Exodus 17:6

17:6 I will be standing ¹  before you there on ²  the rock in Horeb, and you will strike ³  the rock, and water will come out of it so that the people may drink.” ⁴  And Moses did so in plain view ⁵  of the elders of Israel.

Deuteronomy 1:6

Events at Horeb

1:6 The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb and said, “You have stayed ⁶  in the area of this mountain long enough.

Deuteronomy 4:10

4:10 You ⁷  stood before the Lord your God at Horeb and he ⁸  said to me, “Assemble the people before me so that I can tell them my commands. ⁹  Then they will learn to revere me all the days they live in the land, and they will instruct their children.”

Psalms 106:19

106:19 They made an image of a calf at Horeb,

and worshiped a metal idol.

Malachi 4:4

Restoration through the Lord

4:4 “Remember the law of my servant Moses, to whom at Horeb ¹⁰  I gave rules and regulations for all Israel to obey. ¹¹ 

[17:6]  ¹ tn The construction uses הִנְנִי עֹמֵד (hinni ’omed) to express the futur instans or imminent future of the verb: “I am going to be standing.”

[17:6]  ² tn Or “by” (NIV, NLT).

[17:6]  ³ tn The form is a Hiphil perfect with the vav (ו) consecutive; it follows the future nuance of the participle and so is equivalent to an imperfect tense nuance of instruction.

[17:6]  ⁴ tn These two verbs are also perfect tenses with vav (ו) consecutive: “and [water] will go out…and [the people] will drink.” But the second verb is clearly the intent or the result of the water gushing from the rock, and so it may be subordinated.

[17:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[1:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “lived”; “dwelled.”

[4:10]  ⁷ tn The text begins with “(the) day (in) which.” In the Hebrew text v. 10 is subordinate to v. 11, but for stylistic reasons the translation treats v. 10 as an independent clause, necessitating the omission of the subordinating temporal phrase at the beginning of the verse.

[4:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 4:3.

[4:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “my words.” See v. 13; in Hebrew the “ten commandments” are the “ten words.”

[4:4]  ¹⁰ sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai (cf. Exod 3:1).

[4:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “which I commanded him in Horeb concerning all Israel, statutes and ordinances.”