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Selected Verse: Psalms 105:41 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Ps 105:41 |
King James |
He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river. |
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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
He opened the rock ... - See the notes at Psa 78:15. "They ran in the dry places like a river." Or, "a river." They flowed along in the desert - a river of waters. See the notes at Co1 10:4. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
River - They flowed in channels which God provided for them, and followed the Israelites in their march. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
He opened the rock, and the waters rushed out - See the note on Exo 17:6, to which I can now add, that a piece of this rock, broken off by the hand of my nephew, E. S. A. Clarke, in the course of the present year [1822,] now lies before me. It is fine granite; and so well distinguished as a granite, that the feldt-spar, the mica, and the quartz, of which granite is composed, appear very distinctly. It is worthy of remark, that, as granite is supposed, in the most accredited systems of geology, to be the very basis of the earth, the original rock, and all other substances to be superimpositions upon it, and as the decompositions of the feldt-spar produce pure vegetable earth, this rock should be used for this purpose, and should be an emblem of Jesus Christ, the Creator and Redeemer of the human race; and that it should signify him who is the basis of all things; who upholds all by the word of his power; without whom nothing is stable, nothing fruitful; from whom alone the water of life proceeds; and in whose name only is salvation. And that rock (in the wilderness) was Christ! and it is the only remaining emblem of him in creation. |
4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.