Numbers 20:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.

Numbers 20:13 —

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Cross-References

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Exodus 17:7
And 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?
Psalms 95:8
Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
Deuteronomy 33:8
And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;
Psalms 106:32-48
They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes: …
Deuteronomy 32:51
Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.

Topics

Atheism Disbelief Godlessness Impenitence Infidelity Massah Meribah Scoffing

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-13)

After thirty-eight years’ tedious marches, or rather tedious rests, in the wilderness, backward towards the Red Sea, the armies of Israel now at length set their faces towards Canaan again, and had come not far off from the place where they were when, by the righteous sentence of divine Justice, they were made to begin their wanderings. Hitherto they had been led about as in a maze or labyrinth, w…

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

(vv. 13)

2-13. there was no water for the congregation--There was at Kadesh a fountain, En-Mishpat (Ge 14:7), and at the first encampment of the Israelites there was no want of water. It was then either partially dried up by the heat of the season, or had been exhausted by the demands of so vast a multitude.