Exodus 17:2

World English Bible (2000)

Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink." Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?"

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  • Deut 6:16 : 16 You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
  • Ps 78:41 : 41 They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 7:12 : 12 But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, neither will I tempt Yahweh."
  • Matt 4:7 : 7 Jesus said to him, "Again, it is written, 'You shall not test the Lord, your God.'"
  • 1 Cor 10:9 : 9 Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
  • Ps 78:18 : 18 They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
  • Heb 3:9 : 9 where your fathers tested me by proving me, and saw my works for forty years.
  • Ps 95:9 : 9 when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.
  • Ps 106:14 : 14 but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.
  • Mal 3:15 : 15 Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.'
  • Ps 78:56 : 56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn't keep his testimonies;
  • Exod 17:7 : 7 He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, "Is Yahweh among us, or not?"
  • Num 14:22 : 22 because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
  • Num 20:2-5 : 2 There was no water for the congregation: and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. 3 The people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, "We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh! 4 Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals? 5 Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink."
  • Num 21:5 : 5 The people spoke against God, and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread."
  • Acts 5:9 : 9 But Peter asked her, "How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out."
  • Acts 15:10 : 10 Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
  • Luke 4:12 : 12 Jesus answering, said to him, "It has been said, 'You shall not tempt the Lord your God.'"
  • Luke 15:12 : 12 The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of your property.' He divided his livelihood between them.
  • Exod 14:11-12 : 11 They said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us forth out of Egypt? 12 Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness."
  • Exod 15:24 : 24 The people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?"
  • Exod 16:2-3 : 2 The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness; 3 and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."
  • Gen 30:1-2 : 1 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I will die." 2 Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"
  • Exod 5:21 : 21 and they said to them, "May Yahweh look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us."
  • Num 11:4-6 : 4 The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who will give us flesh to eat? 5 We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic; 6 but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at."
  • Num 14:2 : 2 All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!
  • 1 Sam 8:6 : 6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, "Give us a king to judge us." Samuel prayed to Yahweh.
  • Matt 16:1-3 : 1 The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven. 2 But he answered them, "When it is evening, you say, 'It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.' 3 In the morning, 'It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.' Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can't discern the signs of the times!

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    3The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"

    4Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me."

    5Yahweh said to Moses, "Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go.

    6Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink." Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

    7He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, "Is Yahweh among us, or not?"

  • Exod 15:22-25
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    22Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

    23When they came to Marah, they couldn't drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.

    24The people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?"

    25Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them;

  • Num 20:2-5
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    2There was no water for the congregation: and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.

    3The people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, "We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!

    4Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?

    5Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink."

  • Exod 17:1
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    1All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to Yahweh's commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.

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    10Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels; shall we bring you water out of this rock for you?"

    11Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice: and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.

    12Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you didn't believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them."

    13These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.

  • Num 21:5
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    5The people spoke against God, and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread."

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    14because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes." (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)

    15Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying,

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    2The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

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    2All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!

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    32They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;

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    11They said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us forth out of Egypt?

    12Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness."

  • Deut 1:27
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    27and you murmured in your tents, and said, "Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

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    16From there they traveled to Beer: that is the well of which Yahweh said to Moses, "Gather the people together, and I will give them water."

  • Num 20:7-8
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    7Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

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  • Num 14:26-27
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    26Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

    27"How long [shall I bear] with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

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    15Yahweh said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.

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    8Moses said, "Now Yahweh shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh."

  • Exod 5:22
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    22Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?

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    22At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.

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    13is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?

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    41But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, "You have killed Yahweh's people!"

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    15who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, [in which were] fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint;

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    10Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and the anger of Yahweh was kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased.

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    20Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?"

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    17With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn't it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

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    41Moses said, "Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, since it shall not prosper?

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    40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

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    24All the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink; for they couldn't drink of the water of the river.