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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

Exodus 15:25

A tree ... - The statement points to a natural agency, but the result was manifestly supernatural.

He made ... - The Lord then set before them the fundamental principle of implicit trust, to be shown by obedience. The healing of the water was a symbol of deliverance from physical and spiritual evils.

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See also Exodus 15:25 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 15:25. _HE CRIED UNTO THE LORD_] Moses was not only their leader, but also their _mediator_. Of prayer and dependence on the Almighty, the great mass of the Israelites appear to have had...

  • 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

    TREE. The Cross is the Divine provision for every trial: See Olney Hymns, i. 13. Jehovah showed it. HE: i.e. Jehovah....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 85 THE WATERS OF MARAH SWEETENED Exodus 15:24. _And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when h...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND HE CRIED UNTO THE LORD; AND THE LORD SHEWED HIM A TREE, &C.— As soon as the Israelites felt the least inconvenience, they shewed that murmuring and discontented disposition, which so strongly mark...

  • 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 HE CRIED UNTO THE LORD; AND THE LORD SHEWED HIM A TREE, WHICH WHEN HE HAD CAST INTO THE WATERS, THE WATERS WERE MADE SWEET: THERE HE MADE FOR THEM A STATUTE AND AN ORDINANCE, AND THERE HE PROVED...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    15:25 ordinance; (d-32) See ch 12.24. 'Ordinance' is literally 'judgment.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE LORD SHEWED HIM A TREE] There are certain plants whose bark and leaves are employed to sweeten bitter water. Lesseps mentions a kind of thorn found in the desert possessing anti-saline properties....

  • 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...

  • 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 LORD SHEWED HIM A TREE. — There are trees which have the power of sweetening bitter water; but none of them is at present found in the Sinaitic peninsula, and the Arabs are not now acquainted with...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּצְעַ֣ק אֶל ־יְהוָ֗ה וַ יֹּורֵ֤הוּ יְהוָ

  • 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....

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, [which] when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there (n) he pr...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    A tree, (lignum,) or piece of wood, which had the natural property here ascribed to it, Ecclesiasticus xxxviii. 4. (Calmet) --- Though we can hardly suppose, that all the collection of waters would be...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    See the sweet effect of prayer. Observe, the Lord showed him relief is not of man, but of the Lord. The Jews, in their tradition of this providence, remark, that the tree itself was bitter, but the ef...

  • 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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _BITTER WATERS SWEETENED_ ‘The waters were made sweet.’ Exodus 15:25 We have in our text a parable of the deep things of Christ. I. ISRAEL WAS IN THOSE DAYS FRESH, FROM THEIR GLORIOUS DELIVERANCE...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    25._And he cried. _Hence we gather that Moses alone duly prayed when the people tumultuously rose against him, and that they who were not worthy of the common air itself were abundantly supplied with...

  • 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 HE CRIED UNTO THE LORD,.... Or prayed, as all the Targums, that God would appear for them, and relieve them in their distress, or, humanly speaking, they must all perish: happy it is to have a God...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, [which] when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Exo. 15:25, 26. "And the Lord showed him a tree which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet," etc. "I am the Lord that healeth thee." This tree is the tree of life, and signifie...

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

    _He cried unto the Lord_ Moses did what they ought to have done. He made request unto the Lord for help in this distress. It is the greatest relief of the cares of magistrates and ministers, when thos...

  • 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 he cried unto the Lord, for counsel and assistance; AND THE LORD SHOWED HIM A TREE, indicated some wood to him, WHICH WHEN HE HAD CAST INTO THE WATERS, THE WATERS WERE MADE SWEET, as palatable and...

  • 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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE WATERS WERE MADE SWEET, not so much by any virtue in that tree, as by the power of God, who used this rather as a sign to the Israelites, than as an instrument to himself in this work. THERE HE MA...

  • 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 15:25 out H6817 (H8799) LORD H3068 LORD H3068 showed H3384 (H8686) tree H6086 cast H7993 ...

  • 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...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    WHEN HE HAD CAST INTO THE WATERS These bitter waters were in the very path of the Lord's leading, and stand for the trials of God's people, which are educatory and not punitive. The "tree" is the cro...

  • 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—NOTE ON EXODUS 15:24 GRUMBLED. Israel had just seen the power of the Lord unforgettably demonstrated, yet they failed to trust him. In contrast, Moses CRIED TO THE LORD to meet t

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 15:25 The STATUTE calls Israel to obey all that the Lord has commanded and all that he will reveal later. This requires that the people follow Moses, through whom they will liste...

  • 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

    cried Exodus 14:10 Exodus 17:4 Psalms 50:15 Psalms 91:15 Psalms 99:6...

  • 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

    And he cried unto the Lord — It is the greatest relief of the cares of magistrates and ministers, when those under their charge make them uneasy, that they may have recourse to God by prayer; he is th...

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