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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Exodus 15:27

Palm trees were both pleasant for their shade, and refreshing for their sweet fruit. Thus the Israelites are obliged and encouraged to the obedience commanded, by being put into better circumstances than they were under in their last station.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 15:27. _THEY CAME TO ELIM_] This was in the desert of _Sin_, and, according to Dr. Shaw, about two leagues from _Tor_, and thirty from _Marah_ or _Corondel_. _TWELVE WELLS OF WATER_] One...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    ELIM - The valley of Gharandel, two hours’ journey south of Huwara. TWELVE WELLS - Read springs; the Hebrew denotes natural sources. These springs may have been perennial when a richer vegetation clo...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WERE. Supply _Ellipsis, "_ they found", instead of "were". Compare Numbers 21:16. The scene at Rephidim (Exodus 17) after the thirty-nine years was be-cause they expected God to provide for them still...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND THEY CAME TO ELIM— Elim was situated upon the northern skirts of the desert of _Sin,_ two leagues from _Tor,_ and near thirty from _Corondel._ I saw, says Dr. Shaw, no more than nine of the _twelv...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THEY CAME TO ELIM, WHERE WERE TWELVE WELLS OF WATER, AND THREESCORE AND TEN PALM TREES: AND THEY ENCAMPED THERE BY THE WATERS._ Came to Elim - i:e., the trees, or palm grove; supposed by Robinso...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ELIM] The word means 'trees.' Elim is probably the modern Wady Ghurundel, 'where there is a good deal of vegetation, especially stunted palms, acacias, and tamarisks, and a number of water-holes in th...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    ELIM — the next stage to Marah, where there were “twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees” — seems to be rightly identified with the Wady Ghurundel in which “abundant grass grows thic...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יָּבֹ֣אוּ אֵילִ֔מָה וְ שָׁ֗ם שְׁתֵּ֥ים עֶש

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Elim, to the north-west of Sinai. Shaw says there are now only nine fountains. (Haydock) --- Strabo mentions a place of this description, five days' journey from Jericho, which was consecrated to the...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Marah dispensations will be succeeded by Elim comforts. How happy Paul felt himself under both. Philippians 4:12. Are these wells, which were twelve in number, typical of the tribes of Israel, and the...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    27._And they came to Elim. _Moses here relates that a more pleasant station was granted to the people, when they were led to a well-watered spot, even planted with palm-trees, which do not usually gro...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THEY CAME TO ELIM,.... On the twenty fifth of Nisan; for, according to Aben Ezra, they stayed but one day at Marah. Elim, as a late traveller r says, was upon the northern skirts of the desert of...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And they came to Elim, where [were] twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters. Ver. 27. _And they came to Elim._] The heathens slandered the Jews...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Exo. 15:27. "And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm-trees; and they encamped there by the waters." These twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten pal...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Twelve wells of water_ One for each tribe, and the seventy palm-trees affording a cooling shade....

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they encamped there by the waters. In this beautiful oasis the people had an opportunity to refresh them...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    IN THE WILDERNESS OF SHUR...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    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...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 15:27 came H935 (H8799) Elim H362 twelve H8147 H6240 wells H5869 water H4325 seventy H7657 trees...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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;...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 15:27 ELIM, with its TWELVE SPRINGS and SEVENTY PALM TREES, showed Israel that, since the Lord was leading them, they should not complain too quickly about difficult c

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Elim. This was on the northern skirts of the desert of Sin, Numbers 33:9 Isaiah 12:3 Ezekiel 47:12 Revelation 7:17...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    FAITH AS EXEMPLIFIED IN MOSES Selections from Exodus 3:1; Exodus 6:1; Exodus 7:1; Exodus 8:1;...

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