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Exodus 15:5
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The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.
The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
The deep waters covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone.
The deep waters covered them, and they sank to the bottom like a rock.
The depths have covered them, they went down to the bottom like a stone.
"The deep [water] covers them; [Clad in armor] they sank into the depths like a stone.
"The waters cover them; They went down into the depths like a stone.
The depths haue couered them, they sanke to the bottome as a stone.
The deeps cover them;They went down into the depths like a stone.
They sank to the bottom just like stones.
The deep waters covered them; they sank to the depths like a stone.
The depths covered them; they sank to the bottom as a stone.
The deep water covered them, and they sank to the bottom like rocks.
The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone.
The depths have covered them; they sank to the bottom like stones.
The deep sea covered them; they sank to the bottom like a stone.
The floods covered them;they sank to the depths like a stone.
the depths cover them; they have dropped into the depths like a stone.
ye depe hath couered them: they fell to the grounde as a stone.
The deeps cover them: They went down into the depths like a stone.
They were covered by the deep waters: like a stone they went down under the waves.
The deepe waters hath couered them, they sunke to the bottome as a stone.
The deeps cover them--they went down into the depths like a stone.
The depths haue couered them: they sanke into the bottome as a stone.
He covered them with the sea: they sank to the depth like a stone.
The deeps cover them: They went down into the depths like a stone.
The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone.
the depe watris hiliden hem; thei yeden doun in to the depthe as a stoon.
The depths do cover them; They went down into the depths as a stone.
The deeps cover them: They went down into the depths like a stone.
The depths have covered them: they sunk to the bottom as a stone.
The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.
The depths have covered them; They sank to the bottom like a stone.
The deep waters gushed over them; they sank to the bottom like a stone.
The water covers them. They went down in the deep water like a stone.
The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone.
Roaring deeps, covered them, - They went down in the raging depths like a stone.
The depths have covered them, they are sunk to the bottom like a stone.
The floods cover them; they went down into the depths like a stone.
"The deeps cover them; They went down into the depths like a stone.
Contextual Overview
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
I'll make you a great nation and bless you. I'll make you famous; you'll be a blessing. I'll bless those who bless you; those who curse you I'll curse. All the families of the Earth will be blessed through you."
God continued, "I'm the same God who brought you from Ur of the Chaldees and gave you this land to own."
Abram said, "Master God , how am I to know this, that it will all be mine?"
When your ancestors entered Egypt, they numbered a mere seventy souls. And now look at you—you look more like the stars in the night skies in number. And your God did it.
David didn't keep a count of men under the age of twenty, because God had promised to give Israel a population as numerous as the stars in the sky. Joab son of Zeruiah started out counting the men, but he never finished. God's anger broke out on Israel because of the counting. As it turned out, the numbers were never entered into the court records of King David.
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.
