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, where the people of Israel quarreled with the LORD, and through them he showed himself holy.

"At Taberah also, and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you provoked the LORD to wrath.

Chiding

Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, "Give us water to drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?"

Tempted

do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,

do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,

Is the lord

And he said, "If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance."

Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, 'Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?'

And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the people of Manasseh, "Today we know that the LORD is in our midst, because you have not committed this breach of faith against the LORD. Now you have delivered the people of Israel from the hand of the LORD."

Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel."

Its heads give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money; yet they lean on the LORD and say, "Is not the LORD in the midst of us? No disaster shall come upon us."

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, 'God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers.'