Exo 14:22-28, Jos 3:15-16, 4:18, 23-24, Neh 9:11, Psa 18:15, 66:6 | TSK | STEP | the children. and the waters.This verse demonstrates that this event was wholly miraculous, and cannot be ascribed, as some have supposed, to an extraordinary ebb, which happened just then to be produced by a strong east wind: for this would not have caused the waters, contrary to every law of fluids, to stand as a wall on the right hand and the left. a wall.

Exodus 14:22-28

the children.

29; 15:19; Nu 33:8; Ps 66:6; 78:13; Isa 63:13; 1Co 10:1; Heb 11:29

and the waters.This verse demonstrates that this event was wholly miraculous, and cannot be ascribed, as some have supposed, to an extraordinary ebb, which happened just then to be produced by a strong east wind: for this would not have caused the waters, contrary to every law of fluids, to stand as a wall on the right hand and the left.

a wall.

15:8; Hab 3:8-10; Zec 2:5

17; 15:9,19; 1Ki 22:20; Ec 9:3; Isa 14:24-27

that in the.

1Sa 11:11

looked unto.

Job 40:12; Ps 18:13,14; 77:16-19; 104:32

through.

19,20

and troubled.

25; Job 22:13; 23:15,16; 34:20,29; Ps 48:5

took off.

Jud 4:15; Ps 46:9; 76:6; Jer 51:21

that they drave them heavily. or, and made them to goheavily. Let us flee.

Job 11:20; 20:24; 27:22; Ps 68:12; Am 1:14; 5:19; 9:1

for the Lord.

14; De 3:22; 1Sa 4:7,8

Stretch out.

16; 7:19; 8:5; Mt 8:27

the waters.

1:22; Jud 1:6,7; Mt 7:2; Jas 2:13; Re 16:6

and the sea.

21,22; 15:1-21; Jos 4:18

Lord.

Jud 5:20,21

overthrew. Heb. shook off.

the waters.

15:10; De 11:4; Ne 9:11; Ps 78:53; Hab 3:8-10,13; Heb 11:29

remained.

13; 2Ch 20:24; Ps 106:9-11; 136:15

Joshua 3:15-16

the feet.

13; Isa 26:6

Jordan overfloweth.The ordinary current of the Jordan, near where the Israelites crossed, is said by Maundrell, to be about twenty yards across, deeper than a man's height, and so rapid, that there is no swimming against it. It has, however, two banks; the first, or inner one, is that of the river in its natural state, and the second, or outer one, about a furlong distant, is that of its overflowings, which it does when the summer's sun has melted the snow on mount Lebanon and Hermon, in the months of March and April. And this was the time which God chose that the Israelites should pass over it; that a miraculous interposition might be necessary; and that, by the miracle, they might be convinced of his omnipotence.

4:18; 1Ch 12:15; Jer 12:5; 49:19

all the time.

5:10-12; Le 23:10-16; De 16:1-9

rose up.

13; Ps 29:10; 77:19; 114:3; Mt 8:26,27; 14:24-33

Zaretan.

1Ki 4:12

Zartanah.

1Ki 7:46

Zarthan. the salt sea.

15:2; Ge 14:3; Nu 34:3; De 3:17The passage through the Red Sea took place in the night, when the Israelites were fleeing from the Egyptians with great trepidation: but they passed Jordan in the day-time, with previous warning, leisurely, directly opposite to Jericho, and with a triumphant defiance of the Canaanites; this passage into the promised land evidently typifying the believer's passage through death to heaven.

Joshua 4:18

the soles.

3:13,15

lifted up. Heb. plucked up. that the waters.As soon as the priests and the ark were come up out of Jordan, the waters of the river, which had stood on a heap, flowed down according to their natural and usual course, and again soon filled the channel. This make it abundantly evident, that the miraculous change which had been given to the river was not from any secret natural cause, but solely by the power of God, and for the sake of his chosen people; for when Israel's host had passed through, and the token of his presence was removed, immediately the waters went forward again: so that if it be asked, "What aileth thee, O Jordan, that thou wast driven back?" it must be answered, it was in obedience to the God of Israel, and in kindness to the Israel of God.

Ex 14:26-28

and flowed. Heb. went.

3:15; 1Ch 12:15; Isa 8:8

Joshua 4:23-24

as the Lord.The parents must take that occasion to tell their children of the drying up of the Red Sea forty years before: "As the Lord your God did to the Red Sea." It greatly magnifies later mercies to compare them with those before enjoyed; for, by making the comparison, it appears that God is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever. Later blessings should also bring to remembrance former mercies, and revive thankfulness for them.

which he dried.

Ex 14:21; Ne 9:11; Ps 77:16-19; 78:13; Isa 43:16; 63:12-14

all the people.

Ex 9:16; De 28:10; 1Sa 17:46; 1Ki 8:42,43; 2Ki 5:15; 19:19

Ps 106:8; Da 3:26-29; 4:34,35; 6:26,27

that it is.

Ex 15:16; 1Ch 29:12; Ps 89:13

ye might.

Ex 14:31; 20:20; De 6:2; Ps 76:6-8; 89:7; Jer 10:6,7; 32:40

for ever. Heb. all days.