2 Samuel 22:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

The channels

Rebuking

Nostrils

2 Samuel 22:9

Psalm 74:1

Bible References

The channels

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord

swept the sea back by a strong east wind all night and turned the sea into dry land, so the waters were divided.

“At the blast of Your nostrils the waters were piled up,

The flowing waters stood up like a heap;

The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

Then the channels of water appeared,
And the foundations of the world were laid bare
At Your rebuke, O Lord,
At the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.

The sea looked and fled;
The Jordan turned back.

Rebuking

“At the blast of Your nostrils the waters were piled up,

The flowing waters stood up like a heap;

The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

And I said, ‘Thus far you shall come, but no farther;
And here shall your proud waves stop’?

Thus He rebuked the Red Sea and it dried up,
And He led them through the deeps, as through the wilderness.

He rebukes the sea and makes it dry;
He dries up all the rivers.

Bashan and Carmel wither;

The blossoms of Lebanon wither.

Did the Lord rage against the rivers,
Or was Your anger against the rivers,
Or was Your wrath against the sea,
That You rode on Your horses,
On Your chariots of salvation?

He *said to them, “Why are you afraid, you men of little faith?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it became perfectly calm.

Nostrils

“Smoke went up out of His nostrils,

Fire from His mouth devoured;

Coals were kindled by it.

A Maskil of Asaph.
O God, why have You rejected us forever?
Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?