Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.

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Bible References

Ye rebelled

Numbers 20:8
“Take the rod; and you and your brother Aaron assemble the congregation and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it may yield its water. You shall thus bring forth water for them out of the rock and let the congregation and their beasts drink.”
Deuteronomy 1:37
The Lord was angry with me also on your account, saying, ‘Not even you shall enter there.
Deuteronomy 32:51
because you broke faith with Me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, because you did not treat Me as holy in the midst of the sons of Israel.
Psalm 106:32
They also provoked Him to wrath at the waters of Meribah,
So that it went hard with Moses on their account;

Meribah

Numbers 20:1
Then the sons of Israel, the whole congregation, came to the wilderness of Zin in the first month; and the people stayed at Kadesh. Now Miriam died there and was buried there.
Exodus 17:7
He named the place Massah and Meribah because of the quarrel of the sons of Israel, and because they tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us, or not?”

General references

Deuteronomy 1:37
The Lord was angry with me also on your account, saying, ‘Not even you shall enter there.

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