Exodus 15:1-3

The Song of Moses and Miriam

1 Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: “I will sing to the LORD, for he is highly exalted. Both horse and driver he has hurled into the sea.
2 “The LORD is my strength and my defense[a] ; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
3 The LORD is a warrior; the LORD is his name.

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Exodus 15:1-3 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 15

This chapter contains the song of Moses, and of the children of Israel, on the banks of the Red sea; in which they celebrate their passage through it, the destruction of Pharaoh and his host in it, and the glory of the divine perfections displayed therein, interspersed with prophetic hints of things future, Ex 15:1-19 which same song was sung by the women, with Miriam at the head of them, attended with timbrels and dances, Ex 15:20,21, an account is given of the march of the children of Israel from the Red sea to the wilderness of Shur, and of the bitter waters found at Marah, which occasioned a murmuring, and of their being made sweet by casting a tree into them, Ex 15:22-25 when they were told by the Lord, that if they would yield obedience to his commandments, they should be free from the diseases the Egyptians had been afflicted with, Ex 15:26, and the chapter is concluded with their coming to Elim, where they found twelve wells of water, and seventy palm trees, and there encamped, Ex 15:27.

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Cross References 10

  • 1. Numbers 21:17; Judges 5:1; 2 Samuel 22:1; 1 Chronicles 16:9; Job 36:24; Psalms 59:16; Psalms 105:2; Revelation 15:3
  • 2. Judges 5:3; Psalms 13:6; Psalms 21:13; Psalms 27:6; Psalms 61:8; Psalms 104:33; Psalms 106:12; Isaiah 12:5,6; Isaiah 42:10; Isaiah 44:23
  • 3. Deuteronomy 11:4; Psalms 76:6; Jeremiah 51:21
  • 4. S Exodus 14:27
  • 5. Psalms 18:1; Psalms 59:17
  • 6. S Genesis 45:7; Exodus 14:13; Psalms 18:2,46; Psalms 25:5; Psalms 27:1; Psalms 62:2; Psalms 118:14; Isaiah 12:2; Isaiah 33:2; John 2:9; Habakkuk 3:18
  • 7. S Genesis 28:21
  • 8. Ex 3:6,15-16; Deuteronomy 10:21; 2 Samuel 22:47; Psalms 22:3; Psalms 30:1; Psalms 34:3; Psalms 35:27; Psalms 99:5; Psalms 103:19; Psalms 107:32; Psalms 108:5; Psalms 109:1; Psalms 118:28; Psalms 145:11; Psalms 148:14; Isaiah 24:15; Isaiah 25:1; Jeremiah 17:14; Daniel 4:37
  • 9. S Exodus 14:14; Psalms 24:8; Revelation 19:11
  • 10. S Exodus 3:15; Ex 6:2-3,7-8; Psalms 83:18

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