Exodus 17:4

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 14:10 : 10 But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. The glory of Yahweh appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.
  • 1 Sam 30:6 : 6 David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.
  • John 8:59 : 59 Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the midst of them, and so passed by.
  • John 10:31 : 31 Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.
  • Acts 14:19 : 19 But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
  • Acts 7:50 : 50 Didn't my hand make all these things?'
  • Num 16:19 : 19 Korah assembled all the congregation against them to the door of the Tent of Meeting: and the glory of Yahweh appeared to all the congregation.
  • Exod 15:25 : 25 Then 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 11:11 : 11 Moses said to Yahweh, "Why have you treated with your servant so badly? Why haven't I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
  • Exod 14:15 : 15 Yahweh said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 17:2-3
    2 verses
    82%

    2 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?"

    3 The 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?"

  • Exod 32:11-12
    2 verses
    79%

    11 Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

    12 Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.

  • Exod 15:24
    79%

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

  • Exod 17:5-7
    3 verses
    78%

    5 Yahweh 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.

    6 Behold, 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.

    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 14:10-11
    2 verses
    77%

    10 But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. The glory of Yahweh appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.

    11 Yahweh said to Moses, "How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?

  • Num 27:15
    77%

    15 Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying,

  • Exod 5:22
    76%

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

  • Exod 32:9
    76%

    9 Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

  • Num 20:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    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?

  • Num 11:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10 Moses 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.

    11 Moses said to Yahweh, "Why have you treated with your servant so badly? Why haven't I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?

  • Num 14:13
    75%

    13 Moses said to Yahweh, "Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them;

  • Num 14:26-27
    2 verses
    75%

    26 Yahweh 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.

  • Lev 24:23
    75%

    23 Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought forth him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses.

  • Exod 4:1
    75%

    1 Moses answered, "But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, 'Yahweh has not appeared to you.'"

  • Num 14:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

    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!

  • Lev 24:13
    74%

    13 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 14:15
    74%

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

  • Num 11:15
    74%

    15 If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don't let me see my wretchedness."

  • Num 11:2
    74%

    2 The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated.

  • Exod 6:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9 Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn't listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

    10 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 14:11
    74%

    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?

  • Num 20:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10 Moses 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?"

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

  • Num 21:5
    74%

    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."

  • Num 20:7
    74%

    7 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 16:2
    73%

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

  • Exod 32:21
    73%

    21 Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?"

  • Exod 8:26
    73%

    26 Moses said, "It isn't appropriate to do so; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Yahweh our God. Behold, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and won't they stone us?

  • Acts 7:28
    73%

    28 Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'

  • Exod 3:11
    73%

    11 Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?"

  • Num 16:13
    72%

    13 is 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?

  • Exod 19:17
    72%

    17 Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain.

  • Num 16:41
    72%

    41 But 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!"

  • Num 16:44
    72%

    44 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 21:7
    72%

    7 The people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh, and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us." Moses prayed for the people.

  • Exod 18:15
    72%

    15 Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

  • Num 14:39
    72%

    39 Moses told these words to all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

  • Exod 19:21
    72%

    21 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to Yahweh to gaze, and many of them perish.

  • Exod 2:14
    72%

    14 He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?" Moses was afraid, and said, "Surely this thing is known."