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Exodus 15:13

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With loving devotion You will lead the people You have redeemed; with Your strength You will guide them to Your holy dwelling.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Thou in thy lovingkindness hast led the people that thou hast redeemed: Thou hast guided them in thy strength to thy holy habitation.

KJV

Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.

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This verse in Exodus 15

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation - As this ode was dictated by the Spirit of God, It is most natural to understand this and the following verses, to the end of the 18th, as containing a prediction of what God would do for this people which he had so miraculously redeemed. On this mode of interpretation it would be better to read several of the verbs in the future tense.

This site's exposition

Thou stretchedst out thy right hand

on Exodus 15:12-13

The earth swallowed them is an odd verb for a drowning, and Numbers 16:32 uses it again of Korah when the ground opens. Verse 13 turns from the army to the people and sets two words together, mercy and redeemed, with the verb redeem first given at 6:6 where God promised to redeem with a stretched out arm. The destination is named before they know the road, since he has guided them in his strength unto his holy habitation.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

THOU IN THY LOVE HAST LED THE PEOPLE THAT THOU HAST REDEEMED; THOU HAST GUIDED THEM IN THY STRENGTH TO THY HOLY HABITATION. Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra explained that this is a past tense in place of the future, as is customary in prophecies.
Ramban: Spain, 1194–1270 · Ramban on Exodus 15:13:1, via Sefaria, Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976
2 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
THOU STRETCHEDST OUT THY RIGHT HAND — THE EARTH ‘TIVLA’EIMO’ (SWALLOWED THEM). The meaning is that “after you blew with Your wind and the sea covered them, You stretched out Your right hand and Your arm, 203 Verse: By the greatness of Thine arm… and the earth swallowed them.
Ramban: Spain, 1194–1270 · Ramban on Exodus 15:12:1, via Sefaria, Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976
The purport thereof is: “when the people will hear [of Thy visitation upon the Egyptians], they will tremble from the blow of Thy hands, and pangs will take hold of the inhabitants of Philistia when they will hear [of those deeds].
Ramban: Spain, 1194–1270 · Ramban on Exodus 15:14:1, via Sefaria, Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

10 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • נָחִ֥יתָyou have guided

    nachitaH5148 →39 times

  • בְחַסְדְּךָ֖in covenant loyalty your

    vechasdekhaH2617 →247 times

  • עַם־[the] people

    ʾam-H5971 →1873 times

  • ז֣וּwhich

    zuH2098 →

  • גָּאָ֑לְתָּyou have redeemed

    gaaletaH1350 →

  • נֵהַ֥לְתָּyou have led [them]

    nehaltaH5095 →

  • בְעָזְּךָ֖by strength your

    veazekhaH5797 →

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • נְוֵ֥ה[the] abode of

    nevehH5116 →

  • קָדְשֶֽׁךָ׃holiness your

    kodshechaH6944 →469 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Psalms 77:20You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.12 worksIsaiah 43:1Now this is what the LORD says— He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine!8 works1 Peter 1:5who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.7 worksPsalms 78:52–54He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.5 worksPsalms 106:9He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.5 worksPsalms 77:14–15You are the God who works wonders; You display Your strength among the peoples.5 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Psalms 74:2Remember Your congregation, which You purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance— Mount Zion where You dwell.5 worksPsalms 78:35And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.5 worksJeremiah 2:6They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’4 worksIsaiah 63:12–13who sent His glorious arm to lead them by the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to gain for Himself everlasting renown,4 worksExodus 6:6Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.4 worksIsaiah 51:10Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?4 worksPsalms 136:24and freed us from our enemies. His loving devotion endures forever.4 worksGenesis 19:16But when Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters. And they led them safely out of the city, because of the LORD’s compassion for them.3 worksPsalms 80:1Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock; You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth3 worksEphesians 2:4But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,3 worksDeuteronomy 9:26And I prayed to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance, whom You redeemed through Your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.3 works2 Samuel 15:25Then the king said to Zadok, “Return the ark of God to the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, He will bring me back and let me see both it and His dwelling place again.3 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Peter 1:5

    who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

    it leads to

    • Philippians 1:6

      being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

    • Ephesians 2:8

      For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,

    • 2 Thessalonians 2:13–14

      But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by…

    • Romans 8:31–39

      What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

    • Job 19:25

      But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.

  • Through

    Psalms 106:9

    He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 18:15

      The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at Your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.

    • Isaiah 63:11–14

      Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His…

  • Through

    Psalms 77:20

    You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 13:21

      And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel…

Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Exodus: the study guide →Read Exodus 15 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.

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