Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Exodus 17:2, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Psalms 78:18
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
- Deuteronomy 6:16
Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
- Psalms 78:41
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
- 1 Corinthians 10:9
Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
- Hebrews 3:9
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
- Isaiah 7:12
But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
- Acts 15:10
Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
- Psalms 95:9
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
- Matthew 4:7
Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
- Numbers 20:2
And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
- Numbers 21:5
And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, nei…
- Luke 4:12
And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
More to meet God in Exodus
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.