Exodus 15:1-18

The Song of Moses

1 Then Moses and the people of Israel ¹sang this song to the LORD, saying, ²"I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider^[a] he has thrown into the sea.

2 ³The LORD is my strength and my ⁴song, and he has become ⁵my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, ⁶my father's God, and ⁷I will exalt him.

3 The LORD is ⁸a man of war; ⁹the LORD is his name.

4 ¹⁰"Pharaoh's chariots and his host he cast into the sea, and his chosen ¹¹officers were sunk in the Red Sea.

5 The ¹²floods covered them; they ¹³went down into the depths like a stone.

6 ¹⁴Your right hand, O LORD, glorious in power, your right hand, O LORD, ¹⁵shatters the enemy.

7 In the ¹⁶greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries; you send out your fury; it ¹⁷consumes them like stubble.

8 At the ¹⁸blast of your nostrils the waters piled up; the ¹⁹floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.

9 The enemy said, ²⁰'I will pursue, I will overtake, I ²¹will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.'

10 You ²²blew with your wind; the ²³sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.

11 ²⁴"Who is like you, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in ²⁵glorious deeds, ²⁶doing wonders?

12 You stretched out ²⁷your right hand; the earth swallowed them.

13 "You have ²⁸led in your steadfast love the people whom ²⁹you have redeemed; you have ³⁰guided them by your strength to your holy abode.

14 ³¹The peoples have heard; they tremble; pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia.

15 Now are the chiefs of Edom ³²dismayed; trembling seizes the leaders of ³³Moab; ³⁴all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.

16 Terror and ³⁵dread fall upon them; because of the greatness of your arm, they are still ³⁶as a stone, till your people, O LORD, pass by, till the people pass by whom ³⁷you have purchased.

17 You will bring them in and ³⁸plant them on your own mountain, the place, O LORD, which you have made for your abode, ³⁹the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.

18 ⁴⁰The LORD will reign forever and ever."

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Exodus 15:1-18 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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

What Is the Song of Moses in the Bible? Joel Ryan

Cross References 40

1. Psalms 106:12; [Judges 5:1; 2 Samuel 22:1]
2. ver. 21
3. Psalms 18:1, 2; Psalms 59:17; Psalms 118:14; Psalms 140:7; Isaiah 12:2
4. Deuteronomy 10:21; Psalms 109:1
5. Psalms 18:46; Habakkuk 3:18
6. Exodus 3:6, 15, 16
7. 2 Samuel 22:47; Psalms 34:3; Psalms 99:5, 9; Psalms 118:28; Psalms 145:1; Isaiah 25:1
8. Psalms 24:8; Revelation 19:11
9. Exodus 3:15; Exodus 6:3; Psalms 83:18; Isaiah 42:8; Malachi 3:6
10. Exodus 14:28
11. Exodus 14:7
12. ver. 10; Exodus 14:28
13. Nehemiah 9:11
14. ver. 12; Psalms 118:15, 16; Isaiah 51:9
15. Psalms 2:9; Revelation 2:27
16. Deuteronomy 33:26
17. [Isaiah 5:24; Isaiah 47:14; Malachi 4:1]
18. Exodus 14:21, 22; 2 Samuel 22:16; Job 4:9; Psalms 18:15; [2 Thessalonians 2:8]
19. Psalms 78:13; [Joshua 3:16; Habakkuk 3:10]
20. Exodus 14:9
21. Genesis 49:27; Judges 5:30; Isaiah 53:12; Luke 11:22
22. Exodus 14:21; [Isaiah 11:15; Isaiah 40:24]
23. ver. 5; Exodus 14:28
24. Deuteronomy 3:24; 1 Samuel 2:2; 2 Samuel 7:22; 1 Kings 8:23; 2 Chronicles 6:14; Jeremiah 10:6
25. [Isaiah 6:3; Revelation 4:8]
26. Psalms 77:14
27. ver. 6
28. Psalms 77:20
29. Psalms 77:15
30. Psalms 78:54
31. Numbers 14:14; Deuteronomy 2:25; Joshua 2:9, 10; Joshua 9:24
32. [Deuteronomy 2:4]
33. Numbers 22:3
34. Josh. 2:9, 11, 24; Joshua 5:1
35. Deuteronomy 2:25; Deuteronomy 11:25
36. 1 Samuel 25:37
37. Psalms 74:2; [1 Peter 2:9]
38. Psalms 44:2; Psalms 80:8; [Jeremiah 32:41]
39. Psalms 78:54; Psalms 132:13, 14
40. Psalms 10:16; Psalms 29:10; Psalms 45:6; Psalms 146:10; Revelation 11:15

Footnotes 1

[a]. Or its chariot; also verse 21

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