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Selected Verse: Numbers 20:2 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Nu 20:2 |
Strong Concordance |
And there was no water [04325] for the congregation [05712]: and they gathered [06950] themselves together against Moses [04872] and against Aaron [0175]. |
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King James |
And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| there was no water for the congregation--There was at Kadesh a fountain, En-Mishpat (Gen 14:7), and at the first encampment of the Israelites there was no want of water. It was then either partially dried up by the heat of the season, or had been exhausted by the demands of so vast a multitude. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| The language of the murmurers is noteworthy. It has the air of a traditional remonstrance handed down from the last generation. Compare marginal references. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| Sin of Moses and Aaron at the Water of Strife at Kadesh. - In the arid desert the congregation was in want of water, and the people quarrelled with Moses in consequence. In connection with the first stay in Kadesh there is nothing said about any deficiency of water. But as the name Kadesh embraces a large district of the desert of Zin, and is not confined to one particular spot, there might easily be a want of water in this place or the other. In their faithless discontent, the people wished that they had died when their brethren died before Jehovah. The allusion is not to Korah's company, as Knobel supposes, and the word גּוע, "to expire," would be altogether inapplicable to their destruction; but the reference is to those who had died one by one during the thirty-seven years. "Why," they murmured once more against Moses and Aaron, "have ye brought the congregation of God into this desert, to perish there with their cattle? Why have ye brought it out of Egypt into this evil land, where there is no seed, no fig-trees and pomegranates, no vines, and no water to drink?" |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| No water - Which having followed them through all their former journeys, began to fail them here, because they were now come near countries, where waters might be had by ordinary means, and therefore God would not use extraordinary, lest he should seem to prostitute the honour of miracles. This story, though like that, Exo 17:1-7, is different from it, as appears by divers circumstances. It is a great mercy, to have plenty of water; a mercy which if we found the want of, we should own the worth of. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| And there was no water for the congregation - The same occurrence took place to the children of Israel at Kadesh, as did formerly to their fathers at Rephidim, see Exo 17:1; and as the fathers murmured, so also did the children. |
7 And they returned [07725], and came [0935] to [0413] Enmishpat [05880], which is Kadesh [06946], and smote [05221] all the country [07704] of the Amalekites [06003], and also the Amorites [0567], that dwelt [03427] in Hazezontamar [02688].
1 And all the congregation [05712] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478] journeyed [05265] from the wilderness [04057] of Sin [05512], after their journeys [04550], according to the commandment [06310] of the LORD [03068], and pitched [02583] in Rephidim [07508]: and there was no water [04325] for the people [05971] to drink [08354].
2 Wherefore the people [05971] did chide [07378] with Moses [04872], and said [0559], Give [05414] us water [04325] that we may drink [08354]. And Moses [04872] said [0559] unto them, Why chide [07378] ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt [05254] the LORD [03068]?
3 And the people [05971] thirsted [06770] there for water [04325]; and the people [05971] murmured [03885] against Moses [04872], and said [0559], Wherefore is this that thou hast brought [05927] us up out of Egypt [04714], to kill [04191] us and our children [01121] and our cattle [04735] with thirst [06772]?
4 And Moses [04872] cried [06817] unto the LORD [03068], saying [0559], What shall I do [06213] unto this people [05971]? they be almost [04592] ready to stone [05619] me.
5 And the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto Moses [04872], Go on [05674] before [06440] the people [05971], and take [03947] with thee of the elders [02205] of Israel [03478]; and thy rod [04294], wherewith thou smotest [05221] the river [02975], take [03947] in thine hand [03027], and go [01980].
6 Behold, I will stand [05975] before [06440] thee there upon the rock [06697] in Horeb [02722]; and thou shalt smite [05221] the rock [06697], and there shall come [03318] water [04325] out of it, that the people [05971] may drink [08354]. And Moses [04872] did [06213] so in the sight [05869] of the elders [02205] of Israel [03478].
7 And he called [07121] the name [08034] of the place [04725] Massah [04532], and Meribah [04809], because of the chiding [07379] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478], and because they tempted [05254] the LORD [03068], saying [0559], Is [03426] the LORD [03068] among [07130] us, or not?
1 And all the congregation [05712] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478] journeyed [05265] from the wilderness [04057] of Sin [05512], after their journeys [04550], according to the commandment [06310] of the LORD [03068], and pitched [02583] in Rephidim [07508]: and there was no water [04325] for the people [05971] to drink [08354].