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 summon the community, you and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will give water. Bring out for them water from the rock, and let the community and their livestock drink."

And Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu each took his censer, and they put fire in them and placed incense on it; then they presented {before} Yahweh illegitimate fire, which he had not commanded them.

When Samuel came to Saul, Saul said to him, "May you be blessed by Yahweh! I have kept the word of Yahweh."

He proclaimed to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, "Thus says Yahweh: 'Because you have disobeyed the word of Yahweh and have not kept the command which Yahweh your God commanded you,

And when they came to the threshing floor of Kidon, Uzza reached out his hand to hold the ark because the cattle had stumbled.

Then David ordered [that] none except the Levites should carry the ark of God, for Yahweh had chosen them to carry the ark of Yahweh and to serve him forever.

teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you all the days until the end of the age."

for human anger does not accomplish the righteousness of God.

The water

Look, I [will be] standing before you there on the rock in Horeb, and you will strike the rock, and water will come out from it, and the people will drink." And Moses did so before the eyes of the elders of Israel.

the one leading you in the great and terrible desert [infested] with {dangerous} snakes and scorpions and parched ground, where there is no water, [and] the one bringing out water for you from flint rock,

I fed you in the desert, in the land of drought.

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

General references

He caused rocks to split in the wilderness and provided drink abundantly as [from the] depths.

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

for human anger does not accomplish the righteousness of God.