Numeri 20:13

13 Queste sono le acque di Meriba dove i figliuoli d’Israele contesero con l’Eterno che si fece riconoscere come il Santo in mezzo a loro.

Numeri 20:13 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 20:13

This is the water of Meribah
Or "strife": this is the name by which the water had in this place, and from this rock, was called; and which is the same name given to the place at Horeb, where a rock had been smitten, and water had flowed, as now, the first year they came out of Egypt; and to distinguish this from that, this is sometimes called Meribah-Kadesh, ( Deuteronomy 32:51 ) , this being at Kadesh, as that was at Rephidim:

because the children of Israel strove with the Lord:
for their chiding and striving with Moses was interpretatively striving with the Lord himself, whose ministers and servants they were:

and he was sanctified in them;
that is, the glory of his divine perfections was displayed in them; either in the waters fetched out of the rock, which was a proof of the almighty power of God, and of his truth and faithfulness to his promises; or in the children of Israel, in whose sight, and for whose sake this miracle was wrought: the Targum of Jonathan expressly says, in Moses and Aaron, in not sparing these his saints, but expressing severity towards them for their sin; so Jarchi and Aben Ezra interpret it.

Numeri 20:13 In-Context

11 E Mosè alzò la mano, percosse il sasso col suo bastone due volte, e ne uscì dell’acqua in abbondanza; e la raunanza e il suo bestiame bevvero.

12 Poi L’Eterno disse a Mosè e ad Aaronne: "Siccome non avete avuto fiducia in me per dar gloria al mio santo nome agli occhi dei figliuoli d’Israele, voi non introdurrete questa raunanza nel paese che io le do".

13 Queste sono le acque di Meriba dove i figliuoli d’Israele contesero con l’Eterno che si fece riconoscere come il Santo in mezzo a loro.

14 Poi Mosè mandò da Kades degli ambasciatori al re di Edom per dirgli: "Così dice Israele tuo fratello: Tu sai tutte le tribolazioni che ci sono avvenute:

15 come i nostri padri scesero in Egitto e noi in Egitto dimorammo per lungo tempo e gli Egiziani maltrattaron noi e i nostri padri.