Exodus 17:2 KJV — MannaFest

Exodus 17:2

Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the Lord?

KJV

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ASV

Wherefore the people strove with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why strive ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt Jehovah?

WEB

So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?”

YLT

and the people strive with Moses, and say, `Give us water, and we drink.' And Moses saith to them, `What? --ye strive with me, what? --ye try Jehovah?'

DBT

And the people contended with Moses, and said, Give us water, that we may drink! And Moses said to them, Why do ye dispute with me? Why do ye tempt Jehovah?

About this book

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Exodus — Deliverance, covenant, presence. A slave-people redeemed from Egypt, brought to Sinai, and given a tabernacle so that God might dwell among them.

Author: Moses — traditional attribution; internal narrator identifies Moses as recorder (17:14, 24:4, 34:27)
Date: 15th or 13th century BC, depending on chronology of the exodus

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Matthew 4:7
Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
Deuteronomy 6:16
Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
1 Corinthians 10:9
Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
Psalms 78:18
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
Psalms 78:41
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

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7 ), yet they are ready to demand every thing. They quarrelled with him for bringing them out of Egypt, as if, instead of delivering them, he designed to murder them, than which nothing could be more base and invidious,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

): Why chide you with me? Observe how mildly he answered them; it was well that he was a man of extraordinary meekness, else their tumultuous conduct would have made him lose the possession of himself: it is folly to answer passion with passion, for that makes bad worse; but soft answers turn away wrath.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

), and now God sends Amalekites to quarrel with them; wars abroad are the just punishment of strifes and discontents at home. As Amalek's sin; so it is reckoned, Deut. xxv.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

EXO 17:21CO 10:9 DEU 6:16
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
EXO 17:21CO 10:9 HEB 3:8-11
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
EXO 17:2DEU 6:16 EXO 17:7
EXO 17:2DEU 6:16 LUK 4:12
EXO 17:21CO 10:9 NUM 21:5-6
EXO 17:2DEU 6:16 MAT 4:7
EXO 17:2DEU 6:16 PSA 95:8-9
EXO 17:2DEU 6:16 HEB 3:8-9

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