Psalms 78:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Yes, 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?”

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  • 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.
  • Gen 18:12-14 : 12 So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking,“After I am worn out will I have pleasure, especially when my husband is old too?” 13 The LORD said to Abraham,“Why did Sarah laugh and say,‘Will I really have a child when I am old?’ 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 17:6-7 : 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. 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 11:18 : 18 “And say to the people,‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying,“Who will give us meat to eat, for life was good for us in Egypt?” Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.
  • Num 11:21-23 : 21 Moses said,“The people around me are 600,000 on foot; but you say,‘I will give them meat, that they may eat for a whole month.’ 22 Would they have enough if the flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? If all the fish of the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?” 23 And the LORD said to Moses,“Is the LORD’s hand shortened? Now you will see whether my word to you will come true or not!”
  • Ps 78:41 : 41 They again challenged God, and offended the Holy One of Israel.

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  • Ps 78:15-19
    5 verses
    84%

    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.

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

    18They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.

    19They insulted God, saying,“Is God really able to give us food in the wilderness?

  • Ps 105:40-41
    2 verses
    81%

    40They asked for food, and he sent quails; he satisfied them with food from the sky.

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

  • Isa 48:21
    80%

    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.’

  • Num 20:10-11
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    80%

    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.

  • Exod 17:2-7
    6 verses
    79%

    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?”

  • Ps 114:8
    79%

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

  • Num 20:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    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.”

  • Neh 9:15
    76%

    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 11:21-22
    2 verses
    76%

    21Moses said,“The people around me are 600,000 on foot; but you say,‘I will give them meat, that they may eat for a whole month.’

    22Would they have enough if the flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? If all the fish of the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?”

  • Deut 8:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    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

    16fed you in the wilderness with manna(which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.

  • Ps 78:27-29
    3 verses
    74%

    27He rained down meat on them like dust, birds as numerous as the sand on the seashores.

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

    29They ate until they were beyond full; he gave them what they desired.

  • Ps 78:21
    74%

    21When the LORD heard this, he was furious. A fire broke out against Jacob, and his anger flared up against Israel,

  • Num 11:13
    73%

    13From where shall I get meat to give to this entire people, for they cry to me,‘Give us meat, that we may eat!’

  • Ps 78:44
    73%

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

  • Ps 78:40
    72%

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

  • Exod 15:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

  • Neh 9:20
    71%

    20You imparted your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths; you provided water for their thirst.

  • Num 21:5
    71%

    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 21:16
    71%

    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 78:23-25
    3 verses
    71%

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

    24He rained down manna for them to eat; he gave them the grain of heaven.

    25Man ate the food of the mighty ones. He sent them more than enough to eat.

  • Deut 32:13
    70%

    13He enabled him to travel over the high terrain of the land, and he ate of the produce of the fields. He provided honey for him from the cliffs, and olive oil from the hardest of rocks,

  • Job 12:15
    70%

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

  • Ps 107:35
    70%

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

  • Num 11:18
    70%

    18“And say to the people,‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying,“Who will give us meat to eat, for life was good for us in Egypt?” Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.

  • Ps 78:13
    70%

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

  • Num 11:33
    70%

    33But while the meat was still between their teeth, before they chewed it, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.

  • Num 11:4
    70%

    4Complaints about Food Now the mixed multitude who were among them craved more desirable foods, and so the Israelites wept again and said,“If only we had meat to eat!

  • Ps 147:18
    69%

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

  • Ps 105:29
    69%

    29He turned their water into blood, and killed their fish.

  • Job 28:9
    69%

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