2Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
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And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Here is, I. The strait that the children of Israel were in for want of water; once before the were in the like distress, and now, a second time, Exod. 17:1. They journeyed according to the commandment of the Lord , led by the pillar of cloud and fire, and yet they came to a place where there was no water for them to drink. Note, We may be in the way of our duty, and yet may meet with troubles, whi…
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