Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 17:6

6 Behold, I will stand before thee there , upon the rock in Horeb , and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall water come out of it. And Moses did so , in the sight of the Elders of Israel.

In my cloudy pillar, which shall stand over that place.

Horeb and Sinai are sometimes spoken of as the same place, and sometimes as two differing places, as here compared with Exod. 19. 2. The learned write, that this was one long mountain, whereof there were two eminent parts or tops, the one at a considerable distance from the other, and Horeb was the first part of it, and near Rephidim, and Sinai, the more remote, to which they came afterwards.

(i. e.) Smote the rock and the waters flowed out plentifully and continually, making a river, which God caused to follow them to their several Stations. See 1 Cor. 10. 4.

Marginal references: Numb. 20. [illegible: 1+ letters]. Psal. 78. 1[illegible: 1+ letters]. & 105. 41. Wisd. 11. [illegible: 1+ letters] ▪