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Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Yesaya 63:13
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Psalms 106:9, Habakkuk 3:15
Reciprocal: Exodus 3:19 - General Exodus 14:22 - the children Exodus 14:29 - walked Exodus 15:13 - led Joshua 24:6 - Egyptians Psalms 66:6 - He turned Psalms 78:13 - He divided Psalms 107:7 - he led Psalms 136:13 - General Isaiah 11:16 - like as it was Isaiah 50:2 - I dry Jeremiah 31:9 - in a
Gill's Notes on the Bible
That led them through the deep,.... The depths, the bottom of the sea; not through the shallow, but where the waters had been deepest, the descent greatest; and at the bottom of which might have been expected much filth and dirt to hinder them in their passage, yet through this he led them:
as an horse in the wilderness; or rather, "in a plain", as the word b sometimes signifies; and so Kimchi renders it a plain land, and Jarchi smooth land. The sense is, that the Israelites passed through the sea with as much ease, and as little difficulty, as a good horse will run over a plain, where there is nothing to stop his course:
that they should not stumble? there being no clay to stick in, no stone to stumble at, but all like an even plain.
b במדבר "in planitie", Calvin, Gataker, Vitringa; "in campis", Grotius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
That led them through the deep - They went through the deep on dry land - the waters having divided and left an unobstructed path.
As an horse in the wilderness - As an horse, or a courser, goes through a desert without stumbling. This is a most beautiful image. The reference is to vast level plains like those in Arabia, where there are no stones, no trees, no gullies, no obstacles, and where a fleet courser bounds over the plain without any danger of stumbling. So the Israelites were led on their way without falling. All obstacles were removed, and they were led along as if over a vast smooth plain. Our word ‘wilderness,’ by no means expresses the idea here. We apply it to uncultivated regions that are covered with trees, and where there would be numerous obstacles to such a race-horse. But the Hebrew word (מדבר midbâr) rather refers to “a desert, a waste” - a place of level sands or plains where there was nothing to obstruct the fleet courser that should prance over them. Such is probably the meaning of this passage, but Harmer (Obs. i. 161ff) may be consulted for another view, which may possibly be the correct one.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 13. - 14. That led them through the deep - As a beast goeth down into the valley — In both these verses there is an allusion to the Israelites going through the Red Sea, in the bottom of which they found no more inconvenience than a horse would in running in the desert, where there was neither stone nor mud; nor a beast in the valley, where all was plain and smooth.