Exodus 15:6
in Exodus 15Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy.
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ASV
Thy right hand, O Jehovah, is glorious in power, Thy right hand, O Jehovah, dasheth in pieces the enemy.
KJV
Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
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This verse in Exodus 15
Commentary
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Your right hand, O LORD
on Exodus 15:6-7
Pharaoh's host is consumed as stubble, and stubble is what Israel was scattered across Egypt to gather when the straw was taken away at 5:12. The stuff the slaves scraped from the fields is what the song makes of the army that drove them.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
A commentator
Gregory the DialogistThe Book of Pastoral Rule, Part 3, Chapter 26 · Written before 604.
proposed
Thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemies. For the enemies of God, though they prosper in His left hand, are dashed to pieces with His right; since for the most part the present life elevates the bad, but the coming of eternal blessedness condemns them.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
), under the weight of their own guilt and God's wrath. Their sin had made them hard like a stone, and now they justly sink like a stone. Nay, the earth itself swallowed them (
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Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Thy right hand - Thy omnipotence, manifested in a most extraordinary way.
The words behind it
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| יְמִֽינְךָ֣ | yeminekha | right [hand] your | H3225 → | 140 times |
| יְהוָ֔ה | yahweh | O Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| נֶאְדָּרִ֖י | ne'dari | [was] glorious | H142 → | |
| בַּכֹּ֑חַ | bakoach | in <the> power | H3581 → | 126 times |
| יְמִֽינְךָ֥ | yeminekha | right [hand] your | H3225 → | 140 times |
| יְהוָ֖ה | yahweh | O Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| תִּרְעַ֥ץ | tiratz | it shattered | H7492 → | |
| אוֹיֵֽב׃ | ʾoyev | [the] enemy | H341 → | 282 times |
יְמִֽינְךָ֣right [hand] your
yeminekhaH3225 →140 times
יְהוָ֔הO Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
נֶאְדָּרִ֖י[was] glorious
ne'dariH142 →
בַּכֹּ֑חַin <the> power
bakoachH3581 →126 times
יְמִֽינְךָ֥right [hand] your
yeminekhaH3225 →140 times
יְהוָ֖הO Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
תִּרְעַ֥ץit shattered
tiratzH7492 →
אוֹיֵֽב׃[the] enemy
ʾoyevH341 →282 times
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
Psalms 2:9You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”
it leads to
- Revelation 12:5
And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was caught up to God and to His throne.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Revelation 2:26–27
And to the one who overcomes and continues in My work until the end, I will give authority over the nations.
- Revelation 12:5
Through
Revelation 2:27He will rule them with an iron scepter and shatter them like pottery—just as I have received authority from My Father.
it leads to
- Revelation 19:15
And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Psalms 2:8–9
Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.
- Isaiah 30:14
It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Revelation 19:15
Through
Isaiah 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the…
it leads to
- Psalms 74:13–14
You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;
- Psalms 89:10
You crushed Rahab like a carcass; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.
- Isaiah 52:1
Awake, awake, clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, holy city! For the uncircumcised and unclean will no longer enter you.
- Psalms 74:13–14
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Gregory the Dialogist, The Book of Pastoral Rule, Part 3, Chapter 26; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
