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 said unto them, "The LORD look unto you and judge! For ye have made the savour of us stink in the sight of Pharaoh and of his servants, and have put a sword into their hands to slay us."

Then said they unto Moses, "Were there no graves for us in Egypt, but thou must bring us away for to die in the wilderness? Wherefore hast thou served us thus, for to carry us out of Egypt?

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

And the whole multitude of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,

And the rascal people that was among them fell a lusting. And the children of Israel also went to, and wept, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat?

and all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron. And the whole congregation said unto them, "Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt, either we would that we had died in this wilderness.

And the people chode with Moses and spake, saying, "Would God that we had perished when our brethren perished before the LORD.

And the people spake against God and against Moses, "Wherefore hast thou brought us out of Egypt, for to die in the wilderness? For here is neither bread nor water, and our souls loatheth this light bread."

Give us

When Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, she envied her sister and said unto Jacob, "Give me children, or else I am but dead."

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 my part of the goods that to me belongeth. And he divided unto them his substance.

Wherefore

And 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?"

And the whole multitude of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,

For of all those men which have seen my glory and my miracles which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now this ten times and have not hearkened unto my voice,

Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God as ye did at Massah.

They tempted God in their hearts, and required meat for their lust.

when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works.

A lust came upon them in the wilderness, so that they tempted God in the desert.

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

Therefore may we say, that the proud are happy, and that they which deal with ungodliness, are set up: for they tempt God and yet escape.'

And Jesus said to him, "It is written also, 'Thou shalt not tempt thy Lord God.'"

Then came to him the Pharisees with the Sadducees also, and did tempt him, desiring him to show them some sign from heaven.

Jesus answered and said to him, "It is said, 'Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'"

Then Peter said unto her, "Why have ye 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."

Now therefore, why tempt ye God, that ye would put a yoke on the disciples necks which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted and were destroyed of serpents.

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

General references

And as they have ever done - since I brought them out of Egypt unto this day, and have forsaken me and served other gods - even so do they unto thee.