Geographic Border Locations:

Meribah

    Also called Meribath, Meriboth and Meriboth Kadesh.  The name means "quarrel, strife". It is a fountain of water in the Wilderness of Zin, near Kadesh-Barnea.

Ex 17:7
He 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?”

Nm 20:13,24
13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.
24 “Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.

Nm 27:14
because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)

Dt 32:51
because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn’t sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel.

Dt 33:8
Of Levi he said,
“Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one,
    whom you proved at Massah,
with whom you strove at the waters of Meribah;

Ps 81:7
You called in trouble, and I delivered you.
    I answered you in the secret place of thunder.
I tested you at the waters of Meribah.”

Ezk 47:19
The south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth Kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, to the great sea. This is the south side southward.

Ezk 48:28
By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, to the great sea.

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