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Psalm 78:15
He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
13He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.
14In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.
15He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
16He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
17Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
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Split rocks in a wilderness make God's provision startling: hard stone becomes a source of drink, and the water comes in abundance.
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1 Corinthians 10:4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.Both passages describe people drinking from a rock; Paul identifies the spiritual rock as Christ.
Exodus 17:6Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” Moses did so …Exodus recounts water coming from the rock at Horeb for the people to drink, the provision Psalm 78 remembers.
Numbers 20:11Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank.Both accounts stress the abundance of water from rock; Numbers specifies that the congregation and their livestock drank.
Psalm 105:41He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.Both psalms recall God opening rock to supply water, with language that emphasizes its great volume.
Psalm 114:8who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of waters.Both psalms describe God's power over rock, making hard stone a source of water.
Isaiah 48:21They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts. He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them. He also split the rock and the waters gushed …Both passages name the splitting of rock and the water God provided for his people in the desert.
Revelation 22:17The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.Both passages speak of drink being given; Psalm 78 recounts wilderness water, while Revelation offers the water of life.
Isaiah 41:18I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the middle of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.Both passages describe God supplying water in wilderness places, where the land itself offers little prospect of drink.
Isaiah 43:20The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honor me, because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my …Both passages name God's gift of water in the wilderness to give his people drink.
Revelation 22:1He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,Water comes from God in both passages: wilderness drink in the psalm and a river of life in Revelation.
Psalm 74:15You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.Both psalms recount God's power to open sources of water, though Psalm 74 also names his drying of rivers.
John 7:37–38Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!Both passages concern receiving drink: God provides it in the wilderness, and Jesus tells thirsty people to come to him.
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Israel's drink came from God's power over the rock. The desert was real, and so was his care for people who needed water to live.
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