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 gather, thou and thy brother Aaron, the congregation together; and say unto the rock, before their eyes, that he give forth his water. And thou shalt bring them water out of the rock and shalt give the company drink, and their beasts also."

And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censor, and put fire therein, and put cense upon; and brought strange fire before the LORD: which he commanded them not.

And when Samuel was come to Saul, Saul said unto him, "Blessed be thou in the LORD. I have done the commandment of the LORD."

And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, "Thus sayeth the LORD: 'Because thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee,

And when they came on the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzzah put forth his hand to hold the ark, for the oxen stumbled.

And then David said, "The Ark of God ought not to be carried but of the Levites. For them hath the LORD chosen to bear the Ark of the LORD and to minister to him forever."

teaching them to observe all things, whatsoever I commanded you. And lo, I am with you always even until the end of the world."

For the wrath of man worketh not that which is righteous before God.

The water

Behold, I will stand there before thee upon a rock in Horeb: and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out thereof, that the people may drink." And Moses did even so before the elders of Israel.

and which led thee in the wilderness both great and terrible with fiery serpents and scorpions and thirst where was no water, which brought the water out of the rock of flint:

I took diligent heed of thee in the wilderness, that dry land.

and did all drink of one manner of spiritual drink. And they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them, Which rock was Christ.

General references

He clove the hard rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink thereof, as it had been out of the great depth.

which turned the hard rock into a standing water, and the flint stone into a springing well.

For the wrath of man worketh not that which is righteous before God.