He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.
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He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.
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He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
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And He rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up; and He led them through the depths, as through a wilderness.
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- Psalms 18:15 Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
- Psalms 78:13 He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.
- Isaiah 51:10 Isn’t it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
- Isaiah 63:11-14 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?” Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moses’ right hand? Who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name? Who led them through the depths, like a horse in the wilderness, so that they didn’t stumble? As the livestock that go down into the valley, Yahweh’s Spirit caused them to rest. So you led your people to make yourself a glorious name.
- Nahum 1:4 He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.
- Exodus 14:21-22 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. The children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.
- Exodus 14:27-29 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. But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.
- 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.
- Psalms 66:6 He turned the sea into dry land. They went through the river on foot. There, we rejoiced in him.
- Psalms 77:19-20 Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known. You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
- Psalms 136:13-16 to him who divided the Red Sea apart; for his loving kindness endures forever; and made Israel to pass through the middle of it; for his loving kindness endures forever; but overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea; for his loving kindness endures forever: to him who led his people through the wilderness; for his loving kindness endures forever:
- Psalms 78:52-53 But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
- Psalms 114:3-7 The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back. The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs. What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back? You mountains, that you skipped like rams; you little hills, like lambs? Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
- Isaiah 50:2 Why, when I came, was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish stink because there is no water, and die of thirst.
- Isaiah 11:14-16 They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west. Together they will plunder the children of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon will obey them. 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. There will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, like there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
- Matthew 8:26 He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 106:9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and…
Psa 106:9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
Ver. 9. He rebuked the Red Sea also] Ingentia beneficia, flagitia, supplicia, as appeareth in the subsequent verses.
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So he led them through the depths] Inter duas aquarum congeries, between two mountains of waters, which stood on each hand of them as a wall, and made a lane. Every main affliction is our Red Sea; which while it threateneth to swallow us up, preserveth us.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain As securely as if they had walked upon the…
As securely as if they had walked upon the dry land.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was…
He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up,.... By sending a strong east wind, which drove the waters back, and made the sea a dry land, Exo 14:21.
So he led them through the depths; that is, the deep waters of the sea, which were cast up as an heap, and stood as a wall on each side, through which they passed.
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As through the wilderness; or rather, "as on a plain"; for a passage through a wilderness where no roads are, and many obstructions be, is not easy; and so it is manifestly to be understood in Isa 63:13, where Jarchi and Kimchi interpret it a plain and smooth ground, a champaign country; and so the word is used for a plain, in opposition to mountains, in Jer 9:10, and then the sense is, that God led them through the sea, being dried up, as if they were led through a plain and open country, where was nothing to obstruct their march; an emblem of baptism, Co1 10:1, and of the passage of the people of God through this world; See Gill on Psa 78:13.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Led them - As securely as if they had…
Led them - As securely as if they had walked upon the dry land.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 9. He rebuked the Red Sea] In the…
Verse 9. He rebuked the Red Sea] In the descriptions of the psalmist every thing has life. The sea is an animated being, behaves itself proudly, is rebuked, and retires in confusion.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain He rebuked the Red Sea also - The word…
He rebuked the Red Sea also - The word rendered “rebuke” commonly means to chide - as when one is angry with another for having done wrong. Here it is evidently a poetic term, meaning that he spake “as if” he were angry; or “as if” the Red Sea did wrong in presenting an obstacle or obstruction to the passage of his people. Compare Exo 14:21-22,
So he led them through the depths - Through what had been the abyss; what had seemed to be depths, being covered with water.
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As through the wilderness - As through a desert or dry place; as he afterward led them through the wilderness. The waters parted asunder, and made a way for them.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 9. Rebuked the Red sea—See note on Psa_104:7.
9. Rebuked the Red sea—See note on Psa_104:7.
Through the depths—Through the cavernous and rocky bed of the Red sea, as if it were an open country. Exodus 14; Isa_51:10
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 9. He rebuked &c.] Cp. Psa_104:7; Isa_50:2; Nah_1:4.
