Numbers 20:13
These are the waters of Meribah [Quarreling]; because the children of Israel [God prevails] strove with Yahweh M’Kaddesh [Yahweh our Santifier / He sustains breathing who makes you holy] who was set apart by them. (LY:4)
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Exodus 17:7He called the name of the place Massah [Testing], and Meribah [Quarreling], because the children of Israel [God prevails] quarreled, and because they tested Adonai, saying, “Is Adonai among us, or not?”
Deuteronomy 33:8About Levi [United with] he said, 1 “Your Thummim ·Perfections· and your 'Urim ·Lights· are with your pious one, 2 whom you proved at Massah [Testing], 2 with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah [Quarreling]. 1
Psalms 95:8Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah [Quarreling], + 95:8. (7-8) Quoted in Heb 3:13, 3:15, 4:7, (partially in Heb 3:13, 3:16) 2 as in the day of Massah [Testing] in the wilderness, 1
Isaiah 5:16but Adonai Tzva'ot [Yahweh Commander of heaven’s armies] is exalted in mishpat ·justice·, 2 and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness. 1
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 →