Exodus 17:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?

The people

Give us

Genesis 30:1

1 Samuel 8:6

Luke 15:12

Wherefore

General references

1 Samuel 8:8

Bible References

The people

and they said unto them, The LORD look upon you and judge because ye have made our savour to be a stench before Pharaoh and his slaves, putting a sword in their hands to slay us.

And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why hast thou dealt thus with us, to bring us forth out of Egypt?

Then the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

And the whole congregation of the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness;

And the vulgar who were mixed in among them returned to their lust; and even the sons of Israel wept and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

And all the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, and the whole congregation said unto them, Oh, that we might die in the land of Egypt or that we might die in this wilderness!

And the people contended with Moses and spoke, saying, Oh, that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!

And the people spoke against God and against Moses, Why have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loathes this light bread.

Give us

And when Rachel saw that she gave Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister and said unto Jacob, Give me sons, or else I will die.

But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.

and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of the estate that falls to me. And he divided unto them his living.

Wherefore

And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah because of the chiding of the sons of Israel and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?

And the whole congregation of the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness;

Because all those men who saw my glory and my signs which I have done in Egypt and in the wilderness and have tempted me now these ten times and have not hearkened to my voice,

Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

And they tempted God in their heart by asking for food according to the desires of their soul.

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

They gave themselves over to lust in the wilderness and tempted God in the desert.

But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.

We say, therefore, now, that blessed are the proud and even that those that work wickedness are prospered; those that tempted God have escaped.

Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

The Pharisees and the Sadducees came to tempt him; they asked him to show them a sign from the heaven.

And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried thy husband are at the door and shall carry thee out.

Now therefore why tempt ye God, putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

Neither let us tempt the Christ, as some of them also tempted and perished by the serpents.

Where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

General references

According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, with which they have forsaken me and served other gods, so they also do unto thee.