Exodus 17:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Is the Lord among us or not? To protect and provide for us according to his word; will he be as good as his word, or will he not? Words which implied that to them it was very doubtful. Against doubts of this kind we ought constantly to guard. For, whatever may be suggested to our minds by the enemy of our souls, we ought never to question whether God will be gracious to those that desire and endeavour to follow him in the ways of his appointment.

Exodus 17:7

7 And he called the name of the place Massah,a and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?