Exodus 15:14
in Exodus 15The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the dwellers of Philistia.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The peoples have heard, they tremble: Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.
KJV
The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.
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This verse in Exodus 15
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
The people shall hear, and be afraid
on Exodus 15:14-16
The song looks forward and names four peoples in the order they sit along the road to Canaan, Palestina, Edom, Moab and the inhabitants of Canaan. Forty years later Rahab says this back to the spies at Joshua 2:9 to 11, that terror is fallen upon us and our hearts did melt, and she names hearing about the Red sea as the cause. Verse 16 calls the people purchased, a word Genesis used of Abraham buying a burial field at 25:10, so the deliverance is described as a purchase and not only a rescue.
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How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
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].
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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.
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
7 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שָֽׁמְע֥וּ | shameu | they have heard | H8085 → | 1159 times |
| עַמִּ֖ים | ʾamim | peoples | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| יִרְגָּז֑וּן | yirgazun | they tremble ! | H7264 → | |
| חִ֣יל | chil | anguish | H2427 → | |
| אָחַ֔ז | ʾachaz | it has seized | H270 → | 67 times |
| יֹשְׁבֵ֖י | yoshevei | [the] inhabitants of | H3427 → | 1079 times |
| פְּלָֽשֶׁת׃ | pelashet | Philistia | H6429 → |
שָֽׁמְע֥וּthey have heard
shameuH8085 →1159 times
עַמִּ֖יםpeoples
ʾamimH5971 →1873 times
יִרְגָּז֑וּןthey tremble !
yirgazunH7264 →
חִ֣ילanguish
chilH2427 →
אָחַ֔זit has seized
ʾachazH270 →67 times
יֹשְׁבֵ֖י[the] inhabitants of
yosheveiH3427 →1079 times
פְּלָֽשֶׁת׃Philistia
pelashetH6429 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Deuteronomy 2:25This very day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon all the nations under heaven. They will hear the reports of you and tremble in anguish because of you.”
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 11:25
No man will be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will put the fear and dread of you upon all the land, wherever you set foot, as He has promised you.
- Exodus 15:14–16
The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the dwellers of Philistia.
- Deuteronomy 28:10
Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will stand in awe of you.
- Exodus 23:27
I will send My terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn and run.
- Joshua 9:24
The Gibeonites answered, “Your servants were told clearly that the LORD your God had commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land and wipe out all its inhabitants before you. So we…
- Deuteronomy 11:25
Through
Numbers 14:14And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have already heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, that You, O LORD, have been seen face…
it leads to
- Nehemiah 9:12
You led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should travel.
- Exodus 13:21–22
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…
- Nehemiah 9:12
Through
Isaiah 14:31Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! Melt away, all you Philistines! For a cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there are no stragglers in its ranks.
it leads to
- Isaiah 20:1
Before the year that the chief commander, sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and attacked and captured it,
- Isaiah 20:1
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This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.