Exodus 17:2
Exodus chapter 17 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Wherefore the people strove with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why strive ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt Jehovah?
KJV
King James Version · 1611Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the Lord?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Wherefore the people strove with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why strive ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt Jehovah?
Context
v.1And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to the commandment of Jehovah, and encamped in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
v.2This passage
v.3And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore hast thou brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Luke 15:12
and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion ofthy substance that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.
- Psalms 78:18
And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.
- Psalms 78:41
And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.
- Matthew 4:7
Jesus said unto him, Again it is written, Thou shalt not make trial of the Lord thy God.
- Acts 5:9
But Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to try the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them that have buried thy husband are at the door, and they shall carry thee out.
- Matthew 16:1
And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and trying him asked him to show them a sign from heaven.