Exodus 17:1

CONTENTS

This is a most interesting Chapter, and when explained to us by the gospel as it is in the outlines of it by one of the apostles, serves to show how much redemption work occupied the divine mind, when in so many ages before its accomplishment, Christ was held forth to the Church in type and figure. Here therefore, let the Reader particularly keep in view, that Moses wrote of Jesus. The children of Israel in their journeying through the wilderness, depart from Sin and arrive at Rephidim. Murmurings again break forth in the camp from the want of water. Moses cries to God. God causeth water to issue from the rock. After this the host of Amalek comes forth to obstruct Israel; but is defeated. God commands Moses to record this event in a book. These are the contents of this Chapter.

Exodus 17:1

Reader! Keep in view, that this journeying of Israel was according to the commandment of the Lord, and under the direction of the pillar of cloud: and yet they wanted water. So is it in our spiritual warfare; the very path the Lord appoints may be a thorny path. Psalms 107:4.