Exodus 17:7

World English Bible (2000)

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?"

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  • Ps 81:7 : 7 You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah." Selah.
  • Ps 95:8 : 8 Don't harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
  • Num 20:13 : 13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.
  • Deut 9:22 : 22 At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.
  • Heb 3:8-9 : 8 don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness, 9 where your fathers tested me by proving me, and saw my works for forty years.
  • Exod 17:2 : 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?"
  • Num 20:24 : 24 "Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.
  • Acts 7:37-39 : 37 This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, 'The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.' 38 This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living oracles to give to us, 39 to whom our fathers wouldn't be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
  • Deut 31:17 : 17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, 'Haven't these evils come on us because our God is not among us?'
  • Josh 22:31 : 31 Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben, to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, "Today we know that Yahweh is in the midst of us, because you have not committed this trespass against Yahweh. Now you have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of Yahweh."
  • Exod 34:9 : 9 He said, "If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us; although this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance."
  • Isa 12:6 : 6 Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great in the midst of you!"
  • Mic 3:11 : 11 Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, "Isn't Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us."
  • John 1:14 : 14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

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  • Num 20:10-13
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    83%

    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.

  • Exod 17:1-4
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    81%

    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.

    2Therefore 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?"

    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."

  • Exod 17:6
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    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.

  • Deut 9:22
    77%

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

  • Num 27:14-15
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    77%

    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,

  • Num 11:3
    75%

    3The name of that place was called Taberah, because Yahweh's fire burnt among them.

  • Deut 32:51
    75%

    51because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn't sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel.

  • Deut 6:16
    74%

    16You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

  • Exod 15:23-25
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    74%

    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 14:10-11
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    74%

    10But 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.

    11Yahweh 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?

  • Ps 106:32
    74%

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

  • Exod 16:2
    73%

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

  • Num 14:26-27
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Ps 81:7
    73%

    7You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah." Selah.

  • Deut 1:27
    73%

    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.

  • Exod 17:8
    72%

    8Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

  • Num 20:7-8
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    72%

    7Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    8"Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water; and you shall bring forth to them water out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink."

  • Num 20:2
    71%

    2There was no water for the congregation: and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.

  • Ps 78:40
    71%

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

  • Heb 3:17
    71%

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

  • Heb 3:9
    71%

    9where your fathers tested me by proving me, and saw my works for forty years.

  • Deut 1:34
    71%

    34Yahweh heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying,

  • Num 20:4
    71%

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

  • Num 14:22
    71%

    22because 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 21:16
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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 11:34
    71%

    34The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.

  • Num 20:24
    71%

    24"Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.

  • Num 14:2
    71%

    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!

  • Num 16:41
    71%

    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!"

  • Ps 95:8
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    8Don't harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

  • Deut 9:7-8
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    70%

    7Remember, don't forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you went forth out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.

    8Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you.

  • Exod 17:15
    70%

    15Moses built an altar, and called its name Yahweh our Banner.

  • Ps 78:20
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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?"

  • Deut 8:15
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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;

  • Exod 14:15
    70%

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

  • Exod 16:7
    70%

    7and in the morning, then you shall see the glory of Yahweh; because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you murmur against us?"

  • Num 32:10
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    10Yahweh's anger was kindled in that day, and he swore, saying,