Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The rock in Horeb - (a rock situated, according to Arab tradition, in Wady Feiran. Horeb was a name given to the whole desert of Sinai and subsequently attached to the mountain. Palmer).
It is questioned whether the water thus supplied ceased with the immediate occasion; see I Corinthians 10:4, the general meaning of which appears to be that their wants were ever supplied from Him, of whom the rock was but a symbol, and who accompanied them in all their wanderings.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Exodus 17:6:
Psalms 78:15
Psalms 81:7
Isaiah 48:21
1 Corinthians 10:4
1 Corinthians 10:4
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