Psalms 78:16

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 20:8 : 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 20:10-11 : 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.
  • Deut 8:15 : 15 and 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
  • Deut 9:21 : 21 As for your sinful thing that you had made, the calf, I took it, melted it down, ground it up until it was as fine as dust, and tossed the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.
  • Ps 105:41 : 41 He opened up a rock and water flowed out; a river ran through dry regions.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 78:13-15
    3 verses
    89%

    13He divided the sea and led them across it; he made the water stand in a heap.

    14He led them with a cloud by day, and with the light of a fire all night long.

    15He broke open rocks in the wilderness, and gave them enough water to fill the depths of the sea.

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

  • 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.’

  • 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?”

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

  • 10He turns springs into streams; they flow between the mountains.

  • Num 20:10-11
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

  • 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.

  • 33He turned streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land,

  • 18I 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.

  • 15You broke open the spring and the stream; you dried up perpetually flowing rivers.

  • 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

  • 35As for his people, he turned a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into springs of water.

  • 17Yet they continued to sin against him, and rebelled against the Most High in the desert.

  • 44He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams.

  • 7For the LORD your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills,

  • 18He then orders it all to melt; he breathes on it, and the water flows.

  • Ps 18:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15The depths of the sea were exposed; the inner regions of the world were uncovered by your battle cry, LORD, by the powerful breath from your nose.

    16He reached down from above and took hold of me; he pulled me from the surging water.

  • 16Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?

  • 17He reached down from above and grabbed me; he pulled me from the surging water.

  • Job 28:9-11
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    74%

    9On the flinty rock man has set to work with his hand; he has overturned mountains at their bases.

    10He has cut out channels through the rocks; his eyes have spotted every precious thing.

    11He has searched the sources of the rivers and what was hidden he has brought into the light.

  • 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.

  • Ps 77:16-17
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    16The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you and trembled. Yes, the depths of the sea shook with fear.

    17The clouds poured down rain; the skies thundered. Yes, your arrows flashed about.

  • Num 21:16-17
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    73%

    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.”

    17Then Israel sang this song:“Spring up, O well, sing to it!

  • 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.”

  • 13He waters the mountains from the upper rooms of his palace; the earth is full of the fruit you cause to grow.

  • 15If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.

  • 24Justice must flow like torrents of water, righteous actions like a stream that never dries up.

  • 25I dug wells and drank water. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’

  • 16When his voice thunders, the waters in the heavens roar. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.

  • 9He shouted at the Red Sea and it dried up; he led them through the deep water as if it were a desert.

  • 27He draws up drops of water; they distill the rain into its mist,

  • 6He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the river on foot. Let us rejoice in him there!

  • 7He causes the clouds to arise from the end of the earth, makes lightning bolts accompany the rain, and brings the wind out of his storehouses.

  • 23He gave a command to the clouds above, and opened the doors in the sky.

  • 28He caused them to fall right in the middle of their camp, all around their homes.

  • 6As they pass through the Baca Valley, he provides a spring for them. The rain even covers it with pools of water.

  • 24I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’

  • 11You split the sea before them, and they crossed through the sea on dry ground! But you threw their pursuers into the depths, like a stone into surging waters.

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

  • 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?”