SPLIT ROCK AT HOREB

Is this the rock that Moses was instructed by God to speak to so that water would come pouring out? Evidence suggests that it is. Instead of speaking to the rock like God instructed, Moses struck it with his staff in anger and water came pouring out after it split …

“And the Lord said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go. Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel” (Exodus 17:5-6).

On the slope of Jabal al Lawz in Saudi Arabia stands a towering pillar of rock, split laser-fine down the middle, approximately 20 inches wide from top to bottom. Is this the split rock at Horeb? Jim and Penny Caldwell, Americans working in Saudi Arabia in recent years, took this picture and others during several pilgramages they took to the mountain.

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