You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.
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You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.
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Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
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Thou stretchedst out Thy right hand — the earth swallowed them.
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Passages linked to Exodus 15:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 15:6 Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 15:12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the…
Exo 15:12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
Ver. 12. The earth swallowed them,] That is, the sea, which compasseth the earth about as a girdle: God having set the solid earth upon the liquid waters. See Jon 2:6 Psa 24:2.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain 1. The globe, consisting of earth and water, which…
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1. The globe, consisting of earth and water, which is here called earth; as it is called the deep, and the water s, Gen 1:2. Or,
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2. The earth is here put for the sea, the other part of the same globe; as the soul is put for the body, or the dead carcass, the other part of the man, Lev 19:28; 21:1; Num 6:6,9,11. Or,
3. The earth properly, either because many of them sunk into the mud at the bottom of the sea, and were buried in it; or because, after they were cast up upon the shore, they were buried by the Israelites in the earth.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thou stretchedst out thy right hand,.... That is, exerted…
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, Jon 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.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The earth swallowed them - Their dead bodies sunk…
The earth swallowed them - Their dead bodies sunk into the sands on which they were thrown, which sucked them in.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 12. The earth swallowed them.] It is very…
Verse 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; Ps 77:18.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Exo 15:12. The earth swallowed them up — Their…
Exo 15:12. The earth swallowed them up — Their dead bodies sunk into the sands, on which they were thrown, which sucked them in.
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Earth. When their carcasses were corrupted, such as were…
Earth. When their carcasses were corrupted, such as were not eaten by fishes, mixed with the earth at the bottom, or on the shore of the sea.
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 12. The poet, before proceeding to the main theme…
12. The poet, before proceeding to the main theme of the paragraph (v. 13 ff.), reverts for a moment to the thought of Jehovah’s destruction of the foe.
The earth swallowed them] In the Heb., the imperfect, attached ἀσυνδέτως, expresses vividly how the result followed at once the stretching out of Jehovah’s hand. Exactly so v. 14 ‘the peoples heard, they trembled’; Psa_77:16 ‘the waters saw thee, they were in pangs.’ The ‘earth’ must here be understood as inclusive of the sea. ‘Swallowed,’ i.e. engulphed: cf. Num_16:32, Psa_106:17 (of Dathan and Abiram).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (12) The earth swallowed them.—The sea, which actually “swallowed…
(12) The earth swallowed them.—The sea, which actually “swallowed them,” was a part of the earth. Literalism might argue that the statement contravened former ones (Exo_15:4-5; Exo_15:10); but the fact is otherwise. If we only allow our common sense fair play, and permit sacred writers the same latitude as profane ones, we shall find wonderfully few discrepancies, or even difficulties, in the Biblical narrative.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Thou stretchedst out thy right hand. Thou hadst only…
Thou stretchedst out thy right hand. Thou hadst only to stretch out an arm, and at once thy enemies perished. The earth swallowed them upi.e. , the sea, which is a part of the earth.
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 with your right hand
with your right hand
The phrase "right hand" represents the strong power of God. AT: "with your strong power" (See: Metonymy)
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You reached out with your right hand
Moses speaks about God causing something to happen as if God reached out with his hand. AT: "With your strong power you made it happen" (See: Metaphor)
the earth swallowed them
Moses personifies the earth as if it could swallow or devour with it's mouth. AT: "the earth devoured them" (See: Personification)
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