Exodus 15:7
in Exodus 15You overthrew Your adversaries by Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.
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ASV
And in the greatness of thine excellency thou overthrowest them that rise up against thee: Thou sendest forth thy wrath, it consumeth them as stubble.
KJV
And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
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This verse in Exodus 15
Commentary
6 notes on this verseIn the greatness of thine excellency - To this wonderful deliverance the Prophet Isaiah refers, Isa 63:11-14: “Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? Where is he that put his Holy Spirit within him? That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name? That led them through the deep, as a horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
This site's exposition
Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power
on Exodus 15:6-7
The right hand is named twice in one verse, once for the glory and once for the blow. Then the fire image lands on a word Exodus has used before, since 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 out of the fields is the stuff the song makes of the army that drove them.
This site's exposition
You overthrew Your adversaries
The song names the Egyptians the LORD's own adversaries, so Pharaoh's quarrel with Israel is counted as a quarrel with God. Adam Clarke hears this deliverance recalled at Isaiah 63:11 to 14, where the people ask, Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Isaiah 63:14 says God made Himself a glorious name there.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 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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This destruction of the Egyptians was made the more remarkable by their pride and insolence, and their strange assurance of success: The enemy said, I will pursue,
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבְרֹ֥ב | uvero | and in [the] greatness of | H7230 → | |
| גְּאוֹנְךָ֖ | geonkha | majesty your | H1347 → | |
| תַּהֲרֹ֣ס | taharos | you threw down | H2040 → | 43 times |
| קָמֶ֑יךָ | kameicha | [those who] rose against you | H6965 → | 628 times |
| תְּשַׁלַּח֙ | teshalach | you sent forth | H7971 → | 845 times |
| חֲרֹ֣נְךָ֔ | charonekha | anger your | H2740 → | |
| יֹאכְלֵ֖מוֹ | yokhelemov | it consumed them | H398 → | 810 times |
| כַּקַּֽשׁ׃ | kakash | like <the> stubble | H7179 → |
וּבְרֹ֥בand in [the] greatness of
uveroH7230 →
גְּאוֹנְךָ֖majesty your
geonkhaH1347 →
תַּהֲרֹ֣סyou threw down
taharosH2040 →43 times
קָמֶ֑יךָ[those who] rose against you
kameichaH6965 →628 times
תְּשַׁלַּח֙you sent forth
teshalachH7971 →845 times
חֲרֹ֣נְךָ֔anger your
charonekhaH2740 →
יֹאכְלֵ֖מוֹit consumed them
yokhelemovH398 →810 times
כַּקַּֽשׁ׃like <the> stubble
kakashH7179 →
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
Isaiah 5:16But the LORD of Hosts will be exalted by His justice, and the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.
it leads to
- Isaiah 12:4
and on that day you will say: “Give praise to the LORD; proclaim His name! Make His works known among the peoples; declare that His name is exalted.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Psalms 46:10
“Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth.”
- 1 Chronicles 29:11
Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom,…
- 1 Peter 2:15
For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorance of foolish men.
- Isaiah 12:4
Through
Malachi 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of…
it leads to
- Isaiah 47:14
Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:8
in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
- 2 Peter 3:7
And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
- Malachi 3:2
But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap.
- Isaiah 47:14
Where this verse is studied
About Exodus
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.