Numbers 20:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“These were the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the LORD, and He showed His holiness among them.”
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“These were the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the LORD, and He showed His holiness among them.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.”
King James Version · Public Domain“These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Jehovah, and he was sanctified in them.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“These <FI>are<Fi> waters of Meribah, because the sons of Israel have `striven' with Jehovah, and He is sanctified upon them.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Numbers 20:13 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 17:7He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
- Deuteronomy 32:51For at the waters of Meribah-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence.
- Deuteronomy 33:8Concerning Levi he said: “Give Your Thummim to Levi and Your Urim to Your godly one, whom You tested at Massah and contested at the waters of Meribah.
- Psalms 81:8Hear, O My people, and I will warn you: O Israel, if only you would listen to Me!
- Psalms 95:8do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,
- Psalms 106:32At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them.
- Isaiah 5:16But the LORD of Hosts will be exalted by His justice, and the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.
- Ezekiel 20:41When I bring you from the peoples and gather you from the lands to which you have been scattered, I will accept you as a pleasing aroma. And I will show My holiness through you in the sight of the nations.
- Ezekiel 36:23I will show the holiness of My great name, which has been profaned among the nations—the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when I show My holiness in you before their eyes.
- Ezekiel 38:16You will advance against My people Israel like a cloud covering the land. It will happen in the latter days, O Gog, that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me when I show Myself holy in you before their eyes.
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