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Psalms 78:15

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   God Continued...;   Miracles;   Rock;   Wicked (People);   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   The Topic Concordance - Foundation;   Living Waters;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Providence;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Abyss;   Time;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Depths;   Salvation;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Anger (Wrath) of God;   Asaph;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Rock ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cleave;   Rock;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He split rocks in the wildernessand gave them drink as abundant as the depths.
Hebrew Names Version
He split rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
King James Version
He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
English Standard Version
He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
New Century Version
He split the rocks in the desert and gave them more than enough water, as if from the deep ocean.
New English Translation
He broke open rocks in the wilderness, and gave them enough water to fill the depths of the sea.
Amplified Bible
He split rocks in the wilderness And gave them abundant [water to] drink like the ocean depths.
New American Standard Bible
He split the rocks in the wilderness And gave them plenty to drink like the ocean depths.
World English Bible
He split rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He claue the rockes in the wildernes, and gaue them drinke as of the great depths.
Legacy Standard Bible
He was splitting the rocks in the wildernessAnd so gave them abundant drink like the ocean depths.
Berean Standard Bible
He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.
Contemporary English Version
God made water flow from rocks he split open in the desert, and his people drank freely, as though from a lake.
Complete Jewish Bible
He broke apart the rocks in the desert and let them drink as if from boundless depths;
Darby Translation
He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as out of the depths, abundantly;
Easy-to-Read Version
He split the rocks in the desert and gave them an ocean of fresh water.
George Lamsa Translation
He cleaved the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of great depths.
Good News Translation
He split rocks open in the desert and gave them water from the depths.
Lexham English Bible
He caused rocks to split in the wilderness and provided drink abundantly as from the depths.
Literal Translation
He split the rocks in the wilderness and made them drink, as from great floods.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
In the daye tyme he led them with a cloude, and all the night thorow with a light of fyre.
American Standard Version
He clave rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
Bible in Basic English
The rocks of the waste land were broken by his power, and he gave them drink as out of the deep waters.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He cleaved rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the great deep.
King James Version (1611)
Hee claue the rockes in the wildernes: and gaue them drinke as out of the great depthes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He cloued the harde rockes in the wildernes: & gaue them drinke therof, as it had ben out of the great deepe waters.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
he clave a rock in the wilderness, and made them drink as in a great deep.
English Revised Version
He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He brak a stoon in deseert; and he yaf watir to hem as in a myche depthe.
Update Bible Version
He split rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
Webster's Bible Translation
He cleaved the rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as [out of] the great depths.
New King James Version
He split the rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink in abundance like the depths.
New Living Translation
He split open the rocks in the wilderness to give them water, as from a gushing spring.
New Life Bible
He broke the rocks in the desert, and gave them water as if it flowed from the sea.
New Revised Standard
He split rocks open in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He used to cleave rocks in the desert, And let them drink as out of mighty deeps;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(77-15) He struck the rock in the wilderness: and gave them to drink, as out of the great deep.
Revised Standard Version
He cleft rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
Young's Literal Translation
He cleaveth rocks in a wilderness, And giveth drink -- as the great deep.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He split the rocks in the wilderness And gave them abundant drink like the ocean depths.

