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Exodus 15:12
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You stretched out your right hand. The eretz swallowed them.
Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
You stretched out your right hand; the earth swallowed them.
You reached out with your right hand, and the earth swallowed our enemies.
You stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them.
"You stretched out Your right hand, The sea swallowed them.
"You reached out with Your right hand, The earth swallowed them.
Thou stretchedst out thy right hande, the earth swallowed them.
You stretched out Your right hand,The earth swallowed them.
When you signaled with your right hand, your enemies were swallowed deep into the earth.
You reached out with your right hand: the earth swallowed them.
Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
You raised your right hand to punish the enemy, and the ground opened up to swallow them.
You stretched out your right hand; the earth swallowed them.
Thou didst lift up thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
You stretched out your right hand, and the earth swallowed our enemies.
You stretched out your right hand,and the earth swallowed them.
You stretched Your right hand ; the earth swallowed them.
When thou stretchedest out yi right hande, the earth swalowed them vp.
Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, The earth swallowed them.
When your right hand was stretched out, the mouth of the earth was open for them.
Thou stretchedst out thy right hande, the earth swalowed them.
Thou stretchedst out Thy right hand--the earth swallowed them.
Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
Thou stretchedst forth thy right hand, the earth swallowed them up.
Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, The earth swallowed them.
You stretched out Your right hand, and the earth swallowed them up.
Thou heldist forth thin hond, and the erthe deuouride hem;
Thou hast stretched out Thy right hand -- Earth swalloweth them!
You stretched out your right hand, The earth swallowed them.
Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.
You raised your right hand, and the earth swallowed our enemies.
You put out Your right hand, and the earth swallowed them.
You stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them.
Thou didst stretch forth thy right hand, earth swallowed them up.
Thou stretchedst forth thy hand, and the earth swallowed them.
Thou didst stretch out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
You stretched out your right hand and the Earth swallowed them up. But the people you redeemed, you led in merciful love; You guided them under your protection to your holy pasture.
"You stretched out Your right hand, The earth swallowed them.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
stretchedst: Exodus 15:6
Reciprocal: Psalms 136:15 - for his mercy Zephaniah 1:4 - stretch Luke 1:51 - showed
Cross-References
And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
Then Abram said, "Look, You have given me no offspring; indeed one born in my house is my heir!"
Then He brought him outside and said, "Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them." And He said to him, "So shall your descendants be."
And he said, "Lord GOD, how shall I know that I will inherit it?"
So He said to him, "Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."
Then He said to Abram: "Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years.
And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
So David took the spear and the jug of water by Saul's head, and they got away; and no man saw or knew it or awoke. For they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them.
In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls upon men, While slumbering on their beds,
And in a window sat a certain young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep. He was overcome by sleep; and as Paul continued speaking, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thou stretchedst out thy right hand,.... That is, exerted his power, and gave a display and proof of it; of which the right hand is an emblem:
the earth swallowed them; meaning Pharaoh and his host; for though they were drowned in the sea, that being a part of the terraqueous globe, they may be said to be swallowed in the earth; as Jonah, when in the depth of the sea, the earth and its bars are said to be about him, Jonah 2:6 and besides, many of Pharaoh's army might be swallowed up in the mud at the bottom of the sea: nor is it improbable that those that were cast upon the banks and sand, whom the Israelites stripped, might be afterwards swallowed up therein.
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.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Exodus 15:12. The earth swallowed them. — It is very likely there was also an earthquake on this occasion, and that chasms were made in the bottom of the sea, by which many of them were swallowed up, though multitudes were overwhelmed by the waters, whose dead bodies were afterward thrown ashore. The psalmist strongly intimates that there was an earthquake on this occasion: The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven; the lightnings lightened the world; the EARTH TREMBLED and SHOOK; Psalms 77:18.
