Exodus 17:7
He called the name of the place Massah,{Massah means testing.} and Meribah,{Meribah means quarreling.} 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 provocation, 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.{TR adds "You shall listen to him."}' 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, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we know that Yahweh is in the midst of us, because you have not committed this trespass against Yahweh: now have you 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 great in the midst of you is the Holy One of Israel!"
- Mic 3:11 : 11 Her leaders judge for bribes, And her priests teach for a price, And her prophets of it tell forturnes 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 20:10-134 verses83%
10 Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, Hear now, you rebels; shall we bring you forth water out of this rock?
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 cattle.
12 Yahweh 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.
13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.
- Exod 17:1-44 verses81%
1 All 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.
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?"
4 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me."
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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.
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22 At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.
- Num 27:14-152 verses77%
14 because 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.)
15 Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying,
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3 The name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of Yahweh burnt among them.
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51 because 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.
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16 You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
- Exod 15:23-253 verses74%
23 When they came to Marah, they couldn't drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah.{Marah means bitter.}
24 The people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?"
25 Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh shown 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 14:10-112 verses74%
10 But all the congregation bade 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?
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32 They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, So that Moses was troubled for their sakes;
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2 The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;
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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.
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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.
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27 and 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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8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
- Num 20:7-82 verses72%
7 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
8 Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak you 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 cattle drink.
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2 There was no water for the congregation: and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
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40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, And grieved him in the desert!
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17 With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn't it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
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9 Where your fathers tested me by proving me, And saw my works for forty years.
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34 Yahweh heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying,
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4 Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?
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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;
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16 From 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.
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34 The name of that place was called Kibrothhattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.
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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.
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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!
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41 But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have killed the people of Yahweh.
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8 Don't harden your heart, as at Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
- Deut 9:7-82 verses70%
7 Remember, 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.
8 Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you.
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15 Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Yahweh our Banner.{Hebrew, Yahweh Nissi}
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20 Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, Streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?"
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15 who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, [in which were] fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint;
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15 Yahweh said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.
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7 and 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?"
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10 Yahweh's anger was kindled in that day, and he swore, saying,