Nehemiah 9:15

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

When they were hungry, you sent bread from heaven, and when they were thirsty, you let water flow from a rock. Then you commanded them to capture the land that you had solemnly promised.

Cross References

Genesis 14:22

Abram answered: The LORD God Most High made the heavens and the earth. And I have promised him

Nehemiah 9:20

Your gentle Spirit instructed them, and you gave them manna to eat and water to drink.

Psalm 114:8

because he turns solid rock into flowing streams and pools of water.

Exodus 16:4

The LORD said to Moses, “I will send bread down from heaven like rain. Each day the people can go out and gather only enough for that day. That's how I will see if they obey me.

Exodus 17:3

But the people were thirsty and kept on complaining, “Moses, did you bring us out of Egypt just to let us and our families and our animals die of thirst?”

Exodus 17:6

and when you get to the rock at Mount Sinai, I will be there with you. Strike the rock with the stick, and water will pour out for the people to drink.” Moses did this while the leaders watched.

Exodus 6:8

I will bring you into the land that I solemnly promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and it will be yours. I am the LORD!”

Isaiah 48:21

He led us through the desert and made water flow from a rock to satisfy our thirst.

Jeremiah 32:23

But when our ancestors took over the land, they did not obey you. And now you have punished Israel with disaster.

Ezekiel 20:15

Instead, I told them in the desert that I would not lead them into the beautiful, fertile land I had promised.

Numbers 14:30

will enter the land that I solemnly promised to give you as your own—only Caleb and Joshua will go in.

Deuteronomy 1:8

I give you this land, just as I promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Now you must go and take the land.

Deuteronomy 8:3

so he made you go hungry. Then he gave you manna, a kind of food that you and your ancestors had never even heard about. The LORD was teaching you that people need more than food to live—they need every word that the LORD has spoken.