Numbers 20:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.

Smote

The water

General references

Psalm 78:15

Psalm 114:8

James 1:20

Bible References

Smote

“Take the staff and assemble the community. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will yield its water. You will bring out water for them from the rock and provide drink for the community and their livestock.”

Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu each took his own firepan, put fire in it, placed incense on it, and presented unauthorized fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them to do.

When Samuel came to him, Saul said, “May the Lord bless you. I have carried out the Lord’s instructions.”

and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Because you rebelled against the command of the Lord and did not keep the command that the Lord your God commanded you—

When they came to Chidon’s threshing floor, Uzzah reached out to hold the ark because the oxen had stumbled.

Then David said, “No one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, because the Lord has chosen them to carry the ark of the Lord and to minister before Him forever.”

teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

for man’s anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness.

The water

I am going to stand there in front of you on the rock at Horeb; when you hit the rock, water will come out of it and the people will drink.” Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

He led you through the great and terrible wilderness with its poisonous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty land where there was no water. He brought water out of the flint-like rock for you.

I knew you in the wilderness,
in the land of drought.

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ.

General references

He split rocks in the wilderness
and gave them drink as abundant as the depths.

who turned the rock into a pool of water,
the flint into a spring of water.

for man’s anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness.