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Exodus 17:7

WEB

7He called the name of the place Massah,[+] and Meribah,[+] because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us, or not?”

KJV

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?

BSB

7He named the place Massah [+] and Meribah [+] because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”

FBV

7He called the place Massah and Meribah[+] because the Israelites argued there, and because they challenged the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord with us, or not?”

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Extra References

Psalms 81:7

7You 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.


Numbers 20:13

13These are the waters of Meribah;[+] because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.


Psalms 95:8

8Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,


Deuteronomy 9:22

22At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked the LORD to wrath.


Hebrews 3:8-9

8don’t harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of the trial in the wilderness, 9where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.


Exodus 17:2

2Therefore 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 the LORD?”


Numbers 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

37This 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.’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 revelations to give to us, 39to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,


Isaiah 12:6

6Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion, for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”


Micah 3:11

11Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money; yet they lean on the LORD, and say, “Isn’t the LORD among us? No disaster will come on us.”