Numbers 20:8

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“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.”

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  • Exod 4:17 : 17 You will also take in your hand this staff, with which you will do the signs.”
  • Exod 17:5-6 : 5 The 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. 6 I 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.
  • Isa 43:20 : 20 The wild animals honor me, the jackals and ostriches, because I put water in the wilderness and streams in the wastelands, to quench the thirst of my chosen people,
  • Isa 48:21 : 21 They do not thirst as he leads them through dry regions; he makes water flow out of a rock for them; he splits open a rock and water flows out.’
  • Matt 21:21 : 21 Jesus answered them,“I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain,‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.
  • Mark 11:22-24 : 22 Jesus said to them,“Have faith in God. 23 I tell you the truth, if someone says to this mountain,‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. 24 For this reason I tell you, whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
  • Luke 11:13 : 13 If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
  • John 4:10-14 : 10 Jesus answered her,“If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you,‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11 “Sir,” the woman said to him,“you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water? 12 Surely you’re not greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.” 13 Jesus replied,“Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty again. 14 But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.”
  • John 16:24 : 24 Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive it, so that your joy may be complete.
  • Acts 1:14 : 14 All these continued together in prayer with one mind, together with the women, along with Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
  • Acts 2:1-4 : 1 The Holy Spirit and the Day of Pentecost Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a sound like a violent wind blowing came from heaven and filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 And tongues spreading out like a fire appeared to them and came to rest on each one of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in other languages as the Spirit enabled them.
  • Rev 22:1 : 1 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life– water as clear as crystal– pouring out from the throne of God and of the Lamb,
  • Rev 22:17 : 17 And the Spirit and the bride say,“Come!” And let the one who hears say:“Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wants it take the water of life free of charge.
  • Exod 17:9 : 9 So Moses said to Joshua,“Choose some of our men and go out, fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”
  • Num 20:11 : 11 Then 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 21:15 : 15 and the slope of the valleys that extends to the dwelling of Ar, and falls off at the border of Moab.”
  • Num 21:18 : 18 The well which the princes dug, which the leaders of the people opened with their scepters and their staffs.”And from the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah;
  • Josh 6:5 : 5 When you hear the signal from the ram’s horn, have the whole army give a loud battle cry. Then the city wall will collapse and the warriors should charge straight ahead.”
  • Josh 6:20 : 20 The rams’ horns sounded and when the army heard the signal, they gave a loud battle cry. The wall collapsed and the warriors charged straight ahead into the city and captured it.
  • Neh 9:15 : 15 You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.
  • Ps 33:9 : 9 For he spoke, and it came into existence, he issued the decree, and it stood firm.
  • Ps 78:15-16 : 15 He broke open rocks in the wilderness, and gave them enough water to fill the depths of the sea. 16 He caused streams to flow from the rock, and made the water flow like rivers.
  • Ps 105:41 : 41 He opened up a rock and water flowed out; a river ran through dry regions.
  • Ps 114:8 : 8 who turned a rock into a pool of water, a hard rock into springs of water!
  • Isa 41:17-18 : 17 The oppressed and the poor look for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched from thirst. I, the LORD, will respond to their prayers; I, the God of Israel, will not abandon them. 18 I will make streams flow down the slopes and produce springs in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the wilderness into a pool of water and the arid land into springs.
  • Exod 4:20 : 20 Then Moses took his wife and sons and put them on a donkey and headed back to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.
  • Exod 7:20 : 20 Moses and Aaron did so, just as the LORD had commanded. He raised the staff and struck the water that was in the Nile right before the eyes of Pharaoh and his servants, and all the water that was in the Nile was turned to blood.
  • Exod 14:16 : 16 And as for you, lift up your staff and extend your hand toward the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites may go through the middle of the sea on dry ground.
  • Gen 18:14 : 14 Is anything impossible for the LORD? I will return to you when the season comes round again and Sarah will have a son.”
  • Exod 4:2 : 2 The LORD said to him,“What is that in your hand?” He said,“A staff.”

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  • Num 20:9-13
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    9So Moses took the staff from before the LORD, just as he commanded him.

    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 17:1-7
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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!”

    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 20:7
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    7Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • 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?”

  • 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.

  • Num 27:13-15
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    13When you have seen it, you will be gathered to your ancestors, as Aaron your brother was gathered to his ancestors.

    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 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.”

  • Ps 114:8
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    8who turned a rock into a pool of water, a hard rock into springs of water!

  • Isa 48:21
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    21They do not thirst as he leads them through dry regions; he makes water flow out of a rock for them; he splits open a rock and water flows out.’

  • 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

  • Ps 78:15-16
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    15He broke open rocks in the wilderness, and gave them enough water to fill the depths of the sea.

    16He caused streams to flow from the rock, and made the water flow like rivers.

  • Num 17:9-10
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    9So Moses brought out all the staffs from before the LORD to all the Israelites. They looked at them, and each man took his staff.

    10The Memorial The LORD said to Moses,“Bring Aaron’s staff back before the testimony to be preserved for a sign to the rebels, so that you may bring their murmurings to an end before me, that they will not die.”

  • Num 17:1-2
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    1The Budding of Aaron’s Staff The LORD spoke to Moses:

    2“Speak to the Israelites, and receive from them a staff from each tribe, one from every tribal leader, twelve staffs; you must write each man’s name on his staff.

  • Exod 7:8-9
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    8The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

    9“When Pharaoh says to you,‘Do a miracle,’ and you say to Aaron,‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ it will become a snake.”

  • Num 20:23-24
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    23And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom. He said:

    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.

  • Exod 4:17
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    17You will also take in your hand this staff, with which you will do the signs.”

  • Neh 9:15
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    15You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.

  • Num 14:26
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    26The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

  • Exod 7:19-20
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    19Then the LORD said to Moses,“Tell Aaron,‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over Egypt’s waters– over their rivers, over their canals, over their ponds, and over all their reservoirs– so that it becomes blood.’ There will be blood everywhere in the land of Egypt, even in wooden and stone containers.”

    20Moses and Aaron did so, just as the LORD had commanded. He raised the staff and struck the water that was in the Nile right before the eyes of Pharaoh and his servants, and all the water that was in the Nile was turned to blood.

  • Exod 15:24
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    24So the people murmured against Moses, saying,“What can we drink?”

  • Num 16:20
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    20The Judgment on the Rebels The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

  • Ps 105:41
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    41He opened up a rock and water flowed out; a river ran through dry regions.

  • Exod 14:16
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    16And as for you, lift up your staff and extend your hand toward the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites may go through the middle of the sea on dry ground.

  • 1 Cor 10:4
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    4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

  • 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.

  • Num 17:5-6
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    5And the staff of the man whom I choose will blossom; so I will rid myself of the complaints of the Israelites, which they murmur against you.”

    6So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and each of their leaders gave him a staff, one for each leader, according to their tribes– twelve staffs; the staff of Aaron was among their staffs.

  • 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 16:44
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    44The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 8:5
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    5The LORD spoke to Moses,“Tell Aaron,‘Extend your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals, and over the ponds, and bring the frogs up over the land of Egypt.’”

  • Exod 30:17
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    17The Bronze Laver The LORD spoke to Moses:

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    2The LORD said to him,“What is that in your hand?” He said,“A staff.”