Psalms 78:16

16 (77-16) He brought forth water out of the rock: and made streams run down as rivers.

Psalms 78:16 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 78:16

He brought streams also out of the rock
Which is expressed in the singular number, as also in ( Psalms 78:20 ) , because the children of Israel were not come to Kadesh, and the second rock was not smitten when they lusted after flesh, and murmured against God, and tempted him, as is after related:

and caused waters to run down like rivers;
from the descent of the rock, which followed them all the way in the wilderness; this was a most marvellous thing, that water should flow from a flinty rock upon striking it, from whence fire rather than water might have been expected; and that it should flow in such great abundance, and that from a rock in a wilderness.

Psalms 78:16 In-Context

14 (77-14) And he conducted them with a cloud by day: and all the night with a light of fire.
15 (77-15) He struck the rock in the wilderness: and gave them to drink, as out of the great deep.
16 (77-16) He brought forth water out of the rock: and made streams run down as rivers.
17 (77-17) And they added yet more sin against him: they provoked the most High to wrath in the place without water.
18 (77-18) And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their desires.
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