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Exodus 15:12

When your right hand was stretched out, the mouth of the earth was open for them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Epic;   Faith;   God Continued...;   Joy;   Poetry;   Power;   Praise;   Psalms;   Readings, Select;   Song;   Thankfulness;   The Topic Concordance - Guidance;   Opposition;   Redemption;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies of Israel, the;   Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Power of God, the;   Praise;   Providence of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Exodus;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Egypt;   Exodus;   Exodus, book of;   Holiness;   Moses;   Power;   Sanctification;   Victory;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Deuteronomy, Theology of;   God, Names of;   Moses;   Vengeance;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Judgments of God;   Singing;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Exodus;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Dance;   Miriam;   Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   Hymn;   Omnipotence;   Poetry;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Exodus;   Joy;   Poetry;   Praise;   Wars of the Lord, Book of the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Hand ;   Hymn;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hymns;   1910 New Catholic Dictionary - canticle;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ouches;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mir'iam;   Mo'ses;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Earth;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - War;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Sinai;   Time Given to Religion;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Moses, Song of;   Sanctification;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Joshua, the Samaritan Book of;   Poetry;   Wisdom of Solomon, Book of the;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You stretched out your right hand. The eretz swallowed them.
King James Version
Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
Lexham English Bible
You stretched out your right hand; the earth swallowed them.
New Century Version
You reached out with your right hand, and the earth swallowed our enemies.
New English Translation
You stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them.
Amplified Bible
"You stretched out Your right hand, The sea swallowed them.
New American Standard Bible
"You reached out with Your right hand, The earth swallowed them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou stretchedst out thy right hande, the earth swallowed them.
Legacy Standard Bible
You stretched out Your right hand,The earth swallowed them.
Contemporary English Version
When you signaled with your right hand, your enemies were swallowed deep into the earth.
Complete Jewish Bible
You reached out with your right hand: the earth swallowed them.
Darby Translation
Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
Easy-to-Read Version
You raised your right hand to punish the enemy, and the ground opened up to swallow them.
English Standard Version
You stretched out your right hand; the earth swallowed them.
George Lamsa Translation
Thou didst lift up thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
Good News Translation
You stretched out your right hand, and the earth swallowed our enemies.
Christian Standard Bible®
You stretched out your right hand,and the earth swallowed them.
Literal Translation
You stretched Your right hand ; the earth swallowed them.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
When thou stretchedest out yi right hande, the earth swalowed them vp.
American Standard Version
Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, The earth swallowed them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou stretchedst out thy right hande, the earth swalowed them.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou stretchedst out Thy right hand--the earth swallowed them.
King James Version (1611)
Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou stretchedst forth thy right hand, the earth swallowed them up.
English Revised Version
Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, The earth swallowed them.
Berean Standard Bible
You stretched out Your right hand, and the earth swallowed them up.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou heldist forth thin hond, and the erthe deuouride hem;
Young's Literal Translation
Thou hast stretched out Thy right hand -- Earth swalloweth them!
Update Bible Version
You stretched out your right hand, The earth swallowed them.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
World English Bible
You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.
New King James Version
You stretched out Your right hand; The earth swallowed them.
New Living Translation
You raised your right hand, and the earth swallowed our enemies.
New Life Bible
You put out Your right hand, and the earth swallowed them.
New Revised Standard
You stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou didst stretch forth thy right hand, earth swallowed them up.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou stretchedst forth thy hand, and the earth swallowed them.
Revised Standard Version
Thou didst stretch out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
THE MESSAGE
You stretched out your right hand and the Earth swallowed them up. But the people you redeemed, you led in merciful love; You guided them under your protection to your holy pasture.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You stretched out Your right hand, The earth swallowed them.

Contextual Overview

1 Then Moses and the children of Israel made this song to the Lord, and said, I will make a song to the Lord, for he is lifted up in glory: the horse and the horseman he has sent down into the sea. 2 The Lord is my strength and my strong helper, he has become my salvation: he is my God and I will give him praise; my father's God and I will give him glory. 3 The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name. 4 Pharaoh's war-carriages and his army he has sent down into the sea: the best of his captains have gone down into the Red Sea. 5 They were covered by the deep waters: like a stone they went down under the waves. 6 Full of glory, O Lord, is the power of your right hand; by your right hand those who came against you are broken. 7 When you are lifted up in power, all those who come against you are crushed: when you send out your wrath, they are burned up like dry grass. 8 By your breath the waves were massed together, the flowing waters were lifted up like a pillar; the deep waters became solid in the heart of the sea. 9 Egypt said, I will go after them, I will overtake, I will make division of their goods: my desire will have its way with them; my sword will be uncovered, my hand will send destruction on them. 10 You sent your wind and the sea came over them: they went down like lead into the great waters.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

stretchedst: Exodus 15:6

Reciprocal: Psalms 136:15 - for his mercy Zephaniah 1:4 - stretch Luke 1:51 - showed

