Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Take the rod--which had been deposited in the tabernacle (Numbers 17:10), the wonder-working rod by which so many miracles had been performed, sometimes called "the rod of God" (Exodus 4:20), sometimes Moses' (Numbers 20:11) or Aaron's rod (Exodus 7:12).
there was no water for the congregation--There was at Kadesh a fountain, En-Mishpat (Genesis 14:7), and at the first encampment of the Israelites there was no want of water. It was then either partially dried up by the heat of the season, or had been exhausted by the demands of so vast a multitude.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Numbers 20:10
Psalms 106:32-33
1 Corinthians 10:4
Hebrews 3:8
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