Mazmur 78:20

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Memang, Ia memukul gunung batu, sehingga terpancar air dan membanjir sungai-sungai; tetapi sanggupkah Ia memberikan roti juga, atau menyediakan daging bagi umat-Nya?"

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Memang, Ia memukul gunung batu, sehingga terpancar air dan membanjir sungai-sungai; tetapi sanggupkah Ia memberikan roti juga, atau menyediakan daging bagi umat-Nya?"

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Sesungguhnya telah dipalu-Nya akan gunung batu, sehingga keluarlah air dari padanya dan anak sungaipun mengalirlah dengan limpahnya, maka dapatkah diberi-Nya roti juga? dapatkah disediakan-Nya daging bagi segala umat-Nya?

Contextual Overview

⁹ [Like as] the children of Ephraim, which beyng harnessed & carying bowes: turned their backes in the day of battayle. ¹⁰ They kept not the couenaunt of God: and they woulde not walke in his law. ¹¹ But they forgat his workes: and his wonders which he had shewed them. ¹² Marueylous thinges dyd he in the sight of their fathers: in the land of Egypt, in the fielde of Zoan. ¹³ He deuided the sea and let them go thorowe: he made the waters to stande as on an heape. ¹⁴ In the day time also he led them with a cloude: and all the night through with a light of fire. ¹⁵ He cloued the harde rockes in the wildernes: & gaue them drinke therof, as it had ben out of the great deepe waters. ¹⁶ He brought running streames out of a stonie rocke: and caused waters to gushe downe, like as out of riuers. ¹⁷ Yet for all this they sinned still against hym: so that they prouoked the most hyghest in the wildernesse. ¹⁸ And they temped god in their heartes: in requiring meate for their lust.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he smote: Exodus 17:6, Exodus 17:7, Numbers 20:11

can he give: Psalms 78:41, Genesis 18:12-14, Numbers 11:21-23

Reciprocal: Exodus 15:24 - What Leviticus 25:20 - General 2 Kings 3:20 - filled Psalms 105:41 - opened Isaiah 48:21 - he caused Matthew 14:17 - General Mark 8:4 - From Luke 9:12 - for John 11:37 - Could 1 Corinthians 10:4 - did

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed,.... This they allow was done by him, for these are their words continued; suggesting, that though the waters did gush out upon smiting the rock, yet they might have been in the caverns of it before, and had remained there a long time, and might have come out of themselves; and therefore this was no such great matter, and might easily be accounted for:

but can he give bread also? solid, substantial bread, and not like this light bread, the manna, as they called it, Numbers 21:5, can he give us bread of corn, in a wilderness which is not a place of seed, where no corn grows? can he do this? this would show his power indeed:

can he provide flesh for his people? for so great a multitude, and in a place where no cattle are? let him do this, and we will believe his power; or else the words intimate that the smiting of the rock, and the waters flowing in such large streams, were an instance of his power, and therefore he that could do the one could do the other; he that could bring such large quantities of water out of a rock could give them solid bread and suitable flesh, and fulness of both; and should he not do so, they must conclude that he bore no good will to them, and had no love and kindness for them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Behold, he smote the rock ... - See the notes at Psalms 78:15. The smiting of the rock the first time occurred “before” the complaining about the food. The fact that the rock had been smitten could not be doubted. They had thus had abundant evidence that God was able to do that, and to furnish “water” for them in the desert. It was unreasonable, therefore, to doubt whether he could provide “food” for them - for this in itself was no more difficult than to furnish water. Yet they are represented as affirming that this was far more difficult, and that, although it was admitted that God had provided “water,” yet that to provide “food” was wholly beyond his power. Their special sin, therefore, was, that they doubted the power of God in one case, when, in another, equally difficult, they had had abundant proof of it. The spirit of complaining had not been put down by one surprising and undoubted miracle performed in their behalf - a miracle which proved that God had all the power necessary to meet their needs.

Can he give bread also? - Does the ability to cause water to flow from a rock prove that there is also ability to produce bread when necessary? They doubted it, and thus complained against God.

Can he provide flesh for his people? - They supposed that this required greater power than the providing of water, or even of bread, and that if it were admitted that God could furnish the two former, it would by no means follow that he could provide the latter. It was this, as the next verse shows, which was the immediate occasion of the special anger of the Lord.