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Exodus 17:6

EXODUS—NOTE ON Exodus 17:6 at Horeb. See note on 3:1. I will stand before you there on the rock. A further example of God’s promise to Moses, “I will be with you” (Exodus 3:12). The Lord’s presence presumably was in the pillar of cloud (see Exodus 13:21). Because of God’s promise to stand there “on the rock,” some interpreters see a close identification between God’s presence and the rock itself. The command, you shall strike the rock, is therefore understood as a command to strike God himself, the source of the life-giving water that flowed from the rock.

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See also Exodus 17:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 17:6. _I WILL STAND BEFORE THEE THERE, UPON THE ROCK IN HOREB_] THE _rock_, הצור hatstsur. It seems as if God had directed the attention of Moses to a _particular_ rock, with which he wa...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE ROCK IN HOREB - (a rock situated, according to Arab tradition, in Wady Feiran. Horeb was a name given to the whole desert of Sinai and subsequently attached to the mountain. Palmer). It is questio...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 17 AT REPHIDIM _ 1. The water from the rock (Exodus 17:1)_ 2. The conflict with Amalek (Exodus 17:8) From Sin they went to Dophkah and Alush before they came to Rephidim (Numbers 33:12). Aga...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 27. WATER FROM THE ROCK (Exodus 17 :1 P (Rephidim), Exodus 17:1 b - Exodus 17:2 a (strove, strive) E, Exodus 17:3 and Exodus 17:2 b (tempt) J,...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos.App-6._ I WILL STAND. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. ROCK:. type of Christ. Frequently referred to (Deuteronomy 32:4; Deuteronomy 32:15;...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 89 MOSES STRIKING THE ROCK Exodus 17:5. And 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, tak...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    I WILL STAND BEFORE THEE THERE UPON THE ROCK IN HOREB— That is, "I will manifest my presence upon a certain rock in Horeb, whence water shall flow upon thy smiting the rock; as proper witnesses of whi...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 17 And all the congregation of the children of Is-ra-el journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to the commandment of Je-ho-vah, and encamped...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND MOSES CRIED UNTO THE LORD, SAYING, WHAT SHALL I DO UNTO THIS PEOPLE? THEY BE ALMOST READY TO STONE ME._ Moses cried unto the Lord. His language, instead of betraying any signs of resentment or v...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    REPHIDIM. MURMURING FOR WATER. OPPOSITION OF AMALEK Leaving the maritime plain the Israelites now strike inland, and after halting at Dophkah and Alush (see Numbers 33:12) they come to Rephidim. This...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    HOREB] see on 31. Tradition identifies the rock with a great detached fragment under the ridge of Ras es-Sufsafeh. This, however, is a long way from the supposed site of Eephidim. At the same time Mos...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 17 WATER AT HOREB – VERSES 1-7 V1 All the *Israelites left the *dese...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הִנְנִ֣י עֹמֵד֩ לְ פָנֶ֨יךָ שָּׁ֥ם ׀ עַֽל ־הַ

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    WATER FROM THE ROCK; VICTORY OVER AMALEK Exodus 17:1 From the smitten rock flowed the water for the thirsty hosts. So the Rock of Ages was smitten, and from His riven side has flowed out blood and wa...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Another trial of their faith came to the people in the lack of water. In view of the fact that they had been provided with bread and flesh, it would seem as if they would have learned enough to be abl...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Before thee, ready to grant thy request at Horeb, a rock to the west of Sinai, and a figure of Jesus Christ, according to St. Paul; who says, (1 Corinthians x. 4,) that the spiritual rock followed the...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here opens to our view the Lord Jesus, in his manifestations to his church and people. Paul's authority under the Holy Ghost is enough to certify the point, This rock he tells us expressly was Christ....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    There is hardly a book of the Old Testament that stands out in more decided contrast with the book of Genesis than the one which follows it most closely. And this is the more striking, because God emp...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 16 AND 17. But now the difficulties of the way arrive. They travel three days without water-a sad effect, in appearance, of such a deliverance; and then the w...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BEHOLD, I WILL STAND BEFORE THEE THERE UPON THE ROCK IN HOREB,.... Or "upon that rock" k, a particular rock which was pointed unto, where the Lord in the pillar of cloud would stand; not as a mere spe...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Behold, 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 elde...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Go before the people_ Though they spoke of stoning him. He must take his rod with him, not to summon some plague to chastise them, but to fetch water for their supply. O the wonderful patience and fo...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    The people murmure for water at Rephidim. 5 God sendeth him for water to the rocke in Horeb. 8 Amalek is ouercome by the holding vp of Moses hands. 15 Moses buildeth the Altar IEHOVAH Nissi. [MURM...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb, whose foot-hills extended down to the neighborhood of the camp; AND THOU SHALT SMITE THE ROCK, AND THERE SHALL COME WATER OUT OF IT THAT...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE MURMURING AT MASSAH AND MERIBAH...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    FIFTH SECTION The journey through the wilderness to Sinai. Want of water. Marah. Elim. The Wilderness of Sin. Quails. Manna. Rephidim (Massah and Meribah). The Amalekites. Jethro and his advice, a hu...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    WATER FROM THE ROCK (vs.1-7) Bread has been provided for the people. Can God provide water also? Why did they not simply appeal to Him in fullest confidence that He would answer just as fully as He...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-7 The children of Israel journeyed according to the commandment of the Lord, led by the pillar of cloud and fire, yet they came to a place where there was no water for them to drink. We may be in t...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I WILL STAND BEFORE THEE THERE, in my cloudy pillar, which shall stand over that place. HOREB and _Sinai_ are sometimes spoken of as the same place, and sometimes as two differing places, as here, com...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    And 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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 17:6 stand H5975 (H8802) before H6440 rock H6697 Horeb H2722 strike H5221 (H8689) rock H6697 water...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    WATER FROM THE ROCK (EXODUS 17:1). The children of Israel leave the wilderness of Sinai and encamp in Rephidim. Its site is uncertain. There they find themselves without water. Considering the continu...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    ROCK The rock, type of life through the Spirit by grace: (1) Christ the Rock (1 Corinthians 10:4). (2) The people utterly unworthy (Exodus 17:2); (Ephesians 2:1). (3) Characteristic

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Smitten rock at Meribah. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Joshua, Aaron, Hur. CONCLUSION: Fed by the Bread of Life; refreshed by the Water of Life (John 7:37) means victory for the believer in ever...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 17:1. _Rephidim._ The plain before Horeb, where the Israelites encamped before they removed to the plain opposite Sinai. Exodus 17:6. _Thou shalt smite the rock._ Horeb was the place where God...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Thou shalt smite the rock._ HOREB; OR, GREAT MERCIES FROM UNLIKELY SOURCES I. The secular department of human history will furnish abundant illustrations of this principle. 1. Does intelligence con...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 17:1. After their journeys.]—Literally, “their breakings up,” alluding to nomad life, and bringing vividly before the mind the _pulling up_ of the _tent-stakes_ and general _br...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE SECOND MUMURING FOR WATER. When the Israelites had come to Rephidim which was probably in the Wady Feiran, near its junction with the Wady Esh-Sheikh, complaint arose, not, as at Marah...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And 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 they pitched in Rephidim: and there was no...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    I will Exodus 16:10 the rock. This rock, which is a vast block of red granite, 15 in Horeb Exodus 3:1 and thou Numbers 20:9 Deuteronomy 8:15...

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