Promise kept
The rock was Christ
Water from the rock at Horeb (1446 BC) to 1 Corinthians written (AD 55): ~1,500 years in the Modern reckoning, ~1,550 years in the Traditional.
Water flows from the rock at Horeb; Paul, writing to Corinth, says that rock was Christ.
and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.
Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.
How many years apart?
| From | To | Between | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modern | Water from the rock at Horeb, 1446 BC | 1 Corinthians written, AD 55 | ~1,500 years |
| Traditional | Water from the rock at Horeb, 1491 BC | 1 Corinthians written, AD 55 | ~1,550 years |
Where an event has no date in a reckoning, the arc starts when the book was written. About the two reckonings.
Is it in the cross-reference data?
Yes: OpenBible.info links 1 Corinthians 10:4 and Exodus 17:6, with 28 reader votes.