EXODUS –LESSON 24
LEARN: 2 Corinthians 4:6-7
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
READ: Exodus 15:1-21
1. Who is the writer of the first known song of the Hebrews? v 1
NOTE: This song, as being the first outburst of the poetical genius of the nation, and also connected with the very commencement of the national life, exerted the most important formative influence upon the later Hebrew poetic style, furnishing a pattern to the later poets, from which they rarely deviated. The “parallelism of the members,” which from the middle of the last century has been acknowledged to be the only real rhythmical law of Hebrew poetry, with its three forms of “synonymous, antithetic, and synthetic (or verbal) parallelism” is here found almost as distinctly marked as in any of the later compositions.
This song is divided primarily into two parts: the first (verses1-12) “retrospective,” celebrating the recent deliverance; the second (verses 13-18) “prospective,” describing the effects that would flow from the deliverance in future time. PULPIT COMMENTARY Genesis Exodus p 349
2. There are three divisions in the first half of the song, each beginning with the gloriousness of God. List the three phrases and the verses in which you find them.
3. What are the reasons for ascribing glory to God in each case?
4. What is the realization and determination of the nation as a result of who God is and what he has done? v 2
5. How does Moses describe God in verse 3? What name of God applies to this description? Isaiah 1:24; Psalm 59:5
6. Use Joshua 5:13-15 to explain how you know that the name “captain of the LORD’S armies” or “captain of the LORD’S hosts” refers to God. –give two specific reasons. Use Exodus 3:4-6; Revelation 22:8, 9 to justify your answer.
7. We learn from many passages, including Joshua 5, that the LORD of hosts is on occasion seen by men, yet what do we learn from the following Scriptures? John 1:18; Exodus 33:17-20
8. Use Colossians 1:12-19, along with John 10:30-33, to explain how we reconcile these differences.
9. Describe how the Egyptian army drowned. vv 5, 10
NOTE: The warriors who fought in chariots commonly wore coats of mail, composed of bronze plates sewn to a linen base, and overlapping one another. The coats covered the arms to the elbow, and descended nearly to the knee. They must have been exceedingly heavy: and the warrior wearing one must have sunk at once, without a struggle, like a stone or a lump of lead. PUPLIT COMMENTARY The Book of Exodus vol. 2 p 2
10. When Egypt came against the nation of Israel, in actuality, who were they coming against? v 7
11. Contrast the pride of the Egyptians with their miserable fall using verse 9 and 6, 7.
12. What are the two attributes of God described in verses 6, 7?
13. Using verse 8 describe what literally happened to the flowing waters of Red Sea.
14. From verse 10, what do we learn as to how the LORD returned the waters of the Red sea to their former place?
15. Why should the LORD (Yahweh) be exalted over all other gods? vv 11, 12
16. List three things that the LORD had done for his people Israel? v 13 What is the explanation for God’s work on behalf of Israel?
17. Where is God’s holy habitation which is mentioned in verse 13? v17
Use the following Scripture to further identify this place:
Deuteronomy 12:5, 11, 14
Psalm 78:54
Psalm 68:16
Psalm 87:1, 2
Isaiah 2:2-4; 4:2-6
18. What will be the result of all that the LORD has done on the behalf of Israel?vv 14-16
NOTE: “Palestina” This is the Greek form. The Hebrew is “Phelasheth” which is best translated as “Philistia.” The Philistine country was a strip of territory extending along the coast of the Mediterranean from a little below Gaza on the south, nearly to Mount Carmel on the north. It is curious that the Philistines are not mentioned under that name on any of the early Egyptian monuments. PULPIT COMMENTARY The Book of Exodus vol. 2 p 4
19. Use the following Scriptures to show the fulfillment of the prophecy of vv 14-16.
Numbers 22:1-6
Joshua 5:1
Deuteronomy 2:25; 11:25
20. When the LORD delivered Israel from the ownership of Egypt, he____________________________ them. v 16
Who is now the owner of Israel?
21. What is the final result of all that God has done for Israel? v v17, 18
22. What do we learn about Miriam from this and other passages of Scripture? v 20, Micah 6:4