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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

Exodus 15:23

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.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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,...

  • 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 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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    15:23 Marah. (c-25) Bitterness....

  • 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

    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...

  • 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

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יָּבֹ֣אוּ מָרָ֔תָה וְ לֹ֣א יָֽכְל֗וּ לִ

  • 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

    _Mara, about halfway between Suez and Mt. Sinai. The waters are said to be still potable, though of a disagreeable nitrous taste. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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....

  • 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 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 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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • 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

    IN THE WILDERNESS OF SHUR...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • 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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    MARAH: that is, Bitterness...

  • 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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • 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 15:23 came H935 (H8799) Marah H4785 could H3201 (H8804) drink H8354 (H8800) waters H4325 Marah...

  • 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 children's great texts of the Bible by James Hastings

    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...

  • 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 Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • 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

    Marah Numbers 33:8 marah. i.e. bitterness Ruth 1:20...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

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

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The name of it was called Marah — That is, Bitterness....

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