Numbers 20:13

These [are] the waters of Meribah, because the sons of Israel have “striven” with YHWH, and He is sanctified among them.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.

In Context

12And YHWH says to Moses and to Aaron, “Because you have not believed in Me to sanctify Me before the eyes of the sons of Israel, therefore you do not bring in this assembly to the land which I have given to them.”

14And Moses sends messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, “Thus said your brother Israel: You have known all the travail which has found us,

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Cross References

Exodus 17:7and he calls the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the strife of the sons of Israel, and because of their trying YHWH, saying, “Is YHWH in our midst or not?”

Deuteronomy 33:8And of Levi he said: Your Perfections and your Lights [are] for your pious one, || Whom You have tried in Massah, || You strive with him at the waters of Meribah;

Psalms 95:8Do not harden your heart as [in] Meribah, || As [in] the day of Massah in the wilderness,

Isaiah 5:16And YHWH of Hosts is high in judgment, || And the Holy God sanctified in righteousness,

Ezekiel 36:23And I have sanctified My great Name, || That is profaned among the nations, || That you have defiled in your midst, || And the nations have known that I [am] YHWH, || A declaration of Lord YHWH, || In My being sanctified in you before your eyes.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 20:2-14

The Death of Miriam; The Water of Meribah; Moses and Aaron Reproved. ( b. c. 1453.) 1 Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there. 2 And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. 3 And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord ! 4 And why… Read the whole commentary →

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