Exodus 15:6-10

6 Your right hand, LORD, was majestic in power. Your right hand, LORD, shattered the enemy.
7 “In the greatness of your majesty you threw down those who opposed you. You unleashed your burning anger; it consumed them like stubble.
8 By the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up. The surging waters stood up like a wall; the deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea.
9 The enemy boasted, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake them. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword and my hand will destroy them.’
10 But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Exodus 15:6-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 15

This chapter contains the song of Moses, and of the children of Israel, on the banks of the Red sea; in which they celebrate their passage through it, the destruction of Pharaoh and his host in it, and the glory of the divine perfections displayed therein, interspersed with prophetic hints of things future, Ex 15:1-19 which same song was sung by the women, with Miriam at the head of them, attended with timbrels and dances, Ex 15:20,21, an account is given of the march of the children of Israel from the Red sea to the wilderness of Shur, and of the bitter waters found at Marah, which occasioned a murmuring, and of their being made sweet by casting a tree into them, Ex 15:22-25 when they were told by the Lord, that if they would yield obedience to his commandments, they should be free from the diseases the Egyptians had been afflicted with, Ex 15:26, and the chapter is concluded with their coming to Elim, where they found twelve wells of water, and seventy palm trees, and there encamped, Ex 15:27.

Cross References 14

  • 1. Psalms 16:11; Psalms 17:7; Psalms 21:8; Psalms 63:8; Psalms 74:11; Psalms 77:10; Psalms 89:13; Psalms 98:1; Psalms 118:15; Psalms 138:7
  • 2. S Exodus 3:20; S Job 40:14
  • 3. Numbers 24:8; 1 Samuel 2:10; Psalms 2:9
  • 4. Deuteronomy 33:26; Psalms 150:2
  • 5. Psalms 2:5; Psalms 78:49-50; Jeremiah 12:13; Jeremiah 25:38
  • 6. Exodus 24:17; Deuteronomy 4:24; Deuteronomy 9:3; Psalms 18:8; Psalms 59:13; Hebrews 12:29
  • 7. S Exodus 14:21; Psalms 18:15
  • 8. Joshua 3:13; Psalms 78:13; Isaiah 43:16
  • 9. S Exodus 14:22
  • 10. Psalms 46:2
  • 11. Exodus 14:5-9; Deuteronomy 28:45; Psalms 7:5; Lamentations 1:3
  • 12. Judges 5:30; Isaiah 9:3; Isaiah 53:12; Luke 11:22
  • 13. Job 4:9; Job 15:30; Isaiah 11:4; Isaiah 30:33; Isaiah 40:7
  • 14. ver 5; Exodus 14:27-28; Nehemiah 9:11; Psalms 29:3; Psalms 32:6; Psalms 77:19
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