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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Exodus 17:2

Wherefore do ye tempt the Lord? By distrusting his power, providence, and faithfulness, upon such a small occasion; by refusing to submit to his will, and to wait upon him in humble fervent prayer for relief; and instead thereof quarrelling with me, as if it were my fault that you want water, and by murmuring against God under my name.

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See also Exodus 17:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 17:2. _WHY CHIDE YE WITH ME?_] God is your leader, complain to him; _Wherefore do ye tempt the Lord_? As he is your leader, all your murmurings against _me_ he considers as directed agai...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    TEMPT THE LORD - It is a general characteristic of the Israelites that the miracles, which met each need as it arose, failed to produce a habit of faith: but the severity of the trial, the faintness a...

  • 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

    CHIDE. Murmuring was good policy. They would not "dig" (as at Beer and Elim). to "beg "they were not ashamed. "Give us water. "See note on Exodus 15:24. WHY CHIDE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ Ap...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AFTER THEIR JOURNEYS,—AND PITCHED IN REPHIDIM— See Numbers 33:12. Rephidim was a dry and sandy part of the desert of _Sin,_ within a march or two of _Sinai;_ where, there being _no water for the peopl...

  • 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

    _WHEREFORE 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?_ People did chide with Moses. Th...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    17:2 tempt (d-30) Or 'prove.' so. ver. 7, 'proved.'...

  • 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

    TEMPT THE LORD] challenge His power and willingness to provide for them, put Him to the proof by their unbelief: cp. Exodus 17:7 see also Numbers 14:22; Numbers 20:13;...

  • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE PEOPLE DID CHIDE. — Water is scanty along the route by which we have supposed Rephidim to have been reached. Such a supply as the people may have brought with them from Elim would have been exhaus...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יָּ֤רֶב הָ עָם֙ עִם ־מֹשֶׁ֔ה וַ

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Wherefore 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 (b) tempt the LORD? (b) Why do you distrust God?...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Chode, quarrelled and murmured. (Haydock) --- Tempt, requiring a miracle, ver. 7._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Sad instance of renewed rebellion. Reader! do not overlook what Paul saith of this: 1 Corinthians 10:6. The expression of tempting the Lord is a strong one. It should seem by the impious question whic...

  • 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 Calvin's Bible Commentary

    2._Wherefore the people did chide with Moses. _Here now displays itself both their impiety against God, since neglecting and despising Him they make war against Moses, and also their malice and unkind...

  • 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

    WHEREFORE THE PEOPLE DID CHIDE WITH MOSES,.... Contended with him by words, expostulating with him in a very angry and indecent manner for bringing them thither; loading him with reproaches and calumn...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Wherefore 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? Ver. 2. _The people did chide wit...

  • 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

    Wherefore the people did chide with Moses and said, Give us water that we may drink. They deliberately challenged Moses for an explanation; they started a quarrel, they wrangled. AND MOSES SAID UNTO T...

  • 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

    By distrusting God's power, and providence, and faithfulness, and goodness, upon such a small occasion, by refusing to submit to God's will, and to wait upon him by humble and fervent prayers for reli...

  • 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 17:2 people H5971 contended H7378 (H8799) Moses H4872 said H559 (H8799) Give H5414 (H8798) 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...

  • 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

    _Give us water, that we may drink._ REPHIDIM: ANCIENT AND MODERN How far have we travelled from Rephidim? This is mere than a question in geography: it is a profound inquiry in morals. How far have w...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 17:2 The people again QUARREL with Moses. He wonders why they continue to TEST THE LORD (see also v....

  • 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

    the people Exodus 5:21 Exodus 14:11 Exodus 14:12 Exodus 15:24 Exodus 16:2...

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