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Complete Jewish Bible

Exodus 15:5

The deep waters covered them; they sank to the depths like a stone.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Epic;   Faith;   Joy;   Poetry;   Praise;   Psalms;   Readings, Select;   Song;   Thankfulness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies of Israel, the;   Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Praise;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Exodus;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Egypt;   Exodus;   Exodus, book of;   Moses;   Power;   Victory;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - God, Names of;   Moses;   Vengeance;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Judgments of God;   Singing;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Exodus;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Dance;   Miriam;   Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Depths;   Exodus, Book of;   Hymn;   Omnipotence;   Poetry;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Exodus;   Joy;   Poetry;   Praise;   Wars of the Lord, Book of the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Hymn;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hymns;   1910 New Catholic Dictionary - canticle;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ouches;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mir'iam;   Mo'ses;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - War;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Sinai;   Time Given to Religion;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Moses, Song of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Joshua, the Samaritan Book of;   Poetry;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for March 3;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.
King James Version
The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
Lexham English Bible
The deep waters covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone.
New Century Version
The deep waters covered them, and they sank to the bottom like a rock.
New English Translation
The depths have covered them, they went down to the bottom like a stone.
Amplified Bible
"The deep [water] covers them; [Clad in armor] they sank into the depths like a stone.
New American Standard Bible
"The waters cover them; They went down into the depths like a stone.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The depths haue couered them, they sanke to the bottome as a stone.
Legacy Standard Bible
The deeps cover them;They went down into the depths like a stone.
Contemporary English Version
They sank to the bottom just like stones.
Darby Translation
The depths covered them; they sank to the bottom as a stone.
Easy-to-Read Version
The deep water covered them, and they sank to the bottom like rocks.
English Standard Version
The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone.
George Lamsa Translation
The depths have covered them; they sank to the bottom like stones.
Good News Translation
The deep sea covered them; they sank to the bottom like a stone.
Christian Standard Bible®
The floods covered them;they sank to the depths like a stone.
Literal Translation
the depths cover them; they have dropped into the depths like a stone.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
ye depe hath couered them: they fell to the grounde as a stone.
American Standard Version
The deeps cover them: They went down into the depths like a stone.
Bible in Basic English
They were covered by the deep waters: like a stone they went down under the waves.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The deepe waters hath couered them, they sunke to the bottome as a stone.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The deeps cover them--they went down into the depths like a stone.
King James Version (1611)
The depths haue couered them: they sanke into the bottome as a stone.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He covered them with the sea: they sank to the depth like a stone.
English Revised Version
The deeps cover them: They went down into the depths like a stone.
Berean Standard Bible
The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
the depe watris hiliden hem; thei yeden doun in to the depthe as a stoon.
Young's Literal Translation
The depths do cover them; They went down into the depths as a stone.
Update Bible Version
The deeps cover them: They went down into the depths like a stone.
Webster's Bible Translation
The depths have covered them: they sunk to the bottom as a stone.
World English Bible
The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.
New King James Version
The depths have covered them; They sank to the bottom like a stone.
New Living Translation
The deep waters gushed over them; they sank to the bottom like a stone.
New Life Bible
The water covers them. They went down in the deep water like a stone.
New Revised Standard
The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Roaring deeps, covered them, - They went down in the raging depths like a stone.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The depths have covered them, they are sunk to the bottom like a stone.
Revised Standard Version
The floods cover them; they went down into the depths like a stone.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The deeps cover them; They went down into the depths like a stone.

Contextual Overview

1 Then Moshe and the people of Isra'el sang this song to Adonai : "I will sing to Adonai , for he is highly exalted: the horse and its rider he threw in the sea. 2 Yah is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. This is my God: I will glorify him; my father's God: I will exalt him. 3 Adonai is a warrior; Adonai is his name. 4 Pharaoh's chariots and his army he hurled into the sea. His elite commanders were drowned in the Sea of Suf. 5 The deep waters covered them; they sank to the depths like a stone. 6 Your right hand, Adonai , is sublimely powerful; your right hand, Adonai , shatters the foe. 7 By your great majesty you bring down your enemies; you send out your wrath to consume them like stubble. 8 With a blast from your nostrils the waters piled up — the waters stood up like a wall, the depths of the sea became firm ground. 9 The enemy said, ‘I will pursue and overtake, divide the spoil and gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.' 10 You blew with your wind, the sea covered them, they sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

depths: Exodus 14:28, Ezekiel 27:34, Jonah 2:2, Micah 7:19, Matthew 18:6

they: Nehemiah 9:11, Jeremiah 51:63, Jeremiah 51:64, Revelation 18:21

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:13 - ye shall see Exodus 15:10 - they sank Job 36:30 - and Psalms 106:11 - General Psalms 136:15 - But overthrew

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
I will make of you a great nation, I will bless you, and I will make your name great; and you are to be a blessing.
Genesis 13:16
and I will make your descendants as numerous as the specks of dust on the earth — so that if a person can count the specks of dust on the earth, then your descendants can be counted.
Genesis 15:7
(vi) Then he said to him, "I am Adonai , who brought you out from Ur-Kasdim to give you this land as your possession."
Genesis 15:8
He replied, " Adonai , God, how am I to know that I will possess it?"
Genesis 16:10
The angel of Adonai said to her, "I will greatly increase your descendants; there will be so many that it will be impossible to count them."
Genesis 22:17
I will most certainly bless you; and I will most certainly increase your descendants to as many as there are stars in the sky or grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the cities of their enemies,
Genesis 26:4
I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, I will give all these lands to your descendants, and by your descendants all the nations of the earth will bless themselves.
Genesis 28:14
Your descendants will be as numerous as the grains of dust on the earth. You will expand to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. By you and your descendants all the families of the earth will be blessed.
Exodus 32:13
Remember Avraham, Yitz'chak and Isra'el, your servants, to whom you swore by your very self. You promised them, ‘I will make your descendants as many as the stars in the sky; and I will give all this land I have spoken about to your descendants; and they will possess it forever.'"
Deuteronomy 1:10
Adonai your God has multiplied your numbers, so that there are as many of you today as there are stars in the sky.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The depths have covered them,.... The depths of the sea covered Pharaoh and his host, so as to be seen no more; and in like manner will mystical Babylon, or antichrist, be destroyed, and be no more found and seen; as likewise the sins of God's people, being cast into the depths of the sea, and covered with the blood of Christ, will be seen no more; when they are sought for, they shall not be found:

