Exodus 17:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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?

Massah

Numbers 20:13

Deuteronomy 9:22

Chiding

Exodus 17:2

Tempted

Psalm 95:8

Hebrews 3:8

Is the lord

Acts 7:37

Bible References

Massah

These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel went against the Lord, and they saw that he was holy among them.

Again at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you made the Lord angry.

Chiding

So the people were angry with Moses, and said, Give us water for drinking. And Moses said, Why are you angry with me? and why do you put God to the test?

Tempted

Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;

Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,

Is the lord

And he said, If now I have grace in your eyes, let the Lord go among us, for this is a stiff-necked people, and give us forgiveness for our wrongdoing and our sin, and take us for your heritage.

In that day my wrath will be moved against them, and I will be turned away from them, veiling my face from them, and destruction will overtake them, and unnumbered evils and troubles will come on them; so that in that day they will say, Have not these evils come on us because our God is not with us?

And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, said to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh, Now we are certain that the Lord is among us, because you have not done this wrong against the Lord: and you have kept us from falling into the hands of the Lord.

Let your voice be sounding in a cry of joy, O daughter of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.

Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.

And so the Word became flesh and took a place among us for a time; and we saw his glory--such glory as is given to an only son by his father--saw it to be true and full of grace.

This is the same Moses, who said to the children of Israel, God will give you a prophet from among your brothers, like me.