21And 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.
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That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-31)We have here the history of that work of wonder which is so often mentioned both in the Old and New Testament, the dividing of the Red Sea before th 3b1a e children of Israel. It was the terror of the Canaanites ( Josh. 2:9 , 10 ), the praise and triumph of the Israelites, Ps. 114:3 ; Ps. 106:9 ; 136:13 , 14 . It was a type of baptism, 1 Cor. 10:1 , 2 . Israel’s passage through it was typical of t…
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