they sunk into the bottom as a stone; into the bottom of the sea, as a stone thrown into anybody of water sinks and rises not up again; this circumstance is observed by Nehemiah 9:11

their persecutors thou threwest into the deep, as a stone into the mighty waters; and thus a stone like a millstone being taken by an angel and cast into the sea, is made an emblem of the irrecoverable ruin and destruction of Babylon, or antichrist, Revelation 18:21.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

With the deliverance of Israel is associated the development of the national poetry, which finds its first and perfect expression in this magnificent hymn. It was sung by Moses and the people, an expression which evidently points to him as the author. That it was written at the time is an assertion expressly made in the text, and it is supported by the strongest internal evidence. In every age this song gave the tone to the poetry of Israel; especially at great critical epochs of deliverance: and in the book of Revelation Exodus 15:3 it is associated with the final triumph of the Church.

The division of the song into three parts is distinctly marked: Exodus 15:1-5; Exodus 15:6-10; Exodus 15:11-18 : each begins with an ascription of praise to God; each increases in length and varied imagery unto the triumphant close.

Exodus 15:1

He hath triumphed gloriously - Literally, He is gloriously glorious.

The horse and his rider - The word “rider” may include horseman, but applies properly to the charioteer.

Exodus 15:2

The Lord is my strength and song - My strength and song is Jah. See Psalms 68:4. The name was chosen here by Moses to draw attention to the promise ratified by the name “I am.”

I will prepare Him an habitation - I will glorify Him. Our Authorized Version is open to serious objection, as suggesting a thought (namely, of erecting a temple) which could hardly have been in the mind of Moses at that time, and unsuited to the occasion.

Exodus 15:3

A man of war - Compare Psalms 24:8. The name has on this occasion a special fitness: man had no part in the victory; the battle was the Lord’s.

The Lord is his name - “Jah is His name.” See Exodus 15:2.

Exodus 15:4

Hath He cast - “Hurled,” as from a sling. See Exodus 14:27.

His chosen captains - See Exodus 14:7 note.

Exodus 15:5

As a stone - The warriors in chariots are always represented on the monuments with heavy coats of mail; the corslets of “chosen captains” consisted of plates of highly tempered bronze, with sleeves reaching nearly to the elbow, covering the whole body and the thighs nearly to the knee. The wearers must have sunk at once like a stone, or as we read in Exodus 5:10, like lumps of lead.

Exodus 15:7

Thy wrath - Literally, Thy burning, i. e. the fire of Thy wrath, a word chosen expressly with reference to the effect.

Exodus 15:8

The blast of God’s nostrils corresponds to the natural agency, the east wind Exodus 14:21, which drove the waters back: on the north the waters rose high, overhanging the sands, but kept back by the strongwind: on the south they laid in massive rollers, kept down by the same agency in the deep bed of the Red Sea.

Exodus 15:9

The enemy said - The abrupt, gasping utterances; the haste, cupidity and ferocity of the Egyptians; the confusion and disorder of their thoughts, belong to the highest order of poetry. They enable us to realize the feelings which induced Pharaoh and his host to pursue the Israelites over the treacherous sandbanks.

Exodus 15:10

Thou didst blow with thy wind - Notice the solemn majesty of these few words, in immediate contrast with the tumult and confusion of the preceding verse. In Exodus 14:28, we read only, “the waters returned,” here we are told that it was because the wind blew. A sudden change in the direction of the wind would bring back at once the masses of water heaped up on the north.

They sank as lead - See the note at Exodus 15:5.

Exodus 15:11

Among the gods - Compare Psalms 86:8; Deuteronomy 32:16-17. A Hebrew just leaving the land in which polytheism attained its highest development, with gigantic statues and temples of incomparable grandeur, might well on such an occasion dwell upon this consummation of the long series of triumphs by which the “greatness beyond compare” of Yahweh was once for all established.

Exodus 15:13

Thy holy habitation - Either Palestine, regarded as the land of promise, sanctified by manifestations of God to the Patriarchs, and destined to be both the home of God’s people, and the place where His glory and purposes were to be perfectly revealed: or Mount Moriah.

Exodus 15:14

The inhabitants of Palestina - i. e. the country of the Philistines. They were the first who would expect an invasion, and the first whose district would have been invaded but for the faintheartedness of the Israelites.

Exodus 15:15

The dukes of Edom - See Genesis 36:15. It denotes the chieftains, not the kings of Edom.

The mighty men of Moab - The physical strength and great stature of the Moabites are noted in other passages: see Jeremiah 48:29, Jeremiah 48:41.

Canaan - The name in this, as in many passages of Genesis, designates the whole of Palestine: and is used of course with reference to the promise to Abraham. It was known to the Egyptians, and occurs frequently on the monuments as Pa-kanana, which applies, if not to the whole of Palestine, yet to the northern district under Lebanon, which the Phoenicians occupied and called “Canaan.”

Exodus 15:17

In the mountain of thine inheritance - See Exodus 15:13.


 
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