Numbers 20:13 Parallel Translations

This was the oasis of Meribah Complaining, where the Israelites complained about the LORD and where he showed them he was holy.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.

ASV:

These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Jehovah, and he was sanctified in them.

BBE:

These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel went against the Lord, and they saw that he was holy among them.

DBY:

These are the waters of Meribah, where the children of Israel contended with Jehovah, and he hallowed himself in them.

ERV:

These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.

JPS:

These are the waters of Meribah, where the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and He was sanctified in them.

WBS:

This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.

WEB:

These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.

YLT:

These are waters of Meribah, because the sons of Israel have 'striven' with Jehovah, and He is sanctified upon them.

Numbers 20:13 Cross References

XREF:

Exodus 17:7 He named the place Massah and Meribah because of the quarrel of the sons of Israel, and because they tested the LORD, saying, "Is the LORD among us, or not?"

Psalm 95:8 Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness, (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

20:13 This [is] the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he {h} was sanctified in them.
(h) By showing himself almighty and maintaining his glory.

WES:

20:13 Meribah - That is, strife. In them - Or, among them, the children of Israel, by the demonstration of his omnipotency, veracity, and clemency towards the Israelites, and of his impartial holiness and severity against sin even in his greatest friends and favourites.

MHC:

20:1-13 After thirty-eight years' tedious abode in the wilderness, the armies of Israel advanced towards Canaan again. There was no water for the congregation. We live in a wanting world, and wherever we are, must expect to meet with something to put us out. It is a great mercy to have plenty of water, a mercy which, if we found the want of, we should more own the worth of. Hereupon they murmured against Moses and Aaron. They spake the same absurd and brutish language their fathers had done. It made their crime the worse, that they had smarted so long for the discontent and distrusts of their fathers, yet they venture in the same steps. Moses must again, in God's name, command water out of a rock for them; God is as able as ever to supply his people with what is needful for them. But Moses and Aaron acted wrong. They took much of the glory of this work of wonder to themselves; Must we fetch water? As if it were done by some power or worthiness of their own. They were to speak to the rock, but they smote it. Therefore it is charged upon them, that they did not sanctify God, that is, they did not give to him alone that glory of this miracle which was due unto his name. And being provoked by the people, Moses spake unadvisedly with his lips. The same pride of man would still usurp the office of the appointed Mediator; and become to ourselves wisdom, righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. Such a state of sinful independence, such a rebellion of the soul against its Saviour, the voice of God condemns in every page of the gospel.

CONC:

Contended Hallowed Holy Israelites Meribah Mer'ibah Proved Quarreled Sanctified Showed Sons Striven Strove Waters

Children Contended Hallowed Holy Israel Israelites Meribah Mer'ibah Proved Quarreled Sanctified Showed Striven Strove Water Waters

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