters of Meribah, because the Israelites contended with the LORD, and his holiness was maintained among them.
  • Deut 9:22 : 22 Moreover, you continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.
  • Heb 3:8-9 : 8 “Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness. 9 “There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.
  • Exod 17:2 : 2 So 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?”
  • Num 20:24 : 24 “Aaron will be gathered to his ancestors, for he will not enter into the land I have given to the Israelites because both of you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.
  • Acts 7:37-39 : 37 This is the Moses who said to the Israelites,‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’ 38 This is the man who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors, and he received living oracles to give to you. 39 Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him aside and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,
  • Deut 31:17 : 17 At that time my anger will erupt against them and I will abandon them and hide my face from them until they are devoured. Many disasters and distresses will overcome them so that they will say at that time,‘Have not these disasters overcome us because our God is not among us?’
  • Josh 22:31 : 31 Phinehas, son of Eleazar, the priest, said to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the Manassehites,“Today we know that the LORD is among us, because you have not disobeyed the LORD in this. Now you have rescued the Israelites from the LORD’s judgment.”
  • Exod 34:9 : 9 and said,“If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord go among us, for we are a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”
  • Isa 12:6 : 6 Cry out and shout for joy, O citizens of Zion, for the Holy One of Israel acts mightily among you!”
  • Mic 3:11 : 11 Her leaders take bribes when they decide legal cases, her priests proclaim rulings for profit, and her prophets read omens for pay. Yet they claim to trust the LORD and say,“The LORD is among us. Disaster will not overtake us!”
  • John 1:14 : 14 Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory– the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father.

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  • Num 20:10-13
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    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.

    12The Lord’s Judgment Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron,“Because you did not trust me enough to show me as holy before the Israelites, therefore you will not bring this community into the land I have given them.”

    13These are the waters of Meribah, because the Israelites contended with the LORD, and his holiness was maintained among them.

  • Exod 17:1-4
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    1Water at Massa and Meribah The whole community of the Israelites traveled on their journey from the wilderness of Sin according to the LORD’s instruction, and they pitched camp in Rephidim. Now there was no water for the people to drink.

    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?”

    4Then Moses cried out to the LORD,“What will I do with this people?– a little more and they will stone me!”

  • Exod 17:6
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    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.

  • Deut 9:22
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    22Moreover, you continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.

  • Num 27:14-15
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    14For in the wilderness of Zin when the community rebelled against me, you rebelled against my command to show me as holy before their eyes over the water– the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.”

    15Then Moses spoke to the LORD:

  • Num 11:3
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    3So he called the name of that place Taberah because there the fire of the LORD burned among them.

  • Deut 32:51
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    51for both of you rebelled against me among the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin when you did not show me proper respect among the Israelites.

  • Deut 6:16
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    16Exhortation to Obey the Lord Exclusively You must not put the LORD your God to the test as you did at Massah.

  • Exod 15:23-25
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    23Then they came to Marah, but they were not able to drink the waters of Marah, because they were bitter.(That is why its name was Marah.)

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

    25He 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 14:10-11
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    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?

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    32They made him angry by the waters of Meribah, and Moses suffered because of them,

  • Exod 16:2
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    2The entire company of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

  • Num 14:26-27
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    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.

  • Ps 81:7
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    7In your distress you called out and I rescued you. I answered you from a dark thundercloud. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.(Selah)

  • Deut 1:27
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    27You complained among yourselves privately and said,“Because the LORD hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!

  • Exod 17:8
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    8Victory over the Amalekites Amalek came and attacked Israel in Rephidim.

  • Num 20:7-8
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    7Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

    8“Take the staff and assemble the community, you and Aaron your brother, and then speak to the rock before their eyes. It will pour forth its water, and you will bring water out of the rock for them, and so you will give the community and their beasts water to drink.”

  • Num 20:2
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    2And there was no water for the community, and so they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron.

  • Ps 78:40
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    40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and insulted him in the wastelands!

  • Heb 3:17
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    17And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

  • Heb 3:9
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    9“There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.

  • Deut 1:34
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    34Judgment at Kadesh Barnea When the LORD heard you, he became angry and made this vow:

  • Num 20:4
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    4Why have you brought up the LORD’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?

  • Num 14:22
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    22For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me,

  • Num 21:16
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    16And from there they traveled to Beer; that is the well where the LORD spoke to Moses,“Gather the people and I will give them water.”

  • Num 11:34
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    34So the name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people that craved different food.

  • Num 20:24
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    24“Aaron will be gathered to his ancestors, for he will not enter into the land I have given to the Israelites because both of you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.

  • Num 14:2
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    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!

  • Num 16:41
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    41But on the next day the whole community of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying,“You have killed the LORD’s people!”

  • Ps 95:8
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    8He says,“Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,

  • Deut 9:7-8
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    7The History of Israel’s Stubbornness Remember– don’t ever forget– how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness; from the time you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place you were constantly rebelling against him.

    8At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.

  • Exod 17:15
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    15Moses built an altar, and he called it“The LORD is my Banner,”

  • Ps 78:20
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    20Yes, he struck a rock and water flowed out, streams gushed forth. But can he also give us food? Will he provide meat for his people?”

  • Deut 8:15
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    15and who brought you through the great, fearful wilderness of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and

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

  • Exod 16:7
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    7and in the morning you will see the glory of the LORD, because he has heard your murmurings against the LORD. As for us, what are we, that you should murmur against us?”

  • Num 32:10
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    10So the anger of the LORD was kindled that day, and he swore,