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Exodus 15 Bible study: The song at the sea
The song at the sea never mentions Moses' hand, only the LORD's. Its line "The LORD is my strength and song. He has become my salvation" (15:2) is sung again in Psalm 118:14, and in Revelation the victors sing "the song of Moses" with "the song of the Lamb" (Revelation 15:3). Three days later the singers murmured, and the LORD named himself "the LORD who heals you" (15:26).
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“The LORD is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.”
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“Psalm 118 repeats the words "The LORD is my strength and song. He has become my salvation."”
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What's really going on
Who is singing
The chapter before ends with "they believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses" (14:31). "Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the LORD" (15:1). The song speaks as one voice, "I will sing to the LORD" and "The LORD is my strength and song" (15:1-2), and then turns to speak to the LORD himself: "Your right hand, LORD, is glorious in power" (15:6). After it, "Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron" takes a tambourine, "and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances" (15:20). "Miriam answered them" with the song's opening words, now a call to sing: "Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea" (15:21).
Where it leads to Jesus
The song of Moses and the song of the Lamb
Exodus 15:1leads toRevelation 15:3
Israel "believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses" (14:31), and "Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the LORD" (15:1). In Revelation, John sees "those who overcame the beast" standing "on the sea of glass" (Revelation 15:2): "They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, ‘Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations’" (Revelation 15:3). Their song asks, "Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy" (Revelation 15:4). Revelation doesn't say which song of Moses it means. Moses also spoke a song near the end of his life (Deuteronomy 31:30), which says of God, "all his ways are just" (Deuteronomy 32:4). Many hear this song beside the sea in Revelation's song by the sea of glass; others hear Deuteronomy 32, or both.
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- A song about the LORD's hand, not Moses'
- A song that looks ahead
- Three days later
- The first line, sung again
- What Rahab heard
- 18 questions as you read
- 11 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
- Your notes, saved as you go
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The Hebrew word behind it
שִׁירshirsay SHEER
"Sing" (Brown-Driver-Briggs; Strong's: "to sing"). "Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the LORD" (15:1) is the first time the Hebrew Bible uses this verb. It comes twice in that verse ("sang", "I will sing") and once more in Miriam's call, "Sing to the LORD" (15:21). The word for "song" in 15:1 is the noun from the same root; Genesis has used it once, when Laban says he might have sent Jacob away "with songs" (Genesis 31:27).
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Exodus 15 Bible study questions
- 1Israel sang at the sea (15:1) and murmured three days later when the water was bitter (15:22-24). What makes it easy for you to go from praise to complaint so quickly?
- 2When the people murmured against Moses, he "cried to the LORD" (15:24-25). When complaints come at you, what do you usually do with them, and what would crying to the LORD look like?
- 3"The LORD is my strength and song. He has become my salvation" (15:2). If you wrote one line about something the LORD has done for you, what would it say?
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