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Psalms 106:32

They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;

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  • WEB World English Bible

    They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;

  • KJV King James Version

    They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    They angered Him also at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses because of them;

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Cross-references (8)

Passages linked to Psalms 106:32 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Numbers 20:2-13 There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh! Why have you brought Yahweh’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals? Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.” Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces. Yahweh’s glory appeared to them. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it pour out its water. You shall bring water to them out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink.” Moses took the rod from before Yahweh, as he commanded him. Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?” Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank. Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.” These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.
  • Numbers 20:23-24 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying, “Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.
  • Deuteronomy 1:37 Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying, “You also shall not go in there.
  • Deuteronomy 4:21 Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance;
  • Psalms 81:7 You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.”
  • Numbers 27:13-14 When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered; because in the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, to honor me as holy at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)
  • Deuteronomy 3:26 But Yahweh was angry with me because of you, and didn’t listen to me. Yahweh said to me, “That is enough! Speak no more to me of this matter.
  • Psalms 78:40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

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Explain this verse (14 sources)

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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 32 And they provoked him The prophet mentions another…

32 And they provoked him The prophet mentions another offense of which they were guilty, in that, they contended with God at the waters of strife, from which circumstance that place derived its name. The clamor was, it is true, raised directly against Moses, but if we examine the matter properly, we will find that they virtually murmured against God himself. And to point out the aggravation of their offense, he says that Moses was hardly dealt with on their account. From this it may be inferred that their transgression was very heinous, in that God did not spare even his own servant, whom he had chosen in preference to all others. We do not deny that Moses deserved that punishment; but if we search for the origin of the trespass, we will find that it was the sin of the people that was visited upon him. If Moses was prevented from entering the land of Canaan, because through the influence of the sin of others, and in opposition to the convictions of his own mind, he had been hurried on to the commission of iniquity, how much more inexcusable is the impiety of that people who deliberately strove with God, and by their folly and fretfulness, brought in Moses for a share of their guilt?

John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice.

Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain If so notable a Prophet of God escape not…
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 106:32 They angered [him] also at the waters…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Or, because of them, upon occasion of their unbelief…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain They angered him also at the waters of strife,....…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Psa 106:32-33. They angered him also at the waters…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain They angered him also at the waters of strife…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 32. Waters of strife—Hebrew, the waters of Meribah. This…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 32. They angered him] Another Deuteronomic word (Deu_9:7-8; Deu_9:22).…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (32, 33) The insurrection against Moses and Aaron at…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain They angered him also at the waters of strife;…
Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 32. They angered him also at the waters…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain They angered Him also at the waters of strife,…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 This is a place. (See: How to Translate Names)

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