9. He rebuked &c.] Cp. Psa_104:7; Isa_50:2; Nah_1:4.
so he led them &c.] Apparently a reminiscence of Isa_63:13 : cp. Isa_51:10.
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as through a wilderness] I.e. on dry ground, Exo_14:22. But R.V. marg. may be right in rendering pasture-land, suggesting the metaphor of a flock, Psa_77:20.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain He rebuked the Red Sea also (comp. Psa_104:7, "At…
He rebuked the Red Sea also (comp. Psa_104:7, "At thy rebuke they i.e. the waters fled;" see also Isa_50:2 Nah_1:4) The Hebrew poets constantly represent God"s dealings with inanimate nature in terms proper to his dealings with his rational creatures, thus personifying material things. And it was dried up. (see Exo_14:21, Exo_14:22) So he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness. (comp. Isa_63:13) Midbar, the word translated "wilderness," is properly a smooth stretch of down, very level, and suited for sheep walks.
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 9. He rebuked the Red sea also, and…
Ver. 9. He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up. A word did it. The sea heard his voice and obeyed. How many rebukes of God are lost upon us! Are we not more unmanageable than the ocean? God did, as it were, chide the sea, and say, "Wherefore dost thou stop the way of my people? Their path to Canaan lies through thy channel, how dare you hinder them?" The sea perceived its Master and his seed royal, and made way at once.
So he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness. As if it had been the dry floor of the desert the tribes passed over the bottom of the gulf; nor was their passage venturesome, for HE bade them go;nor dangerous, for He led them. We also have under divine protection passed through many trials and afflictions, and with the Lord as our guide we have experienced no fear and endured no perils. We have been led through the deeps as through the wilderness.
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Ver. 9. He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up. A poetical expression, signifying that the Red Sea retired at God's command, just as a slave would fly from his master's presence on being severely rebuked. Robert Bellarmine.
Ver. 9. He rebuked. We do not read that any voice was sent forth from heaven to rebuke the sea; but he hath called the Divine Power by which this was effected, a rebuke, unless indeed any one may choose to say, that the sea was secretly rebuked, so that the waters might hear, and yet men could not. The power by which God acts is very abstruse and mysterious, a power by which he causeth that even things devoid of sense instantly obey at his will. Augustine.
Ver. 9. Wilderness. Midbar; a broad expanse of poor dry land, suited for sheep walks (like our South Downs, or Salisbury Plain). Compare Isa 43:13. William Kay.
Ver. 9. Israel at the Red Sea. See "Spurgeon's Sermons", No. 72.
1. Israel's three difficulties.
(a) The Red Sea in front of them. This was not put there
by an enemy; but by God himself. The Red Sea
represents some great and trying providence placed in
the path of every newborn child of God, to try his
faith, and the sincerity of his trust in God.
b) The Egyptians behind them, the representatives of the sins which we thought were dead and gone. (c) The third difficulty was faint hearts within them.
2. Israel's three helps.
(a) Providence.
(b) Their knowledge that they were the covenant people of
God.
(c) The man, Moses. So the believer's hope and help is
in the God man Christ Jesus.
3. God's grand design in it. To give them a thorough baptism into his service, consecrating them for ever to himself (1Co 1-2).
Ver. 9. (second clause). Dangerous and difficult paths rendered safe and easy by God's leadership.
Psalms 106:10*
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Israel at the Red Sea
No doubt the children of Israel supposed that now all was over; the Egyptians had sent them away, entreating them to depart, and loading them with riches. They said within themselves, We shall now march to Canaan at once; there will be no more dangers, no more trials. Not quite so speedily, says God; the time is not arrived yet for you to rest. It is true I have delivered you from Egypt; but there is much you have to learn before you will be prepared to dwell in Canaan. Therefore I shall lead you about, and instruct you, and teach you.
I. The children of Israel just now had three difficulties--three exceeding great dangers. And so I believe that every heir of heaven, within a very short period after the time of his deliverance, will meet with the same.