Contextual Overview

9The Ephraimites, armed to the teeth, ran off when the battle began. They were cowards to God's Covenant, refused to walk by his Word. They forgot what he had done— marvels he'd done right before their eyes. He performed miracles in plain sight of their parents in Egypt, out on the fields of Zoan. He split the Sea and they walked right through it; he piled the waters to the right and the left. He led them by day with a cloud, led them all the night long with a fiery torch. He split rocks in the wilderness, gave them all they could drink from underground springs; He made creeks flow out from sheer rock, and water pour out like a river. 17All they did was sin even more, rebel in the desert against the High God. They tried to get their own way with God, clamored for favors, for special attention. They whined like spoiled children, "Why can't God give us a decent meal in this desert? Sure, he struck the rock and the water flowed, creeks cascaded from the rock. But how about some fresh-baked bread? How about a nice cut of meat?" 21When God heard that, he was furious— his anger flared against Jacob, he lost his temper with Israel. It was clear they didn't believe God, had no intention of trusting in his help. But God helped them anyway, commanded the clouds and gave orders that opened the gates of heaven. He rained down showers of manna to eat, he gave them the Bread of Heaven. They ate the bread of the mighty angels; he sent them all the food they could eat. He let East Wind break loose from the skies, gave a strong push to South Wind. This time it was birds that rained down— succulent birds, an abundance of birds. He aimed them right for the center of their camp; all round their tents there were birds. They ate and had their fill; he handed them everything they craved on a platter. But their greed knew no bounds; they stuffed their mouths with more and more. Finally, God was fed up, his anger erupted— he cut down their brightest and best, he laid low Israel's finest young men. 32And—can you believe it?—they kept right on sinning; all those wonders and they still wouldn't believe! So their lives dribbled off to nothing— nothing to show for their lives but a ghost town. When he cut them down, they came running for help; they turned and pled for mercy. They gave witness that God was their rock, that High God was their redeemer, But they didn't mean a word of it; they lied through their teeth the whole time. They could not have cared less about him, wanted nothing to do with his Covenant. 38And God? Compassionate! Forgave the sin! Didn't destroy! Over and over he reined in his anger, restrained his considerable wrath. He knew what they were made of; he knew there wasn't much to them, How often in the desert they had spurned him, tried his patience in those wilderness years. Time and again they pushed him to the limit, provoked Israel's Holy God. How quickly they forgot what he'd done, forgot their day of rescue from the enemy, When he did miracles in Egypt, wonders on the plain of Zoan. He turned the River and its streams to blood— not a drop of water fit to drink. He sent flies, which ate them alive, and frogs, which bedeviled them. He turned their harvest over to caterpillars, everything they had worked for to the locusts. He flattened their grapevines with hail; a killing frost ruined their orchards. He pounded their cattle with hail, let thunderbolts loose on their herds. His anger flared, a wild firestorm of havoc, An advance guard of disease-carrying angels to clear the ground, preparing the way before him. He didn't spare those people, he let the plague rage through their lives. He killed all the Egyptian firstborns, lusty infants, offspring of Ham's virility. Then he led his people out like sheep, took his flock safely through the wilderness. He took good care of them; they had nothing to fear. The Sea took care of their enemies for good. He brought them into his holy land, this mountain he claimed for his own. He scattered everyone who got in their way; he staked out an inheritance for them— the tribes of Israel all had their own places.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 105:41, Psalms 114:8, Exodus 17:6, Numbers 20:11, Isaiah 41:18, Isaiah 43:20, John 7:37, John 7:38, 1 Corinthians 10:4, Revelation 22:1, Revelation 22:17

Reciprocal: Numbers 20:8 - bring forth Deuteronomy 8:15 - who brought 1 Kings 17:6 - the ravens 2 Kings 3:20 - filled Isaiah 35:6 - for Isaiah 44:3 - floods Isaiah 48:21 - he caused Habakkuk 3:9 - Thou

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He clave the rocks in the wilderness,.... The one at Rephidim, Exodus 17:1, and the other at Kadesh, Numbers 20:1 both to be seen at this day; Numbers 20:1- :,

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Numbers 20:1- :, though of the latter no modern traveller makes mention but one, yet Jerom b from Eusebius affirms that it was shown in his day: they were typical of Christ, 1 Corinthians 10:4, who is frequently compared to one for height, strength, and duration, shade, shelter, and protection; and is called the Rock of Israel, the Rock of offence to both houses of Israel, the Rock of salvation, the Rock of refuge, the Rock of strength, the Rock that is higher than the saints, and on which the church is built, and who is the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. The cleaving of the rocks is ascribed to God, which was done by the hands of Moses; and so the Targum adds,

"by the rod of Moses their master;''

but Moses was only the instrument, it was the Lord that did it; Moses with his rod could never have done it, had not the power of God went along with it. This smiting and cleaving the rocks were an emblem of the sufferings of Christ, who was smitten of God with the rod of justice, according to the law of Moses, in a judicial way, for the sins of his people, and in order to obtain salvation for them:

and gave them drink as out of the great depths; such a large quantity of water flowed out of the rocks when smitten, as if it came out of the great sea, which furnished them with drink sufficient, and more than enough for them and their cattle; this was typical of the large abundance of grace, and the blessings of it, which flow freely and plentifully from Christ and his fulness, and through his sufferings and death.

b De loc. Heb. fol. 93. L.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He clave the rocks in the wilderness - There were two occasions on which the rock was smitten for water; one Exodus 17:6 at Mount Horeb, shortly after they came out of Egypt; and the other Numbers 20:11, when they had nearly ceased their wanderings in the wilderness. Hence, the plural term (rocks) is used here.

And gave them drink as out of the great depths - As if he had formed a lake or an ocean, furnishing an inexhaustible supply.


 
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