Meribah is a word meaning "strife" or "contention," referring to the place where the Israelites complained against Moses and God when they lacked water in the wilderness during the Exodus. It was a region near Rephidim where water flowed out when Moses struck a rock. Moses also named this place Massah.
Exodus 17:1Therefore the people quarreled with Moses), and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”Exodus 17:2The people were thirsty for water there; so the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”Exodus 17:3Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”Exodus 17:4Yahweh said to Moses, “Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go.Exodus 17:5Behold, 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 in the sight of the elders of Israel.Exodus 17:6He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”Exodus 17:7Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
성경에는 그런데, 가데스 근처의 한 지역에도 므리바라고 나오는데, 이 지역에서도 모세에게 백성들이 원망하고 불평했기 때문이다.
Numbers 20:1There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.Numbers 20:2The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!Numbers 20:3Why have you brought Yahweh’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?Numbers 20:4Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.”Numbers 20:5Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces. Yahweh’s glory appeared to them.Numbers 20:6Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,Numbers 20:7“Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it pour out its water. You shall bring water to them out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink.”Numbers 20:8Moses took the rod from before Yahweh, as he commanded him.Numbers 20:9Moses) and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?”Numbers 20:10Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank.Numbers 20:11Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”Numbers 20:12These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.Numbers 20:13Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: “Your brother Israel says: You know all the travail that has happened to us;
Numbers 27:14Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying,
Deuteronomy 32:51For you shall see the land from a distance; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel.”
에스겔(성경)에서는 므리봇 가데스, 므리바가데스로 표현되었다.
Ezekiel 47:19“The west side shall be the great sea, from the south border as far as opposite the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.
Ezekiel 48:28“This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, says the Lord Yahweh.
1 Corinthians 10:1and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;1 Corinthians 10:2and all ate the same spiritual food;1 Corinthians 10:3and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.1 Corinthians 10:4However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.