MERIBAH

Passages on this topic · 9

• Exodus 17:1

  All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to Yahweh’s commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.

• Exodus 17:2

  Therefore 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 Yahweh?”

• Exodus 17:3

  The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”

• Exodus 17:4

  Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”

• Exodus 17:5

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go.

• Exodus 17:6

  Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

• Exodus 17:7

  He 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?”

• Numbers 20:13

  These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.

• Numbers 20:24

  “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.