³⁷ And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

³¹ For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even to this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.

¹³ This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.