"Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chid…" — Exodus 17:2

Exodus 17:2 · KJV

“Wherefore 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?”

— Exodus 17:2

Verse 1

And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and {there was} no water for the people to drink.

Verse 3

And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore {is} this {that} thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

Exodus 17 — Context

Wherefore 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?

And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.

Cross References

Psalms 78:18

And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

Psalms 78:41

Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

Deuteronomy 6:16

Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted {him} in Massah.

1 Corinthians 10:9

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

Isaiah 7:12

But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.

Hebrews 3:9

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

Psalms 95:9

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

Acts 15:10

Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?