You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
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You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
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Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
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Thou didst blow with Thy wind, the sea covered them; they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
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Passages linked to Exodus 15:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 14:21 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
- Exodus 15:5 The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.
- Deuteronomy 11:4 and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this day;
- Isaiah 11:15 Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, and will split it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals.
- Matthew 8:27 The men marveled, saying, “What kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”
- Genesis 8:1 God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
- Exodus 14:27-28 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea. The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.
- Psalms 74:13-14 You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters. You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.
- Psalms 135:7 He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings with the rain. He brings the wind out of his treasuries.
- Psalms 147:18 He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
- Jeremiah 10:13 When he utters his voice, the waters in the heavens roar, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
- Amos 4:13 For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 15:10 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the…
Exo 15:10 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
Ver. 10. Thou didst blow, &c.] Here it was that the arm of the Lord put on strength to cut Rahab, and wound the dragon. {Isa 51:9}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Heb. Magnificent or honourable waters, made so by being…
Heb. Magnificent or honourable waters, made so by being the instrument of thy glorious work.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thou didst blow with thy wind,.... A strong east…
Thou didst blow with thy wind,.... A strong east wind, Exo 14:22 which is the Lord Christ's, who has it in his treasury, holds it in his fists, sends it out as he pleases, and it fulfils his word and will:
the sea covered them; which stood up in an heap as a wall to let Israel pass through, and fell down with all its waves and billows with great force upon the Egyptians, and covered and drowned them:
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they sunk as lead in the mighty waters; which is a very heavy metal, and, being cast into the water, sinks to the bottom at once, as did the Egyptians in the Red sea, and as Babylon the great will, and never rise more, Rev 18:21.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Exo 15:10. Thou didst blow with thy wind, the…
Exo 15:10. Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them — What an idea does this give us of the power of God! He only blows, and he at once overwhelms a numberless multitude of forces! This is the true sublime. It is like, Let there be light, and there was light. Can any thing be greater? The sea covered them — How many ideas are included in these four words! Any other writer than one divinely inspired would have set his fancy to work, and have given us a long detail; would have exhausted the subject, or empoverished it, and tired the reader by a train of insipid and useless descriptions, and an empty pomp of words. But here God blows, the sea obeys, and the Egyptians are swallowed up! Was ever description so full, so lively, so strong, as this? There is no interval between God’s blowing and the dreadful miracle of vengeance on his enemies, and mercy to his people!
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Wind. Septuagint, "spirit," which St. Ambrose and St. Augustine…
Wind. Septuagint, "spirit," which St. Ambrose and St. Augustine understand as the Holy Ghost. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 10. God did but blow with His wind, and…
10. God did but blow with His wind, and all their hopes were in a moment shattered; they sank and perished in the returning waters.
sank] The word occurs nowhere else in this sense: to judge from its derivatives, the root will have meant to whir, whiz, clang, &c.: so perhaps the idea is whizzed down, or (cf. Southey’s poem, The Inchcape Rock, l. 37, of a bell sinking) sank with a gurgling sound. The usual Heb. word for ‘sink’ is the one in v. 4b.
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in the mighty waters] The adj. cognate with the ptcp. rendered glorious in vv. 6, 11. Neh_9:11 uses the more ordinary word ‘azzim (‘strong’).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (10) Thou didst blow with thy wind.—A new fact,…
(10) Thou didst blow with thy wind.—A new fact, additional to the narrative in Exodus 14, but in complete harmony with it. As a strong east (southeast) wind had driven the waters of the Bitter Lakes to the north-westward, so (it would seem) their return was aided and hastened by a wind from the opposite direction, which caused the sea to “cover” the Egyptians.
They sank as lead.—Compare Exo_15:5. To an eye-witness, it would seem, the sudden submersion and disappearance of each warrior, as the waters closed around him, was peculiarly impressive. Each seemed to be swallowed up at once, without a struggle. This would be a natural result of the heavy armour worn by the picked warriors.
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In the mighty waters.—With these words the second stanza, or strophe, closes. Miriam and her maidens, it is probable, again interposed with the magnificent refrain, “Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath glorified himself gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Thou didst blow with thy wind. Here we have…
Thou didst blow with thy wind. Here we have another fact not mentioned in the direct narrative, but entirely harmonising with it. The immediate cause of the return of the waters, as of their retirement, was a wind. This wind must have come from a new quarter, or its effects would not have been to bring the water back. We may reasonasbly suppose a wind to have arisen contrary to the former one, blowing from the northwest or the north, which would have driven the water of the Bitter LaMes southward, and thus produced the effect spoken of. The effect may, or may not, have been increased by the flow of the tide in the Red Sea They sank as lead. See the comment on verse 5.
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