And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.
Parallel translations
- WEB They traveled from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
- BSB They set out from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
- NKJV They moved from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
- NASB And they journeyed from Alush and camped at Rephidim; now it was there that the people had no water to drink.
- NLT They left Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
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Quick answer
They traveled to Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink. This is the place of the water-from-the-rock provision and the conflict over thirst.
Overview
At Rephidim Israel found no water, the setting where God brought water from the rock and where Israel quarreled with the LORD. Paul identifies that rock as a picture of Christ, who gives living water to His people. The notice recalls both human grumbling and divine provision, pointing to the One who satisfies the deepest thirst of those He leads.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 2
- Exod 19:2For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.
- Exod 17:1–8And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
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In the wilderness Christ is the water from the rock, the bronze serpent lifted up that the dying might look and live (John 3:14), and the star and scepter that Balaam saw rising out of Jacob.
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