Exo 17:1-8, 19:2 | TSK | STEP | The people murmur for water at Rephidim. God sends them for water to the rock in Horeb. The place is called Massah and Meribah. Amalek is overcome by Joshua, while Moses holds up his hands with the rod of God. Amalek is doomed to destruction; and Moses builds the altar JEHOVAH-nissi. Sin. Rephidim.

the rock.This rock, which is a vast block of red granite, 15 feet long, 10 broad, and 12 high, lies in the wilderness of Rephidim, to the west of Mount Horeb, a part of Sinai. There are abundant traces of this wonderful miracle remaining at this day. This rock has been visited, drawn, and described by Dr. Shaw and others; and holes and channels appear in the stone, which could only have been formed by the bursting out and running of water.

in Horeb.

3:1-5

and thou.

Nu 20:9-11; De 8:15; Ne 9:15; Ps 78:15,16,20; 105:41; 114:8

Isa 48:21; 1Co 10:4

that the people.

Ps 46:4; Isa 41:17,18; 43:19,20; Joh 4:10,14; 7:37,38; Re 22:17

Massah. i.e., Temptation.

Nu 20:13; De 9:22

Meribah. that is, Chiding or Strife.

2; Ps 81:7

chiding.

tempted.

Ps 95:8; Heb 3:8,9

Is the Lord.

34:9; De 31:17; Jos 22:31; Isa 12:6; Mic 3:11; Joh 1:14; Ac 7:37-39

Ge 36:12,16; Nu 24:20; De 25:17; 1Sa 15:2; 30:1; Ps 83:7

Exodus 19:2

Rephidim.

17:1,8

the desert.Mount Sinai, called by the Arabs Jibbel Mousa, the Mountain of Moses, and sometimes by way of eminence, El Tor, the Mount, is a range of mountains in the peninsula formed by the gulfs of the Red Sea. It consists of several peaks, the principal of which are Horeb and Sinai; the former, still called Oreb, being on the west, and the latter, called Tur Sina, on the east, at the foot of which is the convent of St. Catherine. Dr. Shaw conceives that the wilderness of Sinai, properly so called, is that part which is to the eastward of this mount; so that the removal of the Israelites from Rephidim, which was on the West, to the desert of Sinai, was only removing from one part of the mountain to another.

camped.

3:1,12; 18:5; Ac 7:30,38; Ga 4:24