# Psalm 114 📖: When Israel Left Egypt [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[-Psalm Overview]] | [[Psalm 113]] | [[Psalm 115]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] > [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]] > [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] > [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]] > [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] > [[#💬 Discussion Questions]] > [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] > [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] > [[#📂 Internal Notes]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) [[#Verse 01.]] When Israel left Egypt, when the family of Jacob left a foreign nation behind, [[#Verse 02.]] Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his kingdom. [[#Verse 03.]] The sea looked and fled; the Jordan River turned back. [[#Verse 04.]] The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. [[#Verse 05.]] Why do you flee, O sea? Why do you turn back, O Jordan River? [[#Verse 06.]] Why do you skip like rams, O mountains, like lambs, O hills? [[#Verse 07.]] Tremble, O earth, before the Lord— before the God of Jacob, [[#Verse 08.]] who turned a rock into a pool of water, a hard rock into springs of water. ## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights 1. Psalm 114 is part of the Egyptian Hallel (Psalms 113 to 118), sung at Passover. 2. It is only eight verses long, yet it covers the exodus, the Red Sea, the Jordan crossing, Sinai, and water from the rock. 3. God is not named until 114:7, which builds suspense about who made the sea flee. 4. The sea fleeing (114:3) recalls the crossing of the Red Sea (Exodus 14). 5. The Jordan turning back (114:3) recalls the crossing under Joshua (Joshua 3:14-17). 6. Mountains skipping like rams (114:4) may picture the earthquake at Mount Sinai (Exodus 19:18). 7. Egypt is called a people of a foreign language (114:1), a reminder that Israel lived as strangers there. 8. Water from the rock (114:8) recalls both Exodus 17:6 and Numbers 20:11. 9. The Greek Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate combine Psalms 114 and 115 into one psalm. 10. The questions in 114:5-6 are a poetic taunt asking the sea and mountains why they ran. ## 🧠 Chapter Summary > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter Christ is the Rock who gives living water to His people. God turned the rock into a pool of water (114:8), and Paul says that rock was Christ (1 Corinthians 10:4). ## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 💬 Discussion Questions 1. The psalm describes the exodus as a moment when even the sea and mountains responded to God (114:3-4). What does creation's response teach us about God's power? 2. Judah became God's sanctuary and Israel His dominion (114:2). What does it mean for God's people to be His dwelling place today? 3. God turned hard rock into springs of water (114:8). Where do you need God to bring life out of something hard? ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - 📖 verses 1-2: When Israel left Egypt, Judah became God's sanctuary. - 📖 verses 3-4: The sea fled, the Jordan turned back, and the mountains skipped like rams. - 📖 verses 7-8: Tremble before the Lord, who turns rock into pools of water. ## 🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference - 🔗 [[Exodus 14#Verse 21.|Exodus 14:21-22]] - Israel crosses the sea on dry ground. - 🔗 [[Joshua 03#Verse 14.|Joshua 3:14-17]] - The Jordan stops flowing. - 🔗 [[Exodus 17#Verse 06.|Exodus 17:6]] - Water from the rock at Horeb. - 🔗 [[1 Corinthians 10#Verse 01.|1 Corinthians 10:1-4]] - The rock was Christ. - 🔗 [[John 07#Verse 37.|John 7:37-38]] - Rivers of living water. ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection 📝 SOAP: [[Psalm 114- SOAP|A Continual Reminder]] ## 📂 Internal Notes