aThen Moses and the children of Israel sang this 1song to the LORD, singing,“bI will sing to the LORD, for He has triumphed gloriously;cThe horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea.It was natural enough to create and sing a song of celebration to the Lord at this point, but the song, with all its detail, undoubtedly served as a memory device as well, a way to embed the account of the miracle in the minds of the people of Israel.Ps 106:12; Rev 15:3Is 12:5; 42:10-12Jer 51:21
2 “aThe LORD is my strength and my song,And He has become my salvation;bThis is my God, and I will praise Him;cMy father’s God, and I will dexalt Him.Ps 18:1, 2; Is 12:2; Hab 3:18fPs 48:14Ex 3:6, 15, 162 Sam 22:47; Ps 99:5; Is 25:13 “aThe LORD is a warrior;bThe LORD is His name.Ex 14:14; Rev 19:11Ex 3:15; 6:2, 3, 7, 8; Ps 24:8; 83:184 “aPharaoh’s chariots and his army He has thrown into the sea;His chosen captains are drowned in the 1Red Sea.Lit Sea of Reeds.Ex 14:6, 7, 17, 285 “The deep water covers them;aClad in armor they sank into the depths like a stone.Ex 15:10; Neh 9:116 “aYour right hand, O LORD, is glorious in power;bYour right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy.Ex 3:20; 6:1Ps 118:15, 167 “In the greatness of Your majesty You aoverthrow and annihilate those adversaries who rise in rebellion against You;bYou send out Your fury, and it cconsumes them like chaff.Ex 14:27Ps 78:49, 50Deut 4:24; Is 5:24; Heb 12:298 “aWith the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up,bThe flowing waters stood up like a mound;The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.Ex 14:22, 29; Job 4:9Ps 78:139 “aThe enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will bdivide the spoil;My desire shall be satisfied against them;I will draw my sword, my hand shall dispossess them and drive them out.’Ex 14:5, 8, 9Judg 5:30; Is 53:12; Luke 11:2210 “aYou blew with Your wind, the sea covered them;Clad in armor bthey sank like lead in the mighty waters.Ex 14:27, 28Ex 15:511 “aWho is like You among the gods, O LORD?Who is like You, bmajestic in holiness,cAwesome in splendor, dworking wonders?Ex 8:10; 9:14; Deut 3:24; 2 Sam 7:22; 1 Kin 8:23; Ps 71:19; 86:8; Mic 7:18Is 6:3; Rev 4:8Ps 22:23Ps 72:18; 136:412 “aYou stretched out Your right hand,The 1sea swallowed them.Lit earth.Ex 15:613 “You in Your lovingkindness and goodness have aled the people whom You have bredeemed;In Your strength You have guided them with care to cYour holy habitation.Neh 9:12; Ps 77:20Ex 15:16; Ps 77:15Ex 15:17; Ps 78:5414 “aThe peoples have heard about You, they tremble;Anguish and fear has gripped the inhabitants of Philistia.Deut 2:25; Hab 3:715 “Then the tribal achiefs of Edom were dismayed and horrified;bThe mighty leaders of Moab, trembling grips them;cAll the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away in despair—Gen 36:15, 40Num 22:3, 4Josh 2:9, 11, 24; 5:116 aTerror and dread fall on them;Because of bthe greatness of Your arm they are as still as a stone;Until Your people pass by and into Canaan, O LORD,Until the people pass by whom You chave purchased.Ex 23:27; Deut 2:25; Josh 2:9Ex 15:5, 6Ex 15:13; Ps 74:2; Is 43:1; Jer 31:11; Titus 2:14; 2 Pet 2:117 “aYou will bring them into the land of promise and bplant them on the cmountain (Mt. Moriah in Jerusalem) of Your inheritance,dThe place, O LORD, You have made for Your dwelling among them,eThe sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established.Ex 23:20; 32:34Ps 44:2; 80:8, 15Ps 2:6; 78:54, 68Ps 68:16; 76:2; 132:13, 14Ps 78:6918 “aThe LORD shall reign to eternity and beyond.”Ps 10:16; 29:10; Is 57:15 19 aFor the horses of Pharaoh went with his war-chariots and his charioteers into the sea, and the LORD brought back the waters of the sea on them, but the sons of Israel walked on bdry land in the middle of the sea.Ex 14:23, 28Ex 14:22, 29
20 Then aMiriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron and Moses, took a btimbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her with timbrels and cdancing. Mic 6:4Ex 2:4; Num 26:59; 1 Chr 6:3; Mic 6:4Judg 11:34; 1 Sam 18:6; 1 Chr 15:16; Ps 68:25; 81:2; 149:3; Jer 31:4Judg 11:34; 21:21; 1 Sam 18:6; Ps 30:11; 150:4 21 Miriam answered them,“aSing to the LORD, for He has triumphed gloriously and is highly exalted;The horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea.”Ex 15:1
22 aThen Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went into bthe Wilderness of cShur; they went a distance of three days (about thirty-three miles) in the wilderness and found no water.Ps 77:20; 78:52, 53Num 33:8Gen 16:7; 20:1; 25:18 23 Then they came to aMarah, but they could not drink its waters because they were 1bitter; therefore it was named Marah (bitter) .The water may have been like that of the Dead Sea, which has such a high salt content that it is bitter, and the natural reaction when attempting to sample it is to spit it out immediately.Num 33:8; Ruth 1:20 24 The people grew discontented and agrumbled at Moses, saying, “What are we going to drink?”Ex 14:11; 16:2; Ps 106:13 25 Then he acried to the LORD for help, and the LORD showed him ba tree, a branch of which he threw into the waters, and the waters became sweet.God tests His people to see if they are learning from past experiences and growing in spiritual maturity.Ex 14:10Ezek 47:7, 8Josh 24:25Ex 16:4; Deut 8:2, 16; Judg 2:22; 3:1, 4; Ps 66:10
There the LORD cmade a statute and an ordinance for them, and there 1He dtested them, 26 saying, “aIf you will diligently listen and pay attention to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His sight, and listen to bHis commandments, and keep foremost in your thoughts and actively obey all His precepts and statutes, then cI will not put on you any of the diseases which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am dthe 1LORD who heals you.”Heb YHWH (Yahweh)-Ropheeka.Ex 19:5, 6; Deut 7:12Ex 20:2-17Deut 7:15; 28:58, 60Ex 23:25; Deut 32:39; Ps 41:3, 4; 103:3; 147:3
27 Then the children of Israel came to aElim where there were twelve springs of water and seventy date palms, and they camped there beside the waters.Num 33:9