Psalms 106:32
30 But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.
31 It was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.
At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them.
33 For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.
34 They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them.
- KJV
- They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:
- WEB
- They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;
- ASV
- They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, So that it went ill with Moses for their sakes;
- DARBY
- And they moved him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account;
- BLB
- And they caused wrath at the waters of Meribah, and it was evil to Moses on account of them.
- ÅB
- Og de vakte vrede ved Meribas vann, og det gikk Moses ille for deres skyld;
- OTB
- De vakte også hans vrede ved Meribas vann,
så det gikk ille med Moses for deres skyld; - B1930
- Og de vakte vrede ved Meribas vann, og det gikk Moses ille for deres skyld;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Numbers 20:2–13
Now there was no water for the congregation, so they gathered against Moses and Aaron.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 4:21
The LORD, however, was angry with me on account of you, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan to enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
Read in contextNumbers 20:23–24
And at Mount Hor, near the border of the land of Edom, the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
Read in contextPsalms 81:7
You called out in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you from the cloud of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
Read in contextDeuteronomy 1:37
The LORD was also angry with me on your account, and He said, “Not even you shall enter the land.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 3:26
But the LORD was angry with me on account of you, and He would not listen to me. “That is enough,” the LORD said to me. “Do not speak to Me again about this matter.
Read in contextNumbers 27:13–14
After you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was;
Read in contextPsalms 78:40
How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
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