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Moses strikes the rock twice with his rod. God tells Moses and Aaron that because they did not trust him, they will not lead the congregation into the Promised Land. The king of Edom refuses to allow the Israelites to cross Edom. Aaron dies at Mount Hor. PEOPLE: Children of Israel - Miriam - Moses - Aaron - יהוה YHVH God - Eleazar
One possible reason for the punishment is that Moses had struck the rock twice, rather than just speaking to it as he had been told to do; another possibility is that he had rashly addressed the Israelites by the phrase you rebels. [17] Yet another reason may be that Moses attributes the miracle to his own power and fails to mention the Lord. [21]
Then the people ridiculed Moses, asking if this was water for sucklings, or babes weaned from milk. So Moses lost his temper and struck the rock "twice; and water came forth abundantly" (in the words of Numbers 20:11), overwhelming all those who had railed at Moses, and as Psalm 78:20 says, "And streams overflowed." [118]
During the Exodus, Moses stretches his hand with the staff to part the Red Sea. While in the "wilderness" after leaving Egypt, Moses follows God's command to strike a rock with the rod to create a spring for the Israelites to drink from (Exodus 17:5–7). Moses does so, and water springs forth from the rock in the presence of the Elders of Israel.
The Book of Numbers (Chapter 20) [6] gives a detailed statement to the effect that, soon after the incident at Meribah (Kadesh), when Moses and Aaron showed impatience by bringing water out of a rock to quench the thirst of the people after God commanded them to speak to the rock, Aaron, his son Eleazar, and Moses ascended Mount Hor, on the ...
Aaron, like Moses, was not permitted to enter Canaan with the Israelites [15] when Moses brought water out of a rock to quench the people's thirst. Although they had been commanded to speak to the rock, Moses struck it with the staff twice, which was construed as displaying a lack of deference to the L ORD. [15] [55]
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He disobeyed God by hitting the rock twice instead of SPEAKING to the rock. Numbers 20:1-13 It was wrong for Moses to do this because Moses misrepresented God. God asked him to speak to the rock in front of the people but instead Moses hit the rock after angrily yelling at the people. He made it look like God was mad at the people.