Exodus Chapter 15 verse 5 Holy Bible
The deeps cover them: They went down into the depths like a stone.
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They were covered by the deep waters: like a stone they went down under the waves.
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The depths covered them; they sank to the bottom as a stone.
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The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
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The depths have covered them: they sunk to the bottom as a stone.
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The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.
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The depths do cover them; They went down into the depths as a stone.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - The depths have covered them. Rather "covered them." Into the bottom. Literally, "into the abyss." Like a stone. The warriors who fought in chariots commonly wore coats of mail, composed of bronze plates sewn on 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 who wore one must have sunk at once, without a struggle, like a stone or a lump of lead (verse 10).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) The depths have covered them.--Rather, covered them. The first stanza, or strophe, here terminates--the first historical review is completed. In it attention is concentrated on the one great fact of the deliverance by the destruction of the Egyptians in the Red Sea. At the close it is probable that Miriam, with her chorus of women, took up the refrain of Exodus 15:1, and slightly modifying it, sang, as recorded in Exodus 15:21, "Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath glorified himself gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea."
