Parallel Verses English Standard Version Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there by the water. King James Bible And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters. American Standard Version And they came to Elim, where were twelve springs of water, and threescore and ten palm-trees: and they encamped there by the waters. Douay-Rheims Bible And the children of Israel came into Elim, where there were twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped by the waters. English Revised Version And they came to Elim, where were twelve springs of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters. Webster's Bible Translation And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and seventy palm-trees: and they encamped there by the waters. Exodus 15:27 Parallel Commentary Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old TestamentIn the words "Pharaoh's horse, with his chariots and horsemen," Pharaoh, riding upon his horse as the leader of the army, is placed at the head of the enemies destroyed by Jehovah. In Exodus 15:20, Miriam is called "the prophetess," not ob poeticam et musicam facultatem (Ros.), but because of her prophetic gift, which may serve to explain her subsequent opposition to Moses (Numbers 11:1, Numbers 11:6); and "the sister of Aaron," though she was Moses' sister as well, and had been his deliverer in his infancy, not "because Aaron had his own independent spiritual standing by the side of Moses" (Baumg.), but to point out the position which she was afterwards to occupy in the congregation of Israel, namely, as ranking, not with Moses, but with Aaron, and like him subordinate to Moses, who had been placed at the head of Israel as the mediator of the Old Covenant, and as such was Aaron's god (Exodus 4:16, Kurtz). As prophetess and sister of Aaron she led the chorus of women, who replied to the male chorus with timbrels and dancing, and by taking up the first strophe of the song, and in this way took part in the festival; a custom that was kept up in after times in the celebration of victories (Judges 11:34; 1 Samuel 18:6-7; 1 Samuel 21:12; 1 Samuel 29:5), possibly in imitation of an Egyptian model (see my Archologie, 137, note 8). Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Elim. This was on the northern skirts of the desert of Sin, and, according to Dr. Shaw, two leagues from Tor, and near 30 from Corondel, which he conjectures to be Marah, where there is a small rill, which is brackish. He found but nine of the wells, the other three being filled up with sand; but the 70 palm trees had increased into more than 2000 Isaiah 12:3 Therefore with joy shall you draw water out of the wells of salvation. Cross References Numbers 33:9 And they set out from Marah and came to Elim; at Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there. Exodus 16:1 They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt. Jump to Previous Camped Date Elim Encamp Encamped Fountains Palm Palms Palm-Trees Score Seventy Springs Ten Tents Three Threescore Trees Twelve Water Waters WellsJump to Next Camped Date Elim Encamp Encamped Fountains Palm Palms Palm-Trees Score Seventy Springs Ten Tents Three Threescore Trees Twelve Water Waters WellsLinks Exodus 15:27 NIVExodus 15:27 NLT Exodus 15:27 ESV Exodus 15:27 NASB Exodus 15:27 KJV Exodus 15:27 Bible Apps Exodus 15:27 Biblia Paralela Exodus 15:27 Chinese Bible Exodus 15:27 French Bible Exodus 15:27 German Bible Bible Hub ESV Text Edition: 2016. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. |
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