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No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Exodus 17:6.
Exodus 17:6
Excerpted from: The Bethel StoneThis verse is telling us that not only Bethel the city, but also Bethel the pillar rock was given to the birthright family or tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh. Then 215 years later, after Jacob blessed his children, the anointed stone left Egypt with Moses and the Israelites. It is recorded that God, through a miracle, provided the Israelites with water from a rock. The first time was when the Israelites were encamped at Rephidim. At Rephidim God said to Moses, "Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock [That is very important. The rock, not any old rock laying out in the desert or in the wilderness, this was the rock] in Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, that the people may drink. (Exodus 17:6)"
Now, the phrase "the rock" means God was speaking of a rock that the Israelites were already familiar with. The rock was the Bethel Stone, the Shepherd Stone, the Stone of Israel. This rock was a type of Jesus Christ who would bring forth living waters welling up into eternal life. Christ called Himself the Good Shepherd. The Shepherd/Rock was smitten and so was Christ. He was smitten for the sins of the world.
Exodus 17:6
Excerpted from: Are We Ready to Overflow with God's Spirit?Jesus may have been thinking there in John 7 about Exodus 17:6, especially the phrase that says, "and water will come out of it." Do you know what the Hebrew literally says there? "There shall come water from within him." And what is the phrase there in John 7? "Out of His heart will flow rivers of living water." Other translations have it as, "From His innermost being."
We know from I Corinthians 10:4 that Paul tells us about the wanderings of the Israelites, and he reminds us that the Rock went with them through the wilderness. He is talking about this rock in Exodus 17:6 out from whom the water came. And then he explained that this Rock was Jesus Christ.
That is interesting. That Rock was Christ, and Christ in the presence of the cloud went on top of that rock and therefore showed that He was that Rock to Israel. And that water came from within Him—the pre-Incarnate Christ—out to the people to give them water. It came from within Him.
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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