1. The first they had was a great trial sent by God Himself. There was the Red Sea in the front of them. Now, it was not an enemy that put the sea there; it was God Himself. We may therefore think, that the Red Sea represents some great and trying providence, which the Lord will be sure to place in the path of every new-born child; in order to try his faith, and to test the sincerity of his trust in God.
2. Then the children of Israel had a second difficulty. They would not have cared about the Red Sea a single atom, if they had not been terrified by the Egyptians who were behind them. These are the representatives of those sins of ours which we thought were clean dead and gone. The pangs after we come out of Egypt are at times even more painful than those we feel in the house of bondage; and there is usually a time of trial a little while after the new birth, which is even more terrible and awful than the previous agony of the soul, though not usually so protracted.
3. But there was a third difficulty, which perhaps wrought them more misery than either of the other two; these poor children of Israel had such faint hearts. They no sooner saw the Egyptians than they began to cry out; and when they beheld the Red Sea before them, they murmured against their Deliverer. A faint heart is the worst foe a Christian can have; whilst he keeps his faith firm, whilst the anchor is fixed deep in the rock, he never need fear the storm; but when the hand of faith is palsied, or the eye of faith is dim, it will go hard with us.
II. But, thanks be to God I the children of Israel had three helps. Oh! child of God, dost thou discern this mystery? Whenever thou hast three trials, thou wilt always have three promises; and if thou hadst forty afflictions, thou wouldst have forty measures of grace.
1. The first help they had was Providence. Providence put the Red Sea there, and piled the rocks on either hand, while providence represented by the fiery cloudy pillar had led them to its shore, and conducted them into the defile, and now the same pillar of providence came to their assistance. They had not come thither undirected, and therefore they should not be left unprotected, for the same cloudy pillar which led them there came behind them to protect them. Cheer up, then, heir of grace! What is thy trial? Has providence brought it upon thee? If so, unerring wisdom will deliver thee from it.
2. Again: the children of Israel had another refuge, in the fact that they knew that they were the covenant people of God, and that, though they were in difficulties, God had brought them there, and therefore God was bound in honour to bring them out of that trouble into which He had brought them. Well, says the child of God, I know I am in a strait, but this one thing I also know, that I did not come out of Egypt by myself--I know that He brought me out; I know that I did not escape by my own power, or slay my first-born sins myself--I know that He did it; and though I fled from the tyrant--I know that He made my feet mighty for travel, for there was not one feeble in all our tribes; I know that though I am at the Red Sea, I did not run there uncalled, but He bade me go there, and therefore I give to the winds my fears; for if He hath led me here into this difficulty, He will lead me out, and lead me through.
3. The third refuge which the children of Israel had was in a man; and neither of the two others, without that, would have been of any avail. It was the man Moses. He did everything for them. Thy greatest refuge, O child of God! in all thy trials, is in a man: not in Moses, but in Jesus; not in the servant, but in the master. He is interceding for thee, unseen and unheard by thee, even as Moses did for the children of Israel. Look! on yonder rock of heaven He stands, cross in hand, even as Moses with his rod. Cry to Him, for with that uplifted cross He will cleave a path for thee, and guide thee through the sea; He will make those hoary floods, which had been friends for ever, stand asunder like foes. Call to Him, and He will make thee a way in the midst of the ocean, and a path through the pathless sea.
III. God had a design in it. And here, also, we wish you to regard with attention what Gods design is, in leading the Christian into exceeding great trials in the early part of his life. They were all baptized, says the apostle, unto Moses, in the cloud and in the sea. Gods design in bringing His people into trouble, and raising all their sins at their heels, is to give them a thorough baptism into His service, consecrating them for ever to Himself. I mean by baptism this morning, not the rite, but what baptism represents. Baptism signifies dedication to God--initiation into Gods service. It is not when we are first converted that we so fully dedicate ourselves to God, as afterwards, when some great Red Sea rolls before us. (C. H. Spurgeon.)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 106:9 Red Sea: See Exod 14:15-31.
106:9 Red Sea: See Exod 14:15-31.
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