Psalms 106:9

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.

Cross-references · 16

• Ps 18:15Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
• Isa 51:10Isn’t it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
• Isa 63:11–14Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?”
• Nah 1:4He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.
• Ps 78:13He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.
• Exod 14:21–22Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
• Exod 14:27–29Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.
• Neh 9:11You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
• Ps 136:13–16To him who divided the Red Sea apart; for his loving kindness endures forever;
• Ps 66:6He turned the sea into dry land. They went through the river on foot. There, we rejoiced in him.
• Ps 77:19–20Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.
• Ps 78:52–53But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
• Ps 114:3–7The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.
• Isa 50:2Why, when I came, was there no one? when I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t 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 stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.
• Matt 8:26He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.
• Isa 11:14–16They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west. Together they will plunder the children of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon will obey them.

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