Psalm 78:16

Lessons From Israel's Past

¹⁵ He split rocks in the wilderness
and gave them drink as abundant as the depths.
¹⁶ He brought streams out of the stone
and made water flow down like rivers. ¹⁷ But they continued to sin against Him,
rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

Kadesh

Rephidim

Numbers 20:8

“Take the staff and assemble the community. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will yield its water. You will bring out water for them from the rock and provide drink for the community and their livestock.”

Numbers 20:10-11

Moses and Aaron summoned the assembly in front of the rock, and Moses said to them, “Listen, you rebels! Must we bring water out of this rock for you?”

Deuteronomy 8:15

He led you through the great and terrible wilderness with its poisonous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty land where there was no water. He brought water out of the flint-like rock for you.

Deuteronomy 9:21

I took the sinful calf you had made, burned it up, and crushed it, thoroughly grinding it to powder as fine as dust. Then I threw it into the stream that came down from the mountain.

Psalm 105:41

He opened a rock, and water gushed out;
it flowed like a stream in the desert.