Parallel Verses

World English Bible

These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.

New American Standard Bible

Those were the waters of Meribah, because the sons of Israel contended with the Lord, and He proved Himself holy among them.

King James Version

This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.

Holman Bible

These are the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the Lord, and He showed His holiness to them.

International Standard Version

Because the Israelis argued with the LORD and he was set apart among them, this place was called the Meribah Springs.

A Conservative Version

These are the waters of Meribah, because the sons of Israel strove with LORD, and he was sanctified in them.

American Standard Version

These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Jehovah, and he was sanctified in them.

Amplified

These are the waters of Meribah (contention, strife), where the sons of Israel contended with the Lord, and He showed Himself holy among them.

Bible in Basic English

These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel went against the Lord, and they saw that he was holy among them.

Darby Translation

These are the waters of Meribah, where the children of Israel contended with Jehovah, and he hallowed himself in them.

Julia Smith Translation

These the Waters of Strife, because the sons of Israel strove with Jehovah, and he will be consecrated in them.

King James 2000

This is the water of Meribah, because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified among them.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Those [were] the waters of Meribah, where the {Israelites} quarreled with Yahweh, and he showed himself holy among them.

Modern King James verseion

These are the Waters of Strife, because the sons of Israel fought with Jehovah, and He showed Himself holy among them.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

This is the water of strife, because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified upon them.

NET Bible

These are the waters of Meribah, because the Israelites contended with the Lord, and his holiness was maintained among them.

New Heart English Bible

These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.

The Emphasized Bible

The same, were the waters of Meribah that is "Contention"in that the sons of Israel contended with Yahweh, - and so he hallowed himself among them.

Webster

This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.

Youngs Literal Translation

These are waters of Meribah, because the sons of Israel have 'striven' with Jehovah, and He is sanctified upon them.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
This is
המּה הם 
hem 
Usage: 517

of Meribah
מריבה 
M@riybah 
Usage: 8

of Israel
ישׂראל 
Yisra'el 
Usage: 2505

רוּב ריבo 
Riyb 
Usage: 66

with the Lord

Usage: 0

and he was sanctified
קדשׁ 
Qadash 
Usage: 171

Context Readings

Miriam Dies

12 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you didn't believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them." 13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them. 14 Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: "Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the travail that has happened to us:



Cross References

Exodus 17:7

He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, "Is Yahweh among us, or not?"

Psalm 95:8

Don't harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

Deuteronomy 33:8

Of Levi he said, "Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you strove at the waters of Meribah;

Deuteronomy 32:51

because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn't sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel.

Psalm 106:32-48

They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;

Isaiah 5:16

but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

Ezekiel 20:41

As a pleasant aroma will I accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples, and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.

Ezekiel 36:23

I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, says the Lord Yahweh, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

Ezekiel 38:16

and you shall come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land: it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.

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