Marah’s Waters Sweetened And Elim’s Rest. Then they came to Marah, but they could not drink its waters because they were bitter; therefore it was named Marah (bitter). Exo 15:23
Then the children of Israel came to Elim where there were twelve springs of water and seventy date palms, and they camped there beside the waters. Exo 15:27
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
The Nation Israel Delivered and Organized
II. FROM EGYPT TO SINAI, Exodus 12:37-18:27
4. Marah, Elim and the Manna, Exodus 15:20-16:36
32. What was to be learned from the experiences at Marah and Elim?
THE SONG OF MOSES
For the horses of Pharaoh went with his war-chariots and his charioteers into the sea, and the LORD brought back the waters of the sea on them, but the sons of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea.
Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron [and Moses], took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her with timbrels and dancing. [Mic_6:4]
Miriam answered them, “Sing to the LORD, for He has triumphed gloriously and is highly exalted; The horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea.”
BITTER WATER MADE SWEET
Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went into the Wilderness of Shur; they went [a distance of] three days (about thirty-three miles) in the wilderness and found no water.
Then they came to Marah, but they could not drink its waters because they were bitter; therefore it was named Marah (bitter).
The people [grew discontented and] grumbled at Moses, saying, “What are we going to drink?”
Then he cried to the LORD [for help], and the LORD showed him a tree, [a branch of] which he threw into the waters, and the waters became sweet. There the LORD made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there He tested them,
saying, “If you will diligently listen and pay attention to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His sight, and listen to His commandments, and keep [foremost in your thoughts and actively obey] all His precepts and statutes, then I will not put on you any of the diseases which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am the LORD who heals you.”
Then the children of Israel came to Elim where there were twelve springs of water and seventy date palms, and they camped there beside the waters.
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Exodus 15:19-27
MARAH’S WATERS SWEETENED; ELIM’S REST
How rapid are the transitions of life! Today the song of victory, tomorrow the bitter wells of Marah, and the next the shadow of Elim’s palms! One moment we are singing the joyous song of victory on the shores of the Red Sea, strewn with the bodies of foes, which we believe that we have seen for the last time; and then, by a sudden change, we find ourselves standing beside Marah-waters of pain and disappointment. We, however, learn more of God at Marah than at Elim; because He reveals to us the tree of the Cross. It was there that our Lord gave up His will absolutely to the Father. See Heb_10:5-7. “He bare our sins in His own body on the tree.” Now, for us, there is but one way to bear sorrow and to extract its sweetness. We must yield our will to God; we must accept what He permits; we must do what He bids. So we come to find that dis-appointments are His appointments.
Comments by
WILLIAM MACDONALD
Believers Bible Commentary
On
Exodus 15:22-27
VIII. THE JOURNEY TO SINAI (15:22–18:27)
A. The Wilderness of Shur (15:22-27)
Verse 22 begins the record of the journey from the Red Sea to Mount Sinai. Each step is filled with spiritual lessons for believers of every age. Marah, which means bitter, for instance, speaks of the bitter experiences of life. The tree suggests the cross of Calvary, which transmutes the bitter things of life into sweetness. At Marah the Lord revealed Himself as “the LORD who heals you” (YHWH R–phekã). He promised to deliver Israel from the diseases that afflicted the Egyptians. Elim, with its twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees, suggests the rest and refreshment which are ours after we have been to the cross.
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