“This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.”
These are the waters of Meribah, where the people of Israel quarreled with the LORD, and by which the LORD showed his holiness — the verse repeats, emphasizing the eternal significance of the moment. The place becomes a perpetual witness to the tension between God's mercy (providing water) and God's justice (condemning the leaders). Israel's entire later history will be shadowed by this moment: Moses will see the land but never enter; the generation of Sinai will die in the wilderness.
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