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Psalm 106:9
He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.
7Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
8Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power known.
9He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.
10He saved them from the hand of him who hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
11The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one of them left.
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The Red Sea becomes dry ground at God's rebuke, a startling picture of his authority over waters his people could never have crossed on their own.
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Nahum 1:4He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel languish. The flower of Lebanon languishes.Both passages describe God rebuking the sea and making it dry, showing the waters subject to his command.
Psalm 18:15Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.God's rebuke exposes what water had covered in both passages: the sea's depths in Psalm 106 and water channels in Psalm 18.
Psalm 78:13He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.Both psalms recount God opening the sea so his people could pass through it.
Isaiah 63:11–14Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he …Both look back to God bringing his people through the sea; Isaiah names Moses in that remembered rescue.
Isaiah 51:10Isn’t it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?Both describe the sea's depths becoming a way through when God dries up the waters.
Exodus 14:27–29Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. The LORD …Both recall God's action at the sea, with Psalm 106 describing passage through it and Exodus describing the Egyptians' overthrow.
Psalm 66:6He turned the sea into dry land. They went through the river on foot. There, we rejoiced in him.Both remember God turning the sea into dry ground, making a crossing possible for his people.
Nehemiah 9:11You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into …Both recount God's people passing through the sea on dry ground; Nehemiah also recounts the destruction of their pursuers.
Psalm 136:13–16to him who divided the Red Sea apart, for his loving kindness endures forever;Both name the Red Sea as the place of God's mighty act; Psalm 136 praises his enduring loving kindness.
Exodus 14:21–22Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters …Both describe God making the sea dry land; Exodus adds Moses' outstretched hand and the strong east wind.
Exodus 15:13“You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.Both describe God leading his people, with Exodus naming his loving kindness and strength as he guides them.
Isaiah 50:2Why, when I came, was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? Or have I no power to …Both connect God's rebuke with drying up the sea, displaying his power over its waters.
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Israel's rebellion at the sea did not exhaust God's mercy. He saved them for his name's sake, and the depths were subject to his command.
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