Exodus 17:2
2 aTherefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you btest the Lord?”Exodus 17:7
7And he called the name of the place cMassah ▼▼ Massah means testing
and eMeribah, ▼▼ Meribah means quarreling
because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the Lord by saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?” Numbers 20:3-4
3And the people gquarreled with Moses and said, “Would that we had perished hwhen our brothers perished before the Lord! 4Why have you brought the assembly of the Lord into this wilderness, that we should die here, both we and our cattle?Numbers 20:13
13 iThese are the waters of Meribah, ▼▼ Meribah means quarreling
where the people of Israel quarreled with the Lord, and through them he showed himself holy. Numbers 21:4-5
The Bronze Serpent
4From Mount Hor kthey set out by the way to the Red Sea, lto go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way. 5And the people mspoke against God and against Moses, n“Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and owe loathe this worthless food.”Psalms 95:8-9
8 pdo not harden your hearts, as at qMeribah,as on the day at rMassah in the wilderness,
9when your fathers put me to the stest
and put me to the proof, though they had seen my twork.
1 Corinthians 10:9
9We must not put Christ ▼▼Some manuscripts the Lord
to the test, vas some of them did and wwere destroyed by serpents, Hebrews 3:8-9
8do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,on the day of testing in the wilderness,
9where your fathers put me to the test
and saw my works for xforty years.
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