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8Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
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He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)The psalmist is here remembering the days of old, the years of the right hand of the Most High , and the wonders which their fathers told them of (Jdg. 6:13), for time, as it does not wear out the guilt of sin, so it should not wear out the sense of mercy. Let it never be forgotten, I. That God brought Israel out of the house of bondage with a high hand and a stretched-out arm: Israel went out of…
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