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

Bible Comments

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 demonstration of his omnipotency, veracity, and clemency towards the Israelites, and of his impartial holiness and severity against sin even in his greatest friends and favourites, as Moses was.

Numbers 20:13

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