Cross-References

Genesis 2:21
And the Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man, and took one of the bones from his side while he was sleeping, joining up the flesh again in its place:
Genesis 15:3
And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.
Genesis 15:5
And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.
Genesis 15:8
And he said, O Lord God, how may I be certain that it will be mine?
Genesis 15:9
And he said, Take a young cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a sheep of three years old, and a dove and a young pigeon.
Genesis 15:13
And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;
Genesis 15:14
But I will be the judge of that nation whose servants they are, and they will come out from among them with great wealth.
1 Samuel 26:12
So David took the spear and the vessel of water from Saul's head; and they got away without any man seeing them, or being conscious of their coming, or awaking; for they were all sleeping because a deep sleep from the Lord had come on them.
Job 33:15
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;
Acts 20:9
And a certain young man named Eutychus, who was seated in the window, went into a deep sleep; and while Paul went on talking, being overcome by sleep, he had a fall from the third floor, and was taken up dead.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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, Jonah 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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

With the deliverance of Israel is associated the development of the national poetry, which finds its first and perfect expression in this magnificent hymn. It was sung by Moses and the people, an expression which evidently points to him as the author. That it was written at the time is an assertion expressly made in the text, and it is supported by the strongest internal evidence. In every age this song gave the tone to the poetry of Israel; especially at great critical epochs of deliverance: and in the book of Revelation Exodus 15:3 it is associated with the final triumph of the Church.

The division of the song into three parts is distinctly marked: Exodus 15:1-5; Exodus 15:6-10; Exodus 15:11-18 : each begins with an ascription of praise to God; each increases in length and varied imagery unto the triumphant close.

Exodus 15:1

He hath triumphed gloriously - Literally, He is gloriously glorious.

The horse and his rider - The word “rider” may include horseman, but applies properly to the charioteer.

Exodus 15:2

The Lord is my strength and song - My strength and song is Jah. See Psalms 68:4. The name was chosen here by Moses to draw attention to the promise ratified by the name “I am.”

I will prepare Him an habitation - I will glorify Him. Our Authorized Version is open to serious objection, as suggesting a thought (namely, of erecting a temple) which could hardly have been in the mind of Moses at that time, and unsuited to the occasion.

Exodus 15:3

A man of war - Compare Psalms 24:8. The name has on this occasion a special fitness: man had no part in the victory; the battle was the Lord’s.

The Lord is his name - “Jah is His name.” See Exodus 15:2.

Exodus 15:4

Hath He cast - “Hurled,” as from a sling. See Exodus 14:27.

His chosen captains - See Exodus 14:7 note.

Exodus 15:5

As a stone - The warriors in chariots are always represented on the monuments with heavy coats of mail; the corslets of “chosen captains” consisted of plates of highly tempered bronze, with sleeves reaching nearly to the elbow, covering the whole body and the thighs nearly to the knee. The wearers must have sunk at once like a stone, or as we read in Exodus 5:10, like lumps of lead.

Exodus 15:7

Thy wrath - Literally, Thy burning, i. e. the fire of Thy wrath, a word chosen expressly with reference to the effect.

Exodus 15:8

The blast of God’s nostrils corresponds to the natural agency, the east wind Exodus 14:21, which drove the waters back: on the north the waters rose high, overhanging the sands, but kept back by the strongwind: on the south they laid in massive rollers, kept down by the same agency in the deep bed of the Red Sea.

Exodus 15:9

The enemy said - The abrupt, gasping utterances; the haste, cupidity and ferocity of the Egyptians; the confusion and disorder of their thoughts, belong to the highest order of poetry. They enable us to realize the feelings which induced Pharaoh and his host to pursue the Israelites over the treacherous sandbanks.

Exodus 15:10

Thou didst blow with thy wind - Notice the solemn majesty of these few words, in immediate contrast with the tumult and confusion of the preceding verse. In Exodus 14:28, we read only, “the waters returned,” here we are told that it was because the wind blew. A sudden change in the direction of the wind would bring back at once the masses of water heaped up on the north.

They sank as lead - See the note at Exodus 15:5.

Exodus 15:11

Among the gods - Compare Psalms 86:8; Deuteronomy 32:16-17. A Hebrew just leaving the land in which polytheism attained its highest development, with gigantic statues and temples of incomparable grandeur, might well on such an occasion dwell upon this consummation of the long series of triumphs by which the “greatness beyond compare” of Yahweh was once for all established.

Exodus 15:13

Thy holy habitation - Either Palestine, regarded as the land of promise, sanctified by manifestations of God to the Patriarchs, and destined to be both the home of God’s people, and the place where His glory and purposes were to be perfectly revealed: or Mount Moriah.

Exodus 15:14

The inhabitants of Palestina - i. e. the country of the Philistines. They were the first who would expect an invasion, and the first whose district would have been invaded but for the faintheartedness of the Israelites.

Exodus 15:15

The dukes of Edom - See Genesis 36:15. It denotes the chieftains, not the kings of Edom.

The mighty men of Moab - The physical strength and great stature of the Moabites are noted in other passages: see Jeremiah 48:29, Jeremiah 48:41.

Canaan - The name in this, as in many passages of Genesis, designates the whole of Palestine: and is used of course with reference to the promise to Abraham. It was known to the Egyptians, and occurs frequently on the monuments as Pa-kanana, which applies, if not to the whole of Palestine, yet to the northern district under Lebanon, which the Phoenicians occupied and called “Canaan.”

Exodus 15:17

In the mountain of thine inheritance - See Exodus 15:13.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 15:12. 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; Psalms 77:18.


 
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