World English Bible
Numbers 20:11
“Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice: and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.”
Numbers 20:11 in the King James Version
And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.Read Numbers 20:11 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — Numbers 20
Moses took the rod from before Yahweh, as he commanded him.
Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels; shall we bring you water out of this rock for you?
Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice: and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.
Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you didn't believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.
These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.
Cross references for Numbers 20:11
- 1 Corinthians 10:4
and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
- Exodus 17:6
Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink." Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 8:15
who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint;
- Numbers 20:8
Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water; and you shall bring forth to them water out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and...
- Psalms 78:16
He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
- Hosea 13:5
I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
- James 1:20
for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.
- Matthew 28:20
teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
- 1 Samuel 15:24
Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
- 1 Chronicles 15:13
For because you didn't carry it at first, Yahweh our God made broke out against us, because we didn't seek him according to the ordinance.
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Israel’s wilderness journey, marked by rebellion, discipline, and God’s faithfulness.
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