Exodus 17:2

New English Translation

So the people contended with Moses, and they said, “Give us water to drink!” Moses said to them, “Why do you contend with me? Why do you test the Lord?”

Cross References

Psalm 106:13

They quickly forgot what he had done; they did not wait for his instructions.

Psalm 106:14

In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving for meat; they challenged God in the desert.

Psalm 78:18

They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.

Psalm 78:41

They again challenged God, and offended the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 78:56

Yet they challenged and defied the sovereign God, and did not obey his commands.

Psalm 95:8

He says, “Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,

Psalm 95:9

where your ancestors challenged my authority, and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.

Exodus 15:24

So the people murmured against Moses, saying, “What can we drink?”

Exodus 16:8

Moses said, “You will know this when the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening and bread in the morning to satisfy you, because the Lord has heard your murmurings that you are murmuring against him. As for us, what are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the Lord.”

Exodus 17:7

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

Exodus 5:21

and they said to them, “May the Lord look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the opinion of Pharaoh and his servants, so that you have given them an excuse to kill us!”

Isaiah 7:12

But Ahaz responded, “I don’t want to ask; I don’t want to put the Lord to a test.”

Malachi 3:15

So now we consider the arrogant to be happy; indeed, those who practice evil are successful. In fact, those who challenge God escape!’”

Numbers 14:2

And all the Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had perished in this wilderness!

Numbers 14:22

For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me,

Numbers 21:5

And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we detest this worthless food.”

Matthew 4:7

Jesus said to him, “Once again it is written: ‘You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.’”

Luke 15:12

The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate that will belong to me.’ So he divided his assets between them.

Luke 4:12

Jesus answered him, “It is said, ‘You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.’”

Acts 15:10

So now why are you putting God to the test by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?

Acts 5:9

Peter then told her, “Why have you agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look! The feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out!”

1 Corinthians 10:9

And let us not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.

Deuteronomy 6:16

You must not put the Lord your God to the test as you did at Massah.

Deuteronomy 9:22

Moreover, you continued to provoke the Lord at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.

Hebrews 3:9

“There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.

1 Samuel 8:6

But this request displeased Samuel, for they said, “Give us a king to lead us.” So Samuel prayed to the Lord.