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; striking the rock for them, when he might justly have stricken them with utter destruction. Man's badness interrupteth not the course of God's goodness; "his unbelief maketh not the faith of God without effect." Rom 3:3