Exodus 17:1

_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._ Journeyed from the wilderness of Sin. In the succinct annals of this book, those places only are selected for particular notice by the inspired historian which were scenes memorable for their happy or painful interest in the history of the Israelites. A more detailed itinerary is given in the later books of Moses; and we find that here two stations are omitted, (Numbers 33:1.) According to Jerome, the whole of the desert region to Sinai comprehending El Murkha and El Kaa, was called "the wilderness of Sin." There were three routes by which the Israelites could have traversed it. The first, that advocated by Strauss, Knobel, Graul, and Keil, star

1._And all the congregation. _Scarcely was the sedition of the people about the want of food set at rest when they again rebel on the subject of drink. They ought, at least, to have learnt from the manna, that as often as necessity pressed upon them, they should have humbly implored in prayer and supplication God’s help, in certain hope of relief. But such was their character, that they were hurried by despair into secret murmurings and impetuous cries. We have almost a precisely similar account in Numbers 20:0. (186) For the error of those who think it one and the same, is easily refuted by the circumstances of the time and place; and in Numbers 33:0, it is very clearly shown how great a distance there was between the one station and the other. Neither does the tradition of some of the Rabb

1-7 The children of Israel journeyed according to the commandment of the Lord, led by the pillar of cloud and fire, yet they came to a place where there was no water for them to drink. We may be in the way of duty, yet may meet with troubles, which Providence brings us into, for the trial of our faith, and that God may be glorified in our relief. They began to question whether God was with them or not. This is called their "tempting God," which signifies distrust of him after they had received such proofs of his power and goodness. Moses mildly answered them. It is folly to answer passion with passion; that makes bad worse. God graciously appeared to help them. How wonderful the patience and forbearance of God toward provoking sinners! That he might show his power as well as his pity, and make it a miracle of mercy, he gave them water out of a rock. God can open fountains for us where w...

CHAPTER XVII _The Israelites journey from the wilderness of_ Sin _to_ Rephidim, 1, _where they murmur for lack of water_, 2, 3. _Moses asks counsel of God_, 4, _who commands him to take his rod and smite the rock_, 5, _and promises that water should proceed from it for the people to_ _drink_, 6. _The place is called_ Massah _and_ Meribah, 7. _The_ Amalekites _attack Israel in_ Rephidim, 8. Joshua _is commanded to fight with them_, 9. Moses, Aaron_, and_ Hur go to the top of

ACCORDING TO THEIR JOURNEYS - The Israelites rested at two stations before they reached Rephidim, namely, Dophkah and Alush Numbers 33:12. Dophkah was in the Wady Sih, a day’s journey from the Wady Nasb. The wilderness of Sin Exodus 16:1 properly speaking ends here, the sandstone ceases, and is replaced by the porphyry and granite which belong to the central formation of the Sinaitic group. Alush may have been near the entrance to the Wady Sheikh. REPHIDIM - (Variously placed at Feiran at the base of Mount Serbal, or at the pass of El Watiyeh.)...

EXPOSITION THE SECOND MUMURING FOR WATER. When the Israelites had come to Rephidim which was probably in the Wady Feiran, near its junction with the Wady Esh-Sheikh, complaint arose, not, as at Marah (Exodus 15:23), that there was no drinkable water, but that there was no water at all. Water had been expected, and consequently no supply had been brought; but none was found. Violent murmurs arose, and the people were ready to stone their leader (Exodus 17:4), who had, they considered, brought them into the difficulty. As usual, Moses took his grief to God, and laid it before him, with the result that God gave miraculous relief. Moses was bidden to take his rod, and go with the elders to a particular rock known as

AND ALL THE CONGREGATION OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL JOURNEYED FROM THE WILDERNESS OF SIN,.... Where they had stayed some time, at least a week, as it should seem, from the gathering the manna there six days, and resting on the seventh: AFTER THEIR JOURNEYS: first from the wilderness of Sin to Dophkah, and from Dophkah to Alusb, and from Alush to Rephidim, as appears from Numbers 33:12 their two stations at Dophkah and Alush are here omitted, nothing very remarkable or of any moment happening at either place: ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT; or "mouth of the Lord" d, who, either with an articulate voice out of the cloud, ordered when they should march, and where they should encamp; or else this was signified by the motion or rest of the pillar of cloud or fire, which always went before them, in which the Lord was: and pitched i

CHAPTER 17 AT REPHIDIM _ 1. The water from the rock (Exodus 17:1)_ 2. The conflict with Amalek (Exodus 17:8) From Sin they went to Dophkah and Alush before they came to Rephidim (Numbers 33:12). Again there was no water and Moses feared they might stone him. Without following the historical record we point out some of the most interesting lessons of the two events at Rephidim. The Rock is a type of Christ. Jehovah stood upon the rock to be smitten, even as “God was in Christ” (2 Corinthians 5:19). The smiting by the rod, used in judgment upon the river of Egypt, is the type of the death of Christ. There

EXODUS 27. WATER FROM THE ROCK (Exodus 17 :1 P (Rephidim), Exodus 17:1 b - Exodus 17:2 a (strove, strive) E, Exodus 17:3 and Exodus 17:2 b (tempt) J, Exodus 17:4 E, Exodus 17:5 a (people) J, Exodus 17:5 bd (and go) E, Exodus 17:5 c, Exodus 17:6 a J,...

CHILDREN. sons. SIN. Hebrew Bush. COMMANDMENT. Hebrew "mouth". Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause). App-6. Mouth put for what is spoken by it. the LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. Rephidim. reclining places. Two stations omitted here. Compare 17. Numbers 33:12....