He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
Parallel translations
- WEB He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.
- BSB He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.
- NKJV He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it dried up; So He led them through the depths, As through the wilderness.
- NASB So He rebuked the Red Sea and it dried up, And He led them through the mighty waters, as through the wilderness.
- NLT He commanded the Red Sea to dry up. He led Israel across the sea as if it were a desert.
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Quick answer
God rebuked the Red Sea so it dried up, and led them through as on dry ground. It matters because He commands creation to make a way of salvation.
Overview
At the Exodus God parted the sea and led Israel safely across (Exodus 14:21-22). His rebuke of the waters shows His sovereign authority over creation. This dramatic deliverance became the defining picture of God's saving power, ultimately surpassed in the redemption accomplished by Christ.
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- Ps 18:15Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
- Isa 51:10Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
- Isa 63:11–14Then 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?
- Nah 1:4He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
- Ps 78:13He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
- Exod 14:21–22And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
- Exod 14:27–29And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
- Neh 9:11And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
- Ps 136:13–16To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever:
- Ps 66:6He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
- Ps 77:19–20Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
- Ps 78:52–53But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
- Ps 114:3–7The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
- Isa 50:2Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
- Matt 8:26And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
- Isa 11:14–16But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
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