{"id":1941,"date":"2022-09-23T23:28:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T04:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-exodus-1512\/"},"modified":"2022-09-23T23:28:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T04:28:26","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-exodus-1512","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-exodus-1512\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 15:12"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 12<\/strong>. The poet, before proceeding to the main theme of the paragraph ( <em> v.<\/em> 13 ff.), reverts for a moment to the thought of Jehovah&rsquo;s destruction of the foe.<\/p>\n<p><em> The earth swallowed them<\/em> ] In the Heb., the imperfect, attached  , expresses vividly how the result followed at once the stretching out of Jehovah&rsquo;s hand. Exactly so <em> v.<\/em> 14 &lsquo;the peoples heard, <em> they trembled<\/em> &rsquo;; <span class='bible'>Psa 77:16<\/span> &lsquo;the waters saw thee, <em> they were in pangs<\/em>.&rsquo; The &lsquo;earth&rsquo; must here be understood as inclusive of the sea. &lsquo;Swallowed,&rsquo; i.e. engulphed: cf. <span class='bible'>Num 16:32<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Psa 106:17<\/span> (of Dathan and Abiram).<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> Verse <span class='bible'>12<\/span>. <I><B>The earth swallowed them.<\/B><\/I>] It is very likely there was also an earthquake on this occasion, and that chasms were made in the bottom of the sea, by which many of them were swallowed up, though multitudes were overwhelmed by the waters, whose dead bodies were afterward thrown ashore.  The psalmist strongly intimates that there was an <I>earthquake<\/I> on this occasion: <I>The voice<\/I> <I>of thy thunder was in the heaven; the lightnings lightened the<\/I> <I>world; the<\/I> EARTH TREMBLED <I>and<\/I> SHOOK; <span class='bible'>Ps 77:18<\/span>.<\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Adam Clarke&#8217;s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> Either, <\/P> <P STYLE=\"margin-left: 0.85em;text-indent: -0.85em\"> 1. The globe, consisting of earth and water, which is here called earth; as it is called the deep, and the water s, <span class='bible'>Gen 1:2<\/span>. Or, <\/P> <P STYLE=\"margin-left: 0.85em;text-indent: -0.85em\"> 2. The earth is here put for the sea, the other part of the same globe; as the soul is put for the body, or the dead carcass, the other part of the man, <span class='bible'>Lev 19:28<\/span>; <span class='bible'>21:1<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Num 6:6<\/span>,<span class='bible'>9<\/span>,<span class='bible'>11<\/span>. Or, <\/P> <P STYLE=\"margin-left: 0.85em;text-indent: -0.85em\"> 3. The earth properly, either because many of them sunk into the mud at the bottom of the sea, and were buried in it; or because, after they were cast up upon the shore, they were buried by the Israelites in the earth. <\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Thou stretchedst out thy right hand<\/strong>,&#8230;. That is, exerted his power, and gave a display and proof of it; of which the right hand is an emblem:<\/p>\n<p><strong>the earth swallowed them<\/strong>; meaning Pharaoh and his host; for though they were drowned in the sea, that being a part of the terraqueous globe, they may be said to be swallowed in the earth; as Jonah, when in the depth of the sea, the earth and its bars are said to be about him, <span class='bible'>Jon 2:6<\/span> and besides, many of Pharaoh&#8217;s army might be swallowed up in the mud at the bottom of the sea: nor is it improbable that those that were cast upon the banks and sand, whom the Israelites stripped, might be afterwards swallowed up therein.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(12) The earth swallowed them.The sea, which actually swallowed them, was a part of the earth. Literalism might argue that the statement contravened former ones (<span class='bible'>Exo. 15:4-5<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Exo. 15:10<\/span>); but the fact is otherwise. If we only allow our common sense fair play, and permit sacred writers the same latitude as profane ones, we shall find wonderfully few discrepancies, or even difficulties, in the Biblical narrative.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong><em><span class='bible'>Exo 15:12<\/span><\/em><\/strong><strong>. <\/strong><strong><em>The earth swallowed them<\/em><\/strong><strong><\/strong> That is, says Ainsworth, the bottom of the sea, the abyss which the sea covers; as in <span class='bible'>Jon 2:6<\/span>.  <em>aretz, <\/em>rendered <em>earth, <\/em>sometimes signifies, <em>the lowest part of the earth: pars infima cujuscunque rei, the lowest part of any thing, <\/em>says Calasio: <em>the lowest part of the earth devoured them.<\/em> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> Reader! observe, if God be at enmity with sinners, all creation is at variance with them also. Read that scripture, <span class='bible'>Deu 28:23<\/span> , etc.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Hawker&#8217;s Poor Man&#8217;s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> Exo 15:12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.<\/p>\n<p> Ver. 12. <strong> The earth swallowed them,<\/strong> ] That is, the sea, which compasseth the earth about as a girdle: God having set the solid earth upon the liquid waters. See Jon 2:6 <span class='bible'>Psa 24:2<\/span> .<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>stretchedst: Exo 15:6 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: Psa 136:15 &#8211; for his mercy Zep 1:4 &#8211; stretch Luk 1:51 &#8211; showed<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Exo 15:12. The earth swallowed them up  Their dead bodies sunk into the sands, on which they were thrown, which sucked them in.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them. 12. The poet, before proceeding to the main theme of the paragraph ( v. 13 ff.), reverts for a moment to the thought of Jehovah&rsquo;s destruction of the foe. The earth swallowed them ] In the Heb., the imperfect, attached , expresses vividly how the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-exodus-1512\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 15:12&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}