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Exodus 17:7

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And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us, or not?
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  1. Psalms 81:7Rank 1 from verse 7
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    7Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

  2. Numbers 20:13Rank 2 from verse 7
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    13This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.

  3. Psalms 95:8Rank 3 from verse 7
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    8Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

  4. Deuteronomy 9:22Rank 4 from verse 7
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    22And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the Lord to wrath.

  5. Exodus 17:2Rank 5 from verse 7
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    2Wherefore 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?

  6. Hebrews 3:8–9Rank 6 from verse 7
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    8Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

    9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

  7. Acts 7:37–39Rank 7 from verse 7
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    37¶ This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.

    38This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

    39To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

  8. Numbers 20:24Rank 8 from verse 7
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    24Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.

  9. Deuteronomy 31:17Rank 9 from verse 7
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    17Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?

  10. Exodus 34:9Rank 10 from verse 7
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    9And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.

  11. Isaiah 12:6Rank 11 from verse 7
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    6Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

  12. John 1:14Rank 12 from verse 7
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    14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

  13. Joshua 22:31Rank 13 from verse 7
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    31And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the Lord is among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against the Lord: now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the Lord.

  14. Micah 3:11Rank 14 from verse 7
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    11The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.

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Exodus 17:7

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called

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of call. Sense 1: To name. Sense 2: To summon or invite. Sense 3: To proclaim or address. Sense 4: To request.

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

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name

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Sense 1: A word, appellation, or designation by which a person or thing is called or known. Sense 2: The person or persons named or represented. Sense 3: Reputation, character, renown, or remembrance. Sense 4: The authority, behalf, or standing represented by a name. Sense 5: As a verb, to call, designate, or mention by name.

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

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place

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Sense 1: A physical location or room. Sense 2: A position or office. Sense 3: An occasion, circumstance, or passage. Sense 4: To set, fix, locate, or establish.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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Massah

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Massah, the place named for Israel's testing of the Lord in the wilderness.

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children

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Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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Israel

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The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called.

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tempted

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of tempt. Sense 1: To try, test, put to the test. Sense 2: To entice toward evil.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

us

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The first-person plural object pronoun, referring to the speaker together with one or more others as recipients or objects of an action or relation.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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17:1AND all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the Lord, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.

17:2Wherefore 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?

17:3And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

17:4And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.

17:5And the Lord said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.

17:6Behold, 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.

17:7And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us, or not?

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