Numbers 20:11

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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 rod, and gather the assembly, you and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes. And it shall give forth its water, and you shall bring forth to them water out of the rock. So you shall give the congregation and their animals drink.

And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, and put incense on it, and offered strange fire before Jehovah, which He had not commanded them.

And Samuel came to Saul. And Saul said to him, You are blessed of Jehovah. I have done the command of Jehovah.

And he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, So says Jehovah, Because you have not obeyed the mouth of Jehovah and have not kept the command which Jehovah your God commanded you,

And when they came to the threshing-floor of Chidon, Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark for the oxen stumbled.

Then David said, No one ought to carry the ark of God except the Levites, for God has chosen them to carry the ark of God, and to minister to Him forever.

teaching them to observe all things, whatever I commanded you. And, behold, I am with you all the days until the end of the world. Amen.

For the wrath of man does not work out the righteousness of God.

The water

Behold, I will stand before you there upon the rock in Horeb. And you shall smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, so that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

He led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground, where there was no water, who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint,

I have known you in the wilderness, in the land of great dryness.

and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank of the spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.

General references

He split the rocks in the wilderness, and let them drink, as from the great depths.

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

For the wrath of man does not work out the righteousness of God.