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No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Exodus 17:5.
Exodus 17:1-7
Excerpted from: Christ Our RockWe have water, here, gushing from the rock in Horeb, and it sustains the whole congregation of Israel—2 million or more people, and all their livestock. So, this could not have been a dribble to assuage their thirst. This had to have been a river coming out of the rock. People drink and animals drink a lot of water. And they were thirsty people and animals too. And so, what was performed here was a tremendous miracle.
Here we have a rock, who knows how big it was, but obviously this is one of those words that we talked about earlier—either sela, or sur—a huge rock. And when Moses struck the rock, it says, which God told him to do, a big crack opened, and water came out.
I am sure that it made a huge pool so that the people could come and drink and lead their animals to drink as well. This is the picture that we need to have in mind. Now, when God gives drink for His people, He does not give a trickle.
Exodus 17:4-7
Excerpted from: Are You an Israelite?Chapter 17 of Exodus is the time when Moses had to bring water out of the rock. Not the time that he struck the rock when God told him to speak to it—but a different time. The people were upset that they did not have any water to drink.
They challenged Him, I think should be the word there, because they challenged the Lord saying, "Is the Lord among us or not? Is He going to do a miracle, or is He going to fail?" And God produced the miracle. (Very interesting.) Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown says:
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