Exodus 17:7

Young's Literal Translation 1898

and he calleth the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the ‘strife’ of the sons of Israel, and because of their ‘trying’ Jehovah, saying, ‘Is Jehovah in our midst or not?’

Cross References

Psalm 106:32

And they cause wrath by the waters of Meribah, And it is evil to Moses for their sakes,

Psalm 78:18

And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust.

Psalm 81:7

In distress thou hast called and I deliver thee, I answer thee in the secret place of thunder, I try thee by the waters of Meribah. Selah.

Psalm 81:8

Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me:

Psalm 95:8

Harden not your heart as [in] Meribah, As [in] the day of Massah in the wilderness,

Exodus 17:2

and the people strive with Moses, and say, ‘Give us water, and we drink.’ And Moses saith to them, ‘What? — ye strive with me, what? — ye try Jehovah?’

Exodus 34:9

and saith, ‘If, I pray Thee, I have found grace in Thine eyes, O my Lord, let my Lord, I pray Thee, go in our midst (for it [is] a stiff-necked people), and thou hast forgiven our iniquity and our sin, and hast inherited us.’

Isaiah 12:6

Cry aloud, and sing, O inhabitant of Zion, For great in thy midst [is] the Holy One of Israel!’

Micah 3:11

Her heads for a bribe do judge, And her priests for hire do teach, And her prophets for silver divine, And on Jehovah they lean, saying, ‘Is not Jehovah in our midst? Evil doth not come in upon us.’

Numbers 14:22

for all the men who are seeing My honour, and My signs, which I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and try Me these ten times, and have not hearkened to My voice —

Numbers 20:13

These [are] waters of Meribah, because the sons of Israel have ‘striven’ with Jehovah, and He is sanctified upon them.

Numbers 20:24

‘Aaron is gathered unto his people, for he doth not go in unto the land which I have given to the sons of Israel, because that ye provoked My mouth at the waters of Meribah.

Numbers 27:14

because ye provoked My mouth in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the company — to sanctify Me at the waters before their eyes;’ they [are] waters of Meribah, in Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin.

John 1:14

And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.

Deuteronomy 31:17

and Mine anger hath burned against it in that day, and I have forsaken them, and hidden My face from them, and it hath been for consumption, and many evils and distresses have found it, and it hath said in that day, Is it not because that my God is not in my midst — these evils have found me?

Deuteronomy 33:8

And of Levi he said: — Thy Thummim and thy Urim [are] for thy pious one, Whom Thou hast tried in Massah, Thou dost strive with Him at the waters of Meribah;

Deuteronomy 6:16

‘Ye do not try Jehovah your God as ye tried in Massah;

Deuteronomy 9:22

‘And in Taberah, and in Massah, and in Kibroth-Hattaavah, ye have been making Jehovah wroth:

Joshua 22:31

And Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest saith unto the sons of Reuben, and unto the sons of Gad, and unto the sons of Manasseh, ‘To-day we have known that Jehovah [is] in our midst, because ye have not committed against Jehovah this trespass — then ye have delivered the sons of Israel out of the hand of Jehovah.’