The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.
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The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.
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The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
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The deeps cover them — they went down into the depths like a stone.
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Passages linked to Exodus 15:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Nehemiah 9:11 You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
- Exodus 14:28 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.
- Exodus 15:10 You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
- Jeremiah 51:63-64 It will be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the middle of the Euphrates. Then you shall say, ‘Thus will Babylon sink, and will not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they will be weary.’ ” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
- Ezekiel 27:34 In the time that you were broken by the seas, in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company fell within you.
- Jonah 2:2 He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.
- Micah 7:19 He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
- Matthew 18:6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a huge millstone were hung around his neck, and that he were sunk in the depths of the sea.
- Revelation 18:21 A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, “Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 15:5 The depths have covered them: they sank…
Exo 15:5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
Ver. 5. As a stone.] So shall Rome. {Rev 15:5; Rev 18:21 Mic 7:19} The Jews, saith Montanus, took those things they abominated as filthy and unclean, and threw them into the sea. {a}
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{a} Ex lib. Misna. cap. de Phase.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain The depths have covered them,.... The depths of the…
The depths have covered them,.... The depths of the sea covered Pharaoh and his host, so as to be seen no more; and in like manner will mystical Babylon, or antichrist, be destroyed, and be no more found and seen; as likewise the sins of God's people, being cast into the depths of the sea, and covered with the blood of Christ, will be seen no more; when they are sought for, they shall not be found:
they sunk into the bottom as a stone; into the bottom of the sea, as a stone thrown into anybody of water sinks and rises not up again; this circumstance is observed by Neh 9:11.
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their persecutors thou threwest into the deep, as a stone into the mighty waters; and thus a stone like a millstone being taken by an angel and cast into the sea, is made an emblem of the irrecoverable ruin and destruction of Babylon, or antichrist, Rev 18:21.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 5. The deeps] chiefly a poet. word: Psa_77:16; Psa_106:9,…
5. The deeps] chiefly a poet. word: Psa_77:16; Psa_106:9, Isa_63:13 (all with reference to the passage of Red Sea); and elsewhere.
did cover them] The tense used represents the action vividly as it was taking place, something in the manner of the Greek imperfect. Song of Solomon vv6, 7. It cannot be reproduced idiomatically in English. ‘Cover’ is probably meant by the Revisers to be a historical present: but even this is inadequate; and the word is very liable to be misunderstood as an actual present (‘cover them now’).
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the depths] Mic_7:19, Psa_68:22; Psa_107:24, Neh_9:11 (an allusion to the present passage), al. Properly, perhaps, the gurgling-places (cf. on v. 10). Quite a different word from ‘deeps,’ vv. 5, 8.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (5) The depths have covered them.—Rather, covered them. The…
(5) The depths have covered them.—Rather, covered them. The first stanza, or strophe, here terminates—the first historical review is completed. In it attention is concentrated on the one great fact of the deliverance by the destruction of the Egyptians in the Red Sea. At the close it is probable that Miriam, with her chorus of women, took up the refrain of Exo_15:1, and slightly modifying it, sang, as recorded in Exo_15:21, “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 The depths have covered them. Rather "covered them." Into…
The depths have covered them. Rather "covered them." Into the bottom. Literally, "into the abyss." Like a stone. The warriors who fought in chariots commonly wore coats of mail, composed of bronze plates sewn on to a linen base, and overlapping one another. The coats covered the arms to the elbow, and descended nearly to the knee. They must have been exceedingly heavy: and the warrior who wore one must have sunk at once, without a struggle, like a stone or a lump of lead (verse 10).
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