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Exodus 15:6

in Exodus 15

Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

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.

This verse in Exodus 15

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

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 Dialogist

The 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

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), 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

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Thy right hand - Thy omnipotence, manifested in a most extraordinary way.

The words behind it

8 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.

  • 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 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

    Psalms 2:9

    You 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.

  • Through

    Revelation 2:27

    He 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.

  • Through

    Isaiah 51:9

    Awake, 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.

Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.
The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.

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.