Don’t Forget Your Tambourine

Don’t Forget Your Tambourine – Exodus 15

• THE ISRAELITES SING PRAISES TO THE LORD (15:1-21):

  • Moses and the people of Israel worshipped God in song for His victory over the Egyptians.

  • I’ve included a few excerpts from their song below:

  • “The Lord is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation.”

  • “Pharaoh’s chariots and his host he cast into the sea, and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea. The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone.”

  • “Your right hand, O LORD, glorious in power, your right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy. In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries.”

  • “Who is like you, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?”

  • “You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed… You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain, the place, O LORD, which you have made for your abode, the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.

  • “The LORD will reign forever and ever.”

  • We are also told Miriam, Moses’ sister, took a tambourine and sang praises to God with the all the women of Israel.

  • Don’t forget your tambourine!

• THE BITTER WATER OF MARAH (15:22-27):

  • The Israelites travelled from the Red Sea into the wilderness of Shur.

  • For three days they were unsuccessful at finding water.

  • They came to a place called Marah, but the water was bitter and undrinkable, so they started grumbling against Moses.

  • God had Moses cast a log into the water to make it sweet.

  • In Marah, God established a statue with the Hebrews that if they would honor Him and heed His instructions, He would not afflict them with the diseases that afflicted the Egyptians.

  • God led the Israelites from Marah to Elim where there were 12 springs of water.