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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