Scripture Blog

This weblog is my personal online scripture journal. I try to read the scriptures each morning as I exercise on my cross-trainer. It has a great impact on my life and my testimony of the Savior and his restored church. The journal is really for my own benefit but I have set it up as a web log in hopes to benefit anyone else that may be interested. "For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost..." 1 Nephi 10:19

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Numbers 20

 One of the more interesting events of Moses and the Israelites in the wilderness was when - 

"...the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

8 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.

9 And Moses took the rod from before the Lord, as he commanded him.

10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?

11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.

12 ¶ And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them."  (Numbers 20:7–12)

David Ridges comments - 

"Did you notice that Moses was told to “speak” to the rock, but he hit it instead? You may wish to mark footnote 12a in your Bible, which points this out. Also, did you see that, in effect, Moses took credit to himself and Aaron, rather than giving credit to the Lord? Jehovah will confront Moses and Aaron for this, in verse 12, next. Numbers 20: 12 

"And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not [didn't obey], to sanctify me [build up the Lord] in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them."