This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThese are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Jehovah, and he was sanctified in them.
These were the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the LORD, and He showed His holiness among them.
These are waters of Meribah, because the sons of Israel have `striven' with Jehovah, and He is sanctified upon them.
These are the waters of Meribah, where the children of Israel contended with Jehovah, and he hallowed himself in them.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentNumbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
- Author
- Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
- Date
- The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC