Exodus 17:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁷ And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ He called the place Massah [proof] and Meribah [contention] because of the faultfinding of the Israelites and because they tempted and tried the patience of the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us or not?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and because they tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us, or not?

Common English Bible

⁷ He called the place Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites argued with and tested the LORD, asking, “Is the LORD really with us or not?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ And he called the name of that place 'Temptation,' because of the arguing of the sons of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying: "Is the Lord with us, or not?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ And he called the name of that place Temptation, because the chiding of the children of Israel; and for that they tempted the Lord, saying: Is the Lord amongst us or not?

Exodus 17:7 Cross References

Psalm 106:32

They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, So that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:

Psalm 78:18

And they tempted God in their heart By asking meat for their lust.

Psalm 81:7

Thou calledst in trouble, And I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah

Psalm 81:8

Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!

Psalm 95:8

Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness:

Exodus 17:2

Wherefore the people strove with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why strive ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?

Exodus 34:9

And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.

Isaiah 12:6

Cry aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

Micah 3:11

The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.

Numbers 14:22

because all those men which have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

Numbers 20:13

These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.

Numbers 20:24

Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.

Numbers 27:14

because ye rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes. (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)

John 1:14

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.

Deuteronomy 31:17

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come upon them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?

Deuteronomy 33:8

And of Levi he said, Thy Thummim and thy Urim are with thy godly one, Whom thou didst prove at Massah, With whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;

Deuteronomy 6:16

Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

Deuteronomy 9:22

And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.

Joshua 22:31

And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we know that the LORD is in the midst of us, because ye have not committed this trespass against the LORD: now have ye delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.