Marah - Now identified with the fount of Huwara. The fountain rises from a large mound, a whitish petrifaction, deposited by the water, and is considered by the Arabians to be the worst in the whole district.
Verse Exodus 15:23. _MARAH_] So called from the _bitter waters_ found there. Dr. Shaw conjectures that this place is the same as that now called _Corondel_, where there is still a small rill which, i...
II. THE JOURNEY TOWARDS THE PROMISED LAND AND ISRAEL AT SINAI 1. The Experiences in the Wilderness CHAPTER 15:22-27 In the Wilderness of Shur _ 1. Marah (Exodus 15:22)_ 2. Elim (Exodus 15:27) They...
BITTER WATERS MADE SWEET (Exodus 15:22 a J, Exodus 15:25 b E, Exodus 15:26 Rje, Exodus 15:27 J). The wilderness of Shur stretched E. of the present
MARAH. Bitter. The Divine principle in the training of God's People. Foreshown in Abraham's furnace and lamp; Marah before Elim; wilderness before Canaan; cross before crown; worse before better (John...
WHEN THEY CAME TO MARAH— Moses tells us, in the close of the verse, that the place was called _Marah,_ from the _bitterness_ of the waters there. "In travelling from _Sdur,_ Or _Shur,"_ says Dr. Shaw,...
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 15THEN SANG MO-SES AND THE CHILDREN OF IS-RA-EL THIS SONG UNTO JE-HO-VAH, AND SPAKE, SAYING, I will sing unto Je-ho-vah, for he hath triumphed gloriously: The horse an...
_AND WHEN THEY CAME TO MARAH, THEY COULD NOT DRINK OF THE WATERS OF MARAH, FOR THEY WERE BITTER: THEREFORE THE NAME OF IT WAS CALLED MARAH._ Came to Marah - following the general route of all travele...
15:23 Marah. (c-25) Bitterness....
THE SONG OF MOSES On the further shore of the Red Sea the Israelites celebrate their deliverance in a magnificent hymn of praise. It consists of three strophes or stanzas of increasing length, viz. Ex...
MARAH] lit. 'bitterness': cp. Ruth 1:20. This station is by some identified with Ain Suweirah, 30 m. S. of the present head of the Gulf of Suez. The bitterness of the springs in this district is attes...
EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 15 MOSES AND MIRIAM SING A SONG – VERSES 1-18 V1 Then Moses and the...
THE WATERS OF MARAH... WERE BITTER. — The extreme bitterness of the springs at the southern extremity of the wilderness of Shur is witnessed to by all travellers. (Burckhardt: _Travels in Syria,_ p. 7...
וַ יָּבֹ֣אוּ מָרָ֔תָה וְ לֹ֣א יָֽכְל֗וּ לִ
MARAH'S WATERS SWEETENED; ELIM'S REST Exodus 15:19 How rapid are the transitions of life! Today the song of victory, tomorrow the bitter wells of Marah, and the next the shadow of Elim's palms! One m...
It was a great and glorious song thatrose on the morning air on the far side of the sea. A study of it will reveal it to be a song of the King. It was a high ecstatic moment of national consciousness....
_Mara, about halfway between Suez and Mt. Sinai. The waters are said to be still potable, though of a disagreeable nitrous taste. (Calmet)_...
Is not this a spiritual lesson also? When we obtain creature comforts, are they not sometimes, nay, for the most part, bitter? Marah means bitter. Ruth 1:20....
There is hardly a book of the Old Testament that stands out in more decided contrast with the book of Genesis than the one which follows it most closely. And this is the more striking, because God emp...
Hereupon we enter the desert. They sing (chap. 15) the song of triumph. God has led them by His power to His holy habitation. But they are on this journey, not in Canaan. He will lead them into the pl...
AND WHEN THEY CAME TO MARAH,.... A place in the wilderness, afterwards so called from the quality of the waters found here; wherefore this name is by anticipation: THEY COULD NOT DRINK OF THE WATERS...
And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they [were] bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. Ver. 23. _They could not drink._] Water they now had, but...
1 Moses song. 22 The people want water. 23 The waters at Marah are bitter. 25 A tree sweetneth them. 27 At Elim are twelue wels, and seuentie palme trees. 1 THEN sang [NOTE: Genesis 1:20.] Moses a...
IN THE WILDERNESS OF SHUR...
And when they came to Marah, probably the modern Hawara, thirty-three miles from the place where they had crossed the sea, THEY COULD NOT DRINK OF THE WATERS OF MARAH, FOR THEY WERE BITTER, not merely...
FIFTH SECTION The journey through the wilderness to Sinai. Want of water. Marah. Elim. The Wilderness of Sin. Quails. Manna. Rephidim (Massah and Meribah). The Amalekites. Jethro and his advice, a hu...
THE SONG OF SALVATION (vs.1-19) This is the first song found in scripture, and a most fitting response to the greatness of God's victory in delivering His people. It is an expression of joy in the Lo...
MARAH: that is, Bitterness...
22-27 In the wilderness of Shur the Israelites had no water. At Marah they had water, but it was bitter; so that they could not drink it. God can make bitter to us that from which we promise ourselve...
No text from Poole on this verse....
This chapter opens with Israel's magnificent song of triumph on the shore of the Red Sea, when they had seen "that great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians." They had seen God's salvation, and...
Exodus 15:23 came H935 (H8799) Marah H4785 could H3201 (H8804) drink H8354 (H8800) waters H4325 Marah...
THE BEGINNING OF THE LONG MARCH: WATER SHORTAGE FOLLOWED BY PROVISION (EXODUS 15:22). a Moses leads Israel forward into the wilderness of Shur (Exodus 15:22 a). b They went three days in the wildern...
Exodus 15:23 From the story of Marah we learn these lessons: I. The water was deleterious, not distasteful only. Had the people drunk it, it would have wrought disease, but it was healed by the obed...
Exodus 15:1. _Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown...
CONTENTS: The song of the redeemed. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Miriam. CONCLUSION: Those who love God triumph in His triumphs and what is His honor is their joy. Our first thought should be to give glo...
Exodus 15:1. _Then sang Moses._ The Israelites sang in companies; and the one company often answered the other. See Bishop Lowth on the Hebrew Poetry. Also Psalms 68:25; Ecclesiastes 2:8;...
_They came to Marah._ MARAH I. The water was deleterious, not distasteful only. Had the people drunk it, it would have wrought disease; but it was healed by the obedience of Moses to God’s direction...
A WONDERFUL TREE They could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter:... and the Lord shewed him [Moses] a tree, and he cast it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. Exodus...
EXODUS 15:22 Journey. Israel journeys from Egypt to Rephidim and responds to difficulties like the need for water (Exodus 15:22; Exodus 17:1
CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 15:27. Elim.]—Probably = “palms,” Ges. Fü. Dav. By many identified with Wadi Gharendel, “situated 2½ miles S. of Howarah, and 2 miles N. of Tor, in a very beautiful valley of a...
EXPOSITION THE JOURNEY FROM THE RED SEA TO ELIM. After a stay, which cannot be exactly measured, but which was probably one of some days, near the point of the Eastern coast of the Gulf of Suez, at wh...
So Moses broke forth in song. Chapter fifteen is actually the song of Moses, of God's deliverance and victory. Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and they spake, sayin...
Marah Numbers 33:8 marah. i.e. bitterness Ruth 1:20...
FAITH AS EXEMPLIFIED IN MOSES Selections from Exodus 3:1; Exodus 6:1; Exodus 7:1; Exodus 8:1;...
The name of it was called Marah — That is, Bitterness....