Deuteronomy 8:15

New International Reader's Version

He led you through that huge and terrible desert. It was a dry land. It didn’t have any water. It had poisonous snakes and scorpions. The Lord gave you water out of solid rock.

Cross References

Psalm 105:41

He broke open a rock, and streams of water poured out. They flowed like a river in the desert.

Psalm 114:8

He turned the rock into a pool. He turned the hard rock into springs of water.

Psalm 136:16

Give thanks to the God who led his people through the desert. His faithful love continues forever.

Isaiah 30:6

Here is a prophecy the Lord gave me about the animals in the Negev Desert. Judah’s messengers carry their riches on the backs of donkeys. They carry their treasures on the humps of camels. They travel through a land of danger and suffering. It’s a land filled with lions. Poisonous snakes are also there. The messengers travel to a nation that can’t do them any good.

Isaiah 35:7

The burning sand will become a pool of water. The thirsty ground will become bubbling springs. In the places where wild dogs once lay down, tall grass and papyrus will grow.

Isaiah 43:19

I am about to do something new. It is beginning to happen even now. Don’t you see it coming? I am going to make a way for you to go through the desert. I will make streams of water in the dry and empty land.

Jeremiah 2:6

They did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord? He brought us up out of Egypt. He led us through a dry and empty land. He guided us through deserts and deep valleys. It was a land of total darkness where there wasn’t any rain. No one lived or traveled there.’

Hosea 13:5

I took care of you in the desert. It was a land of burning heat.

Numbers 20:11

Then Moses raised his arm. He hit the rock twice with his walking stick. Water poured out. And the people and their livestock drank it.

Numbers 21:6

Then the Lord sent poisonous snakes among the Israelites. The snakes bit them. Many of the people died.

1 Corinthians 10:4

They all drank the same spiritual water. They drank from the spiritual rock that went with them. That rock was Christ.

Deuteronomy 1:19

The Lord our God commanded us to start out from Mount Horeb. So we did. We went toward the hill country of the Amorites. We traveled all through the huge and terrible desert you saw. Finally, we reached Kadesh Barnea.

Deuteronomy 32:13

The Lord made them ride on the highest places in the land. He fed them what grew in the fields. He gave them the sweetest honey. He fed them olive oil from a rocky hillside.