Psalms 78:20

World English Bible (2000)

Behold, 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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  • Num 20:11 : 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.
  • Gen 18:12-14 : 12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?" 13 Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?' 14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."
  • Exod 17:6-7 : 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 11:18 : 18 "Say to the people, 'Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you will eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, "Who will give us flesh to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt." Therefore Yahweh will give you flesh, and you will eat.
  • Num 11:21-23 : 21 Moses said, "The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, 'I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.' 22 Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?" 23 Yahweh said to Moses, "Has Yahweh's hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not."
  • Ps 78:41 : 41 They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

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  • Ps 78:15-19
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    84%

    15He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

    16He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

    17Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

    18They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

    19Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

  • Ps 105:40-41
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    81%

    40They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.

    41He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.

  • Isa 48:21
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    21They didn't thirst when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he split the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

  • Num 20:10-11
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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.

  • Exod 17:2-7
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    79%

    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."

    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?"

  • Ps 114:8
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    8who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of waters.

  • Num 20:7-8
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    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."

  • Neh 9:15
    76%

    15and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.

  • Num 11:21-22
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    76%

    21Moses said, "The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, 'I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.'

    22Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?"

  • Deut 8:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    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;

    16who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn't know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:

  • Ps 78:27-29
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    74%

    27He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.

    28He let them fall in the midst of their camp, around their habitations.

    29So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.

  • Ps 78:21
    74%

    21Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,

  • Num 11:13
    73%

    13Where could I get meat to give to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, 'Give us meat, that we may eat.'

  • Ps 78:44
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    44he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.

  • Ps 78:40
    72%

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

  • Exod 15:24-25
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    71%

    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;

  • Neh 9:20
    71%

    20You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn't withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.

  • Num 21:5
    71%

    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."

  • Num 21:16
    71%

    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."

  • Ps 78:23-25
    3 verses
    71%

    23Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.

    24He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.

    25Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.

  • Deut 32:13
    70%

    13He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock;

  • Job 12:15
    70%

    15Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

  • Ps 107:35
    70%

    35He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs.

  • Num 11:18
    70%

    18"Say to the people, 'Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you will eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, "Who will give us flesh to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt." Therefore Yahweh will give you flesh, and you will eat.

  • Ps 78:13
    70%

    13He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.

  • Num 11:33
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    33While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.

  • Num 11:4
    70%

    4The 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?

  • Ps 147:18
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    18He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.

  • Ps 105:29
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    29He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish.

  • Job 28:9
    69%

    9He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.