Numbers 20:13 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Numbers 20:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The water of Meribah - i. e. “Strife.” The place is called “Meribah in Kadesh” Numbers 27:14 , and “Meribah-Kadesh” Deuteronomy 32:51 . to distinguish it from the “Meribah” of Exodus 17:2 ff....
Numbers 20:13 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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.
Numbers 20:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 20:2-13 (mainly JE). The Lack of Water Supplied by a Miracle. The account of the people's demand for water, and of the means by which it was supplied, seems to be a duplicate of the nar...
Numbers 20:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Meribah . contention. Psalms 106:32 , &c. He was sanctified . He hallowed Himself. See note on "holy", Exodus 3:5 . Compare Ezekiel 38:23 .
Numbers 20:13 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

13. This is the water of Meribah. (110) This name was given: to the place in order that the ingratitude of their fathers might be detestable to their descendants, and hence the mercy of God...
Numbers 20:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
Numbers 20:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

This is the water of Meribah— So called from chiding or strife; and in Deuteronomy 32:51 distinguished from the other Meribah at Horeb, by the name of Meribah Kadesh. Here God was sanctifi...
Numbers 20:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. There was no water for the congregation. There was at Kadesh a fountain, En...
Numbers 20:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Death of Miriam. Murmuring at Meribah. Death of Aaron 1. Miriam dies while the people are at Kadesh (see on Numbers 13:21 ; Numbers 13:26 ). The first month is the first month of the fortieth ye...
Numbers 20:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

This is the water of Meribah. — i.e., of strife. (See Exodus 17:7 , and Note; also Numbers 27:14 , where the words “in Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin,” are added to distinguish the latter fro...
Numbers 20:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

SORROW AND FAILURE AT KADESH Numbers 20:1-29 THERE is a mustering at Kadesh of the scattered tribes, for now the end of the period of wandering approaches, and the generation that has been disc...
Numbers 20:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Sin of Moses and Aaron Numbers 20:1-13 Again the people, as the long years of their Wilderness life drew to an end, gathered around the Tabernacle at Kadesh. Again the murmuring spirit brok...
Numbers 20:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

We now reach the record of events at the close of the forty years. The people were again at Kadesh. Here Miriam died and was buried. A study of the district will show that perhaps the severest part o...
Numbers 20:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It should be observed, that there are two Meribahs. The one is mentioned, Exodus 17:7 . The other is this Meribah-Kadish. Deuteronomy 32:51 .
Numbers 20:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

This is the water of Meribah ,.... Or "strife": this is the name by which the water had in this place, and from this rock, was called; and which is the same name given to the place at Horeb, where a...
Numbers 20:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

This [is] the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them. Ver. 13. And he was sanctified in them. ] By overcoming their evil with good; st...
Numbers 20:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Meribah That is, strife. In them Or, among them, the children of Israel , by the demonstration of his omnipotency, veracity, and clemency toward the Israelites, and of his impartial holiness and...
Numbers 20:13 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

MOSES DISOBEDIENT BECAUSE PROVOKED (vs.1-13) Journeying again, the congregation came to the wilderness of ZIN and stopped at Kadesh, where Miriam died and was buried. The forty years of wandering...
Numbers 20:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Death of Miriam; The Water of Meribah; Moses and Aaron Reproved. B. C. 1453. 1 Then...
Numbers 20:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Meribah, called Meribah Kadesh , to distinguish it from another Meribah , Exodus 17:7 . Sanctified in them , or, among them , to wit, the children of Israel last mentioned, by the demonstrat...
Numbers 20:13 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Place is Called the Waters of Meribah (mrybh) Because ‘the Children of Israel' Strove (ryb) There with Yahweh and He Was Sanctified (yqdsh) In Them ( Numbers 20:13 ). Numbers 20:13 ‘These...
Numbers 20:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES We now enter upon the narrative of the third and last stage of the journey of Israel from Sinai to the Promised Land: this narrative is given in this and the following...
Numbers 20:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 20:1 . The desert of Zin. Critics are not agreed whether this was the same wilderness, and the same Kadesh to which the people arrived on the eighth journey after leaving Egypt. The argume...
Numbers 20:13 - The Biblical Illustrator

Neither is there any water to drink. The privations of man and the resources of God I. There are privations in the pilgrimage of human life. One man thinks that without health his life would be...
Numbers 20:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE LAST MARCH : FROM KADESH TO HOR ( Numbers 20:1-4 ). Numbers 20:1 Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation. The latter words are emphatic...
Numbers 20:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Water Out of the Rock.
Numbers 20:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 32:51 ; Deuteronomy 33:8 ; Exodus 17:7 ; Ezekiel 20:41 ; Ezekiel 36:23 ; Ezekiel 38:16 ; Isaiah 5:16 ; Psalms 106:32-48 ; Psalms 95:8
Numbers 20:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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 an...

Numbers 20:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Numbers 20:13 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Numbers 20:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 20:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Numbers 20:13 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 20:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Numbers 20:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Numbers 20:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Numbers 20:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 20:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Numbers 20:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Numbers 20:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Numbers 20:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Numbers 20:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Numbers 20:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Numbers 20:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Numbers 20:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 20:13 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 20:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Numbers 20:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Numbers 20:13 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 20:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Numbers 20:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 20:13 - The Biblical Illustrator

Numbers 20:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Numbers 20:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Numbers 20:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 20:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes