Exodus 17:7

Modern English Version

He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the contending of the Israelites, and because they tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us, or not?”

Cross References

Psalm 106:32

They angered Him also at the waters of Meribah, so that it went ill with Moses on their account,

Psalm 78:18

They tested God in their heart by asking for the food they craved.

Psalm 81:7

You called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah.   Selah

Psalm 81:8

Hear, O My people, and I will admonish you. O Israel, if you would listen to me!

Psalm 95:8

do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day of Massah in the wilderness,

Exodus 17:2

Therefore the people contended with Moses and said, “Give us water so that we may drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you contend with me? Why do you test the Lord?”

Exodus 34:9

He said, “If now I have found favor in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, for we are a stiff-necked people. Pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

Isaiah 12:6

Cry out and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Zion. For great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst.

Micah 3:11

Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet upon the Lord they lean, saying, “Is not the Lord in our midst? Evil will not come upon us.”

Numbers 14:22

Because all those men seeing My glory and My signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted Me now these ten times, and have not listened to My voice,

Numbers 20:13

This is the water of Meribah because the Israelites argued with the Lord, and He was sanctified among them.

Numbers 20:24

“Aaron will be gathered to his people because he will not enter into the land which I have given to the Israelites because you rebelled against Me at the water of Meribah.

Numbers 27:14

For you rebelled against My commandment in the Wilderness of Zin when the congregation argued against Me. You did not show My holiness at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meribah in Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin.)

John 1:14

The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, the glory as of the only begotten Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Deuteronomy 31:17

Then My anger will burn against them on that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide My face from them, and they will be devoured, and many disasters and troubles will befall them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is not among us?’

Deuteronomy 33:8

Of Levi he said: Let Your Thummim and Your Urim be with Your godly one, whom You tested at Massah, and with whom You contended at the waters of Meribah,

Deuteronomy 6:16

You shall not tempt the Lord your God, as you tempted Him in Massah.

Deuteronomy 9:22

Also at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked the Lord to wrath.

Joshua 22:31

Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest said to the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh, “Today we know that the Lord is in our midst because you did not violate your obligations to the Lord in this matter. Indeed, you have delivered the Israelites from the judgment of the Lord.”