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 78:18And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
• Ps 78:41Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
• 1 Cor 10:9Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
• Deut 6:16Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
• Heb 3:9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
• Isa 7:12But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
• Matt 4:7Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
• Ps 95:9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
• Acts 15:10Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
• Num 20:2–5And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
• Num 21:5And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
• Mal 3:15And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
• Acts 5:9Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.
• Ps 78:56Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
• Exod 14:11–12And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
• Ps 106:14But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
• Num 14:22Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
• Luke 4:12And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
• Exod 17:7And 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?
• Exod 15:24And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
• Exod 16:2–3And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
• Luke 15:12And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.
• 1 Sam 8:6But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
• Num 11:4–6And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
• Exod 5:21And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
• Matt 16:1–3The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
• Num 14:2And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
• Gen 30:1–2And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

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