Numbers 20:13
Good News Translation
This happened at Meribah, where the people of Israel complained against the LORD and where he showed them that he is holy.

New Revised Standard Version
These are the waters of Meribah, where the people of Israel quarreled with the LORD, and by which he showed his holiness.

Contemporary English Version
The Israelites had complained against the LORD, and he had shown them his holy power by giving them water to drink. So they named the place Meribah, which means "Complaining."

New American Bible
These are the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the LORD, and through which he displayed his holiness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
This is the Water of contradiction, where the children of Israel strove with words against the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

This is the Water of contradiction, where the children of Israel strove with words against the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.

the water

Deuteronomy 33:8 To Levi also he said: Thy perfection, and thy doctrine be to thy holy man, whom thou hast proved in the temptation, and judged at the waters of contradiction:

Psalm 95:8 To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts:

Psalm 106:32 They provoked him also at the waters of contradiction: and Moses was afflicted for their sakes:

Meribah, strife

Exodus 17:7 And he called the name of that place Temptation, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and for that they tempted the Lord, saying: Is the Lord amongst us or not?

Deuteronomy 32:51 Because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel, at the waters of contradiction, in Cades of the desert of Sin: and you did not sanctify me among the children of Israel.

he was

Isaiah 5:16 And the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be sanctified in justice.

Ezekiel 20:41 I will accept of you for an odour of sweetness, when I shall have brought you out from the people, and shall have gathered you out of the lands into which you are scattered, and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.

Ezekiel 36:23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the Gentiles, which you have profaned in the midst of them: that the Gentiles may know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord of hosts, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

Ezekiel 38:16 And thou shalt come upon my people of Israel like a cloud, to cover the earth. Thou shalt be in the latter days, and I will bring thee upon my land: that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

Context
Water from the Rock
12And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: Because you have not believed me, to sanctify me before the children of Israel, you shall not bring these people into the land, which I will give them. 13This is the Water of contradiction, where the children of Israel strove with words against the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.
Cross References
Exodus 17:7
And he called the name of that place Temptation, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and for that they tempted the Lord, saying: Is the Lord amongst us or not?

Deuteronomy 33:8
To Levi also he said: Thy perfection, and thy doctrine be to thy holy man, whom thou hast proved in the temptation, and judged at the waters of contradiction:

Psalm 81:7
Thou calledst upon me in affliction, and I delivered thee: I heard thee in the secret place of tempest: I proved thee at the waters of contradiction.

Psalm 95:8
To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts:

Numbers 20:12
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