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 tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
• Ps 78:41They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
• 1 Cor 10:9Let us not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
• Deut 6:16You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
• Heb 3:9where your fathers tested me by proving me, and saw my deeds for forty years.
• Isa 7:12But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, neither will I tempt Yahweh.”
• Matt 4:7Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’”
• Ps 95:9when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.
• Acts 15:10Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
• Num 20:2–5There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
• Num 21:5The people spoke against God, and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread.”
• Mal 3:15Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’
• Acts 5:9But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”
• Ps 78:56Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies;
• Exod 14:11–12They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?
• Ps 106:14but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.
• Num 14:22because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
• Luke 4:12Jesus answering, said to him, “It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’”
• Exod 17:7He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”
• Exod 15:24The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”
• Exod 16:2–3The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;
• Luke 15:12The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ He divided his livelihood between them.
• 1 Sam 8:6But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” Samuel prayed to Yahweh.
• Num 11:4–6The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?
• Exod 5:21and they said to them, “May Yahweh look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.”
• Matt 16:1–3The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
• Num 14:2All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!
• Gen 30:1–2When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

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