Psalms 114:3

The sea. Compare Exodus 14:21.

Jordan. Compare Joshua 3:13.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The sea saw it - The word it is supplied, not very properly, by our translators. It would be more expressive to say, “The sea saw:” that is, The...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

CXIV. The marvels on the way from Egypt to Zion, the future sanctuary of Yahweh, and to Canaan as Israel's possession. A Passover hymn.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

3 The sea saw, and fled He does not enumerate in succession all the miracles which were wrought at that time, but briefly alludes to the sea...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The sea saw it , and fled: Jordan was driven back. The sea saw it, and fled - Mr. Addison has properly observed (see Spect. No. 461) that the author...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back. The sea saw (it), and fled - ( Exodus 14:21 .) Jordan was driven back - ( Joshua 3:13-1...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This has been called 'one of the finest lyrics in literature.' Probably it is a post-exilic psalm wherein, under the figure of the old exodus from Eg...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Saw it ] i.e. the presence of God. The allusion is to the dividing of the Red Sea and of Jordan, the opening and closing events of the deliverance...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Fled. — The Authorised Version weakens the effect by rendering “it was driven back.” (See Joshua 3:16 .) The scene presented is of the “descending...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 114:1-8 It is possible that in this psalm Israel, restored from Babylon, is looking back to the earlier Exodus, and shrilling with the grea...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Mighty God Uplifteth the Lowly Psalms 113:1-9 ; Psalms 114:1-8 We detect the song of Samuel's mother in the first of these psalms. She san...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This is the second psalm in the Hallel. The first set forth the might and mercy of Jehovah. This is pre-eminently a song of His might, and so the nam...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The Red Sea, and Jordan, both withdrew for Israel. Reader, recollect (for there is a great beauty in the reflection) that forty years intervened betw...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The sea saw it, and fled ,.... When the Word of the Lord appeared at it, as the Targum in the king's Bible; the Red sea, to which the Israelites cam...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

The sea saw [it], and fled: Jordan was driven back. Ver. 3. The sea saw it, and fled ] When God will deliver his people, and perform his promises...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The sea saw it, and fled Saw that God was present with and among them in an extraordinary manner, and therefore fled; for nothing could have been...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Deliverance of Israel Celebrated. 1 When Israel went out of Egypt...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Saw it, to wit, this glorious work of God in bringing his people out of Egypt.
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Date and Authorship unknown; ascribed to the three Hebrew children, Esther and Mordscai. BONDAGE AND DELIVERANCE ( Psalms 114:1 )...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 114:1-19 . When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language; Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his domi...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

This is another hallelujah psalm, praising the Lord for deliverance from Egypt for calling the Hebrews to holiness for dividing the sea, and driving...
The Biblical Illustrator

When Israel went out of Egypt. The workings of the Eternal will God has a will. He doeth all things after the “counsel of His own will.” The un...
The Biblical Illustrator

The sea saw it, and fled. The removal of obstacles I. Antagonisms are quelled. Wherever the Church has advanced-- 1. Sin and Satan have rece...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION A PSALM of reminiscence, designed to encourage the exiles on their return from Babylon, during their "day of small things" ( Zechar...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The God of Jacob the Deliverer out of Egypt. A majestic song celebrating the care of God for His people at the time of the exodus from Egypt, when...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The sea saw it and fled, the Red sea opening up before the people, Exodus 14:21 ; Jordan was driven back, Joshua 3:13-16 ;
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 14:21 ; Exodus 15:8 ; Habakkuk 3:15 ; Habakkuk 3:8 ; Habakkuk 3:9 ; Isaiah 63:12 ; Joshua 3:13-16 ; Psalms 10:1 ; Psalms 74:15 ; Psa...

³ The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 114:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 114:3