Psalms 78:15
He struck the rock in the wilderness: and gave them to drink, as out of the great deep.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
In Context
14And he conducted them with a cloud by day: and all the night with a light of
16He brought forth water out of the rock: and made streams run down as rivers.
Cross References
Exodus 17:6Behold I will stand there before thee, upon the rock Horeb: and thou shalt strike the rock, and water shall come out of it that the people may drink. Moses did so before the ancients of Israel:
Psalms 105:41He opened the rock, and waters flowed: rivers ran down in the dry land.
Isaiah 41:18I will open rivers in the high bills, and fountains in the midst of the plains: I will turn the desert into pools of waters, and the impassable land into streams of waters.
Isaiah 48:21They thirsted not in the desert, when he led them out: he brought forth water out of the rock for them, and he clove the rock, and the waters gushed out.
1 Corinthians 10:4And all drank the same spiritual drink; (and they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.)
Revelation 22:17And the spirit and the bride say: Come. And he that heareth, let him say: Come. And he that thirsteth, let him come: and he that will, let him take the water of life, freely.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:10-40
Wonders Wrought in Behalf of Israel; The Crimes of the Israelites; 9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. 10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; 11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had showed them. 12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as a heap. 14 In the daytime… Read the whole commentary →