Water from the rock

Water from the rock: the story, stop by stop

This story follows 6 passages of the Bible, from Exodus 17:3 to Revelation 22:17. Every gold arc is a cross-reference in the OpenBible.info data, and every verse is quoted word for word from the Berean Standard Bible.

1 Exodus 17:3
But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”
Israel is in the desert with no water, and the people turn on Moses.
2 Exodus 17:6
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.
God’s answer is strange: a rock, a staff and a strike.
3 Numbers 20:11–12
¹¹Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, so that a great amount of water gushed out, and the congregation and their livestock were able to drink.
¹²But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”
Years later, thirsty again, God tells Moses to speak to the rock. He strikes it instead. The water still comes, but it costs Moses the promised land.
- Exodus 17:6 → Numbers 20:9–11 · 19 reader votes
4 1 Corinthians 10:4
and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.
Over a thousand years later, Paul explains why a rock mattered so much.
- Numbers 20:11 → 1 Corinthians 10:4 · 14 reader votes
- Exodus 17:6 → 1 Corinthians 10:4 · 28 reader votes
5 John 7:37
On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
At a feast in Jerusalem, Jesus stands up and calls out to anyone who is thirsty.
- Exodus 17:6 → John 7:37–38 · 10 reader votes
- 1 Corinthians 10:4 → John 7:37 · 19 reader votes
6 Revelation 22:17
The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.
The Bible’s last invitation is still about water, and it is free.
- John 7:37 → Revelation 22:17 · 27 reader votes

Moses had to strike a rock. Now anyone who is thirsty only has to come.

Made from a Christ Reels video. A cross-reference is a reader’s judgement that two passages belong together, not proof; what the links are.

Water from the rock: the story, stop by stop

1 Exodus 17:3

2 Exodus 17:6

3 Numbers 20:11–12

4 1 Corinthians 10:4

5 John 7:37

6 Revelation 22:17

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