Exodus 17:2

The thirsty people quarreled with Moses, demanding water, and Moses asked why they tested Yahweh. Their demand revealed distrust of God's care.

Cross-references · 28

• Ps 78:18They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.
• Ps 78:41Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
• 1 Cor 10:9We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.
• Deut 6:16Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.
• Heb 3:9where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.
• Isa 7:12But Ahaz replied, “I will not ask; I will not test the LORD.”
• Matt 4:7Jesus replied, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”
• Ps 95:9where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
• Acts 15:10Now then, why do you test God by placing on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear?
• Num 20:2–5Now there was no water for the congregation, so they gathered against Moses and Aaron.
• Num 21:5and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”
• Mal 3:15So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”
• Acts 5:9“How could you agree to test the Spirit of the Lord?” Peter replied. “Look, the feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also.”
• Ps 78:56But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
• Exod 14:11–12They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?
• Ps 106:14They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.
• Num 14:22not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
• Luke 4:12But Jesus answered, “It also says, ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”
• Exod 17:7He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
• Exod 15:24So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”
• Exod 16:2–3And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron.
• Luke 15:12The younger son said to him, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them.
• 1 Sam 8:6But when they said, “Give us a king to judge us,” their demand was displeasing in the sight of Samuel; so he prayed to the LORD.
• Num 11:4–6Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?
• Exod 5:21“May the LORD look upon you and judge you,” the foremen said, “for you have made us a stench before Pharaoh and his officials; you have placed in their hand a sword to kill us!”
• Matt 16:1–3Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came and tested Jesus by asking Him to show them a sign from heaven.
• Num 14:2All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!
• Gen 30:1–2When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.

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