Psalm 78:20

Look! He struck the rock and water gushed out;
torrents overflowed.
But can He also provide bread
or furnish meat for His people?”

Numbers 20:11

Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, so that a great amount of water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.

Genesis 18:12-14

So she laughed to herself: “After I have become shriveled up and my lord is old, will I have delight?”

Exodus 17:6-7

I am going to stand there in front of you on the rock at Horeb; when you hit the rock, water will come out of it and the people will drink.” Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

Numbers 11:18

“Tell the people: Purify yourselves in readiness for tomorrow, and you will eat meat because you cried before the Lord: ‘Who will feed us meat? We really had it good in Egypt.’ The Lord will give you meat and you will eat.

Numbers 11:21-23

But Moses replied, “I’m in the middle of a people with 600,000 foot soldiers, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’

Psalm 78:41

They constantly tested God
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?

General references

Bible References

He smote

Exodus 17:6
I am going to stand there in front of you on the rock at Horeb; when you hit the rock, water will come out of it and the people will drink.” Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Numbers 20:11
Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, so that a great amount of water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.

Can he give

Psalm 78:41
They constantly tested God
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
Genesis 18:12
So she laughed to herself: “After I have become shriveled up and my lord is old, will I have delight?”
Numbers 11:21
But Moses replied, “I’m in the middle of a people with 600,000 foot soldiers, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’

General references

Leviticus 25:20
If you wonder: ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we don’t sow or gather our produce?’
Matthew 14:17
“But we only have five loaves and two fish here,” they said to Him.

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