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Exodus 15:11Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord. They said, “I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously, the horse and its rider he has thrown into the sea.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 15:3Exod 15:21Ps 106:12Isa 12:1-6Isa 51:10-11Ps 107:8Exod 18:11Ps 107:21-222 Sam 22:1-51Judg 5:1-31
Exodus 15:22The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 12:2Ps 118:14Ps 18:46Ps 59:17Isa 25:1Ps 140:7Ps 18:1-2Ps 145:1Ps 99:9Isa 45:17
Exodus 15:33The Lord is a warrior — the Lord is his name.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 24:8Exod 14:14Rev 19:11-21Isa 42:8Exod 6:6-8Ps 83:18Ps 45:3Exod 3:15Exod 3:13Exod 6:2-3
Exodus 15:44The chariots of Pharaoh and his army he has thrown into the sea, and his chosen officers were drowned in the Red Sea.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 14:13-28Exod 14:6-7
Exodus 15:55The depths have covered them; they went down to the bottom like a stone.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 9:11Exod 14:28Exod 15:10Jer 51:63-64Ezek 27:34Jonah 2:2Matt 18:6Mic 7:19Rev 18:21
Exodus 15:66Your right hand, O Lord, was majestic in power; your right hand, O Lord, shattered the enemy.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 118:15-16Isa 51:91 Chr 29:11-12Ps 2:9Ps 60:5Rev 2:27Isa 52:10Matt 6:13Exod 15:11Jer 13:14
Exodus 15:77In the abundance of your majesty you have overthrown those who rise up against you. You sent forth your wrath; it consumed them like stubble.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 5:24Mal 4:1Isa 47:14Deut 33:26Isa 37:29Isa 5:16Ps 148:13Ps 83:13Acts 9:4Exod 9:16
Exodus 15:88By the blast of your nostrils the waters were piled up, the flowing water stood upright like a heap, and the deep waters were solidified in the heart of the sea.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 4:9Ps 78:13Exod 14:21-222 Sam 22:162 Thess 2:8Hab 3:10Isa 11:4Isa 37:7
Exodus 15:99The enemy said, ‘I will chase, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand will destroy them.’Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Judg 5:30Exod 14:5Isa 53:12Luke 11:22Gen 49:27Hab 3:14Isa 36:201 Kgs 19:21 Kgs 20:10Exod 14:8-9
Exodus 15:1010But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 11:4Exod 14:21Exod 15:5Isa 11:15Matt 8:27Amos 4:13Exod 14:27-28Gen 8:1Jer 10:13Ps 135:7
Exodus 15:1111Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you—majestic in holiness, fearful in praises, working wonders?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 8:23Ps 89:5-81 Sam 2:22 Sam 7:22Rev 4:8Isa 6:3Jer 10:6-7Deut 3:24Ps 86:8Ps 77:14
Exodus 15:1212You stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 15:6
Exodus 15:1313By your loyal love you will lead the people whom you have redeemed; you will guide them by your strength to your holy dwelling place.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 77:201 Pet 1:5Ps 106:9Ps 77:14-15Ps 78:52-54Isa 63:12-13Jer 2:6Eph 2:4Gen 19:16Ps 80:1
Exodus 15:1414The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will seize the inhabitants of Philistia.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 2:25Josh 2:9-10Ps 48:6Isa 14:31Josh 9:24Num 14:14Deut 2:4-5Isa 14:29Num 22:5
Exodus 15:1515Then the chiefs of Edom will be terrified, trembling will seize the leaders of Moab, and the inhabitants of Canaan will shake.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 5:1Josh 2:11Josh 2:9Deut 2:4Gen 36:40Ps 68:21 Chr 1:51-541 Sam 14:162 Sam 17:10Deut 20:8
Exodus 15:1616Fear and dread will fall on them; by the greatness of your arm they will be as still as stone until your people pass by, O Lord, until the people whom you have bought pass by.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 74:2Deut 2:251 Sam 25:37Josh 2:91 Pet 2:92 Pet 2:1Deut 11:25Exod 11:7Isa 43:1-3Isa 51:10
Exodus 15:1717You will bring them in and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, in the place you made for your residence, O Lord, the sanctuary, O Lord, that your hands have established.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 44:2Ps 80:8Ps 78:54-55Jer 32:41Ps 78:68-69Isa 5:1-4Jer 2:21Jer 31:23Ps 132:13-14
Exodus 15:1818The Lord will reign forever and ever!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 10:16Ps 29:10Dan 2:44Isa 57:15Ps 146:10Rev 11:15-17Dan 4:3Dan 7:14Dan 7:27Matt 6:13
Exodus 15:1919For the horses of Pharaoh came with his chariots and his footmen into the sea, and the Lord brought back the waters of the sea on them, but the Israelites walked on dry land in the middle of the sea.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 14:28-29Heb 11:29Exod 14:22-23Prov 21:31
Exodus 15:2020Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a hand drum in her hand, and all the women went out after her with hand drums and with dances.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 150:41 Sam 18:6Ps 149:3Ps 68:25Judg 11:34Judg 4:4Mic 6:4Num 26:59Ps 81:22 Kgs 22:14
Exodus 15:2121Miriam sang in response to them, “Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and its rider he has thrown into the sea.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 15:1Rev 15:3Rev 7:10-12Rev 5:9Rev 19:1-61 Sam 18:72 Chr 5:13Isa 5:1-30Judg 5:3Ps 134:1-3
Exodus 15:2222Then Moses led Israel to journey away from the Red Sea. They went out to the wilderness of Shur, walked for three days into the wilderness, and found no water.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 16:71 Sam 15:7Exod 3:18Gen 25:18
Exodus 15:2323Then they came to Marah, but they were not able to drink the waters of Marah, because they were bitter. (That is why its name was Marah.)Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 33:8Ruth 1:20
Exodus 15:2424So the people murmured against Moses, saying, “What can we drink?”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 16:2Exod 14:11Num 20:2-5Num 14:1-4Ps 78:19-20Exod 17:3-4Num 11:1-61 Cor 10:10Exod 16:8-9Jude 1:16
Exodus 15:2525He cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree. When Moses threw it into the water, the water became safe to drink. There the Lord made for them a binding ordinance, and there he tested them.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 8:2Ps 66:10Judg 3:1Judg 2:22Judg 3:42 Kgs 2:21Deut 8:16Exod 16:41 Pet 1:6-71 Cor 1:18
Exodus 15:2626He said, “If you will diligently obey the Lord your God, and do what is right in his sight, and pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, then all the diseases that I brought on the Egyptians I will not bring on you, for I, the Lord, am your healer.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 103:3Deut 7:15Exod 23:25Ps 41:3-4Ps 147:3Jer 33:6Deut 28:1-15Hos 6:1Lev 26:13Jas 5:11-16
Exodus 15:2727Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the water.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 22:2Rev 7:17Num 33:9Isa 12:3Ezek 47:12
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