Exodus 15:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And when they came to Marah,b they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. ”

Exodus 15:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 wh...
Exodus 15:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bitter Waters made Sweet ( Exodus 15:22-25 a J, Exodus 15:25 b E, Exodus 15:26 Rje, Exodus 15:27 J). The wilderness of Shur stretched E. of the present Suez Canal. No very plausible site for...
Exodus 15:23 - 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 (...
Exodus 15:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the 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. Marah - So called from the bitter waters found there. Dr....
Exodus 15:23 - 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. Sh...
Exodus 15:23 - 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 t...
Exodus 15:23 - 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...
Exodus 15:23 - 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...
Exodus 15:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Marah's Waters Sweetened; Elim's Rest Exodus 15:19-27 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 pal...
Exodus 15:23 - 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...
Exodus 15:23 - 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 .
Exodus 15:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 wat...
Exodus 15:23 - 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, bu...
Exodus 15:23 - L. 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 th...
Exodus 15:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Waters of Marah. B. C. 1491. 22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they...
Exodus 15:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Exodus 15:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Beginning of the Long March: Water Shortage Followed By Provision ( Exodus 15:22-27 ). a Moses leads Israel forward into the wilderness of Shur ( Exodus 15:22 a). b They went three days i...
Exodus 15:23 - 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 valle...
Exodus 15:23 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Exodus 15:23-27 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 th...
Exodus 15:23 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 thr...
Exodus 15:23 - 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 ; Ezra...
Exodus 15:23 - 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 direct...
Exodus 15:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 t...
Exodus 15:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

In the Wilderness of Shur
Exodus 15:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Marah Numbers 33:8 marah. i.e. bitterness Ruth 1:20
Exodus 15:23 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Faith as Exemplified in Moses Selections from Exodus 3:1-22 ; Exodus 6:1-30 ; Exodus 7:1-25 ; Exodus 8:1-32 ; Exodus 14:1-31 ; Exodus 15:1-27 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Children of Israe...
Exodus 15:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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

Exodus 15:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Exodus 15:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 15:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Exodus 15:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Exodus 15:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Exodus 15:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Exodus 15:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 15:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Exodus 15:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Exodus 15:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Exodus 15:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Exodus 15:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Exodus 15:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Exodus 15:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 15:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Exodus 15:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Exodus 15:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 15:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Exodus 15:23 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Exodus 15:23 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Exodus 15:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 15:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Exodus 15:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Exodus 15:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Exodus 15:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 15:23 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Exodus 15:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes