Numbers 27:14
For 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.”
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- Exod 17:7 : 7 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?”
- 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.
- Deut 1:37 : 37 As for me, the LORD was also angry with me on your account. He said,“You also will not be able to go there.
- Deut 32:51-52 : 51 for 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. 52 You will see the land before you, but you will not enter the land that I am giving to the Israelites.”
- Ps 106:32-33 : 32 They made him angry by the waters of Meribah, and Moses suffered because of them, 33 for they aroused his temper, and he spoke rashly.
- Num 20:1 : 1 The Israelites Complain Again Then the entire community of Israel entered the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died and was buried there.
- Num 20:8-9 : 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.” 9 So Moses took the staff from before the LORD, just as he commanded him. 10 Then 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?” 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. 12 The 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.” 13 These are the waters of Meribah, because the Israelites contended with the LORD, and his holiness was maintained among them.
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- Deut 32:51-522 verses88%
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.
52You will see the land before you, but you will not enter the land that I am giving to the Israelites.”
- Num 20:10-134 verses82%
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.
- Num 20:23-242 verses81%
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.
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15Then Moses spoke to the LORD:
- Deut 9:22-243 verses77%
22Moreover, you continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.
23And when he sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you,“Go up and possess the land I have given you,” you rebelled against the LORD your God and would neither believe nor obey him.
24You have been rebelling against him from the very first day I knew you!
- Exod 17:6-72 verses77%
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?”
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2And there was no water for the community, and so they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron.
- Exod 17:1-33 verses76%
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?”
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43I spoke to you, but you did not listen. Instead you rebelled against the LORD and recklessly went up to the hill country.
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32They made him angry by the waters of Meribah, and Moses suffered because of them,
- Num 20:7-82 verses75%
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.”
- Deut 1:26-272 verses75%
26Disobedience at Kadesh Barnea You were not willing to go up, however, but instead rebelled against the LORD your God.
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!
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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.
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29Your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness– all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me.
- Deut 9:7-82 verses74%
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.
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2The entire company of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
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41But Moses said,“Why are you now transgressing the commandment of the LORD? It will not succeed!
- Num 14:26-272 verses74%
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.
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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!”
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37As for me, the LORD was also angry with me on your account. He said,“You also will not be able to go there.
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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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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,
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18Now today you dare to turn back from following the LORD! You are rebelling today against the LORD; tomorrow he may break out in anger against the entire community of Israel.
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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.”
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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?
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26But the LORD was angry at me because of you and would not listen to me. Instead, he said to me,“Enough of that! Do not speak to me anymore about this matter.
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17Yet they continued to sin against him, and rebelled against the Most High in the desert.
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3And they assembled against Moses and Aaron, saying to them,“You take too much upon yourselves, seeing that the whole community is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the community of the LORD.
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34Judgment at Kadesh Barnea When the LORD heard you, he became angry and made this vow:
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11Therefore you and all your company have assembled together against the LORD! And Aaron– what is he that you murmur against him?”
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14In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving for meat; they challenged God in the wastelands.
- Num 14:34-352 verses71%
34According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days– one day for a year– you will suffer for your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me.
35I, the LORD, have said,“I will surely do so to all this evil congregation that has gathered together against me. In this wilderness they will be finished, and there they will die!”’”
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16‘Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.’
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24So the people murmured against Moses, saying,“What can we drink?”
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40But as for you, turn back and head for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”