Exodus 17:2

So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?”

Cross References (28)

  • Psalms 78:18 (7)

    They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.

  • Deuteronomy 6:16 (6)

    Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.

  • 1 Corinthians 10:9 (6)

    We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.

  • Psalms 78:41 (6)

    Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

  • Isaiah 7:12 (5)

    But Ahaz replied, “I will not ask; I will not test the LORD.”

  • Hebrews 3:9 (5)

    where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.

  • Numbers 21:5 (4)

    and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no brea

  • Psalms 95:9 (4)

    where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.

  • Numbers 20:2–5 (4)

    Now there was no water for the congregation, so they gathered against Moses and Aaron.

  • Acts 15:10 (4)

    Now then, why do you test God by placing on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been

  • Matthew 4:7 (4)

    Jesus replied, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

  • Exodus 17:7 (3)

    He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is th

  • Malachi 3:15 (3)

    So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”

  • Psalms 78:56 (3)

    But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.

  • Numbers 14:22 (3)

    not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me an

  • Luke 4:12 (3)

    But Jesus answered, “It also says, ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

  • Exodus 14:11–12 (3)

    They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What h

  • Psalms 106:14 (3)

    They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.

  • Acts 5:9 (3)

    “How could you agree to test the Spirit of the Lord?” Peter replied. “Look, the feet of the men who buried your husband

  • Exodus 15:24 (2)

    So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”

  • Exodus 16:2–3 (2)

    And there in the desert the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron.

  • Luke 15:12 (2)

    The younger son said to him, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them.

  • Exodus 5:21 (1)

    “May the LORD look upon you and judge you,” the foremen said, “for you have made us a stench before Pharaoh and his offi

  • 1 Samuel 8:6 (1)

    But when they said, “Give us a king to judge us,” their demand was displeasing in the sight of Samuel; so he prayed to t

  • Numbers 14:2 (1)

    All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in th

  • Genesis 30:1–2 (1)

    When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die

  • Numbers 11:4–6 (1)

    Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will

  • Matthew 16:1–3 (1)

    Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came and tested Jesus by asking Him to show them a sign from heaven.