Exodus 17:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?

Exodus 17:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 81:7
Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
Numbers 20:13
This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
Psalms 95:8
Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
Deuteronomy 9:22
And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.
Hebrews 3:8-9
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: …

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Commentary

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, whic…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. called the name of the place--Massah (“temptation”); Meribah (“chiding,” “strife”): the same word which is rendered “provocation” (He 3:8).