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1 Corinthians 10:3–4

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And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
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From verse 3

  1. Deuteronomy 8:3Rank 1 from verse 3
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    3And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

  2. Nehemiah 9:15Rank 2 from verse 3
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    15And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.

  3. Exodus 16:35Rank 3 from verse 3
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    35And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.

  4. Exodus 16:4Rank 4 from verse 3
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    4¶ Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.

  5. Nehemiah 9:20Rank 5 from verse 3
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    20Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.

From verse 4

  1. Exodus 17:6Rank 1 from verse 4
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    6Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

  2. John 7:37Rank 2 from verse 4
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    37In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

  3. Isaiah 48:21Rank 3 from verse 4
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    21And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

  4. John 4:14Rank 4 from verse 4
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    14But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

  5. Psalms 105:41Rank 5 from verse 4
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    41He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.

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1 Corinthians 10:3

COMBINED MEANING

eat

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To take food into the body; to consume, devour, or waste away.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

spiritual

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1. Pertaining to spirit or to the Holy Ghost. 2. Nonmaterial or not carnal. 3. Governed by the Spirit.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

meat

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Sense 1: Food, nourishment, sustenance, or provision. Sense 2: Figuratively, that which nourishes or sustains.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

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1 Corinthians 10:4

COMBINED MEANING

spiritual

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1. Pertaining to spirit or to the Holy Ghost. 2. Nonmaterial or not carnal. 3. Governed by the Spirit.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

drank

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Past-tense or past-participial form of drink (to take liquid into the mouth and swallow it).

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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rock

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1. A mass of stone or a rocky place. 2. Figuratively, a secure refuge, strength, foundation, or cause of stumbling. 3. A title or figure for God or Christ.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

Christ

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The Anointed One; the same title as Messias.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Cawdrey 1604 · Webster 1828

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2And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

3And did all eat the same spiritual meat;

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4And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

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5But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

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