Red Sea

Acts

The Speech That Got Him Killed

The Red Sea is invoked as the ultimate symbol of witnessed divine power — the people who had personally seen God split the sea still chose a golden calf, underscoring the depth of human resistance to trusting God.

Hebrews

Don't Miss What's Right in Front of You

The Red Sea crossing is cited as the most dramatic of God's demonstrated faithfulness — the miracle the wilderness generation witnessed with their own eyes yet still couldn't sustain trust from.

Revelation

The Calm Before the Final Storm

The Red Sea is the location of Israel's original deliverance song under Moses — invoked here as the template for the heavenly song the overcomers now sing after an even greater deliverance.

Exodus

When a New King Forgot

The Red Sea is named here as one of the iconic future events this chapter foreshadows — the oppression and infanticide described in Exodus 1 are what ultimately lead to the miraculous parting yet to come.

Exodus

The Night the Sea Moved

The Red Sea is the body of water Moses stretches his hand over — driven back by a powerful east wind all night, its seabed exposed as dry ground with walls of water standing on either side.

Exodus

Water from a Rock and Hands That Wouldn't Quit

The Red Sea crossing is invoked here as the crowning miracle Israel had already experienced, one of the dramatic acts of deliverance that makes their immediate panic over water feel especially shortsighted.

Exodus

The Best Advice Moses Ever Got

The Red Sea is invoked here as the defining miracle of the Exodus, one of the awe-inspiring events Jethro will soon hear about and that prompt his declaration of God's supremacy.

Exodus

The Mountain That Shook

The Red Sea crossing is recalled here as the defining miracle of the exodus, one of several supernatural acts God uses to frame his covenant proposal — 'you saw what I did' — at Sinai.

Exodus

When God Spoke From the Mountain

The Red Sea is cited as one of the defining miracles in Moses's journey leading Israel to Sinai, representing the dramatic divine intervention that established God's credibility before he speaks his commands.

Exodus

What It Costs to Come Close

The Red Sea is cited here as one of God's great acts of deliverance — but the closing verses reframe even that miracle as a means to an end, subordinate to God's ultimate goal of dwelling among Israel.

Exodus

The Worst Party in History

The Red Sea crossing is invoked here as the most dramatic proof of God's power these people had personally witnessed — making their idol worship just weeks later all the more staggering.

Exodus

The Day God Moved In

The Red Sea crossing is listed among the defining moments leading to this climax — one of the miraculous events that proved God was leading his people toward this moment of permanent presence.

Numbers

When Everyone Hit Their Breaking Point

The Red Sea is cited as a landmark of Moses' greatest triumphs, contrasting sharply with his current state of collapse — the man who parted the sea is now begging God to end his life.

Numbers

The Generation That Walked Away

The Red Sea is recalled here as the defining miracle of the Exodus — the text invokes it to highlight the depth of the people's amnesia, that those who walked through parted waters are now ready to retreat.

Deuteronomy

The Speech Before the Crossing

The Red Sea crossing is invoked here as the definitive proof of God's rescue — Moses uses it to contrast the people's accusation of divine hatred with the most dramatic act of deliverance in Israel's entire history.

Deuteronomy

The Land They Won and the Land He Couldn't Enter

The Red Sea is cited as evidence of Moses's extraordinary history with God — one of the most miraculous moments in all of Scripture, performed through Moses's hands, yet not enough to override the consequence at Meribah.

Deuteronomy

Chosen Before You Were Ready

The Red Sea crossing is recalled here as Exhibit A in Moses's argument against fear — Israel walked through it on dry ground and watched pursuing armies drown, making it the definitive proof that their God fights on their behalf.

Deuteronomy

The Handoff No One Was Ready For

The Red Sea is recalled as the defining miracle of Israel's deliverance — the moment that established Moses' credentials as a leader through whom God did the impossible.

Deuteronomy

The Song Before Goodbye

The Red Sea is referenced here as one of the defining miracles of Moses' career, reminding readers of the extraordinary acts that frame his now-ending ministry.

Deuteronomy

Last Words from the Mountain

The Red Sea is invoked here as one of the landmark miracles defining Moses' life — the moment God split the waters, validating Moses' leadership before the whole nation.

Deuteronomy

The View from the Mountaintop

The Red Sea is referenced here as the defining miracle that demonstrates Moses' unmatched authority — splitting its waters stands as the supreme example of the signs and wonders no later prophet would replicate.

Joshua

New Leader, Same Promise

The Red Sea is invoked as the site of Israel's most dramatic deliverance under Moses, underscoring just how extraordinary the leader Joshua is being asked to replace truly was.

Joshua

Twelve Stones and a Story Worth Telling

The Red Sea crossing is invoked here by Joshua as a precedent — he connects the Jordan miracle to the exodus generation's experience, showing the same God acting with the same power across generations.

Joshua

The Strangest Battle Plan Ever Given

The Red Sea crossing is cited here as the miracle that preceded Israel's reputation — the reason Jericho's inhabitants already knew who they were dealing with before a single soldier arrived.

Judges

The Cycle No One Could Break

The Red Sea crossing is invoked here as the defining moment of divine rescue that the parent generation saw with their own eyes — yet even this most dramatic of miracles failed to be transmitted to the next generation.

Judges

The Gods You Chose

The Red Sea is invoked by God as the ultimate proof of his track record — the defining miracle of Israel's rescue history, used to expose how hollow their chosen gods truly are.

1 Samuel

The Day the Glory Left

The Red Sea is evoked as the defining miracle of Israel's history — the Ark's capture makes that past glory feel achingly distant, as the nation that once walked through split waters now watches God's throne carried away by enemies.

2 Samuel

The Promise That Changed Everything

The Red Sea is invoked by David as the defining proof of God's power and commitment to Israel — the miracle of parting those waters is the precedent that gives David confidence God can and will keep his dynastic promise.

1 Kings

The Warning Behind the Blessing

God appears to Solomon a second time — not with congratulations, but with a condition that reframes everything. The Temple, the dynasty, the whole kingdom hinged on faithfulness, and the rest of the chapter reveals a king whose power was peaking while the cracks were already forming.

Psalms

Come and See, Come and Hear

The Red Sea crossing is the historical anchor the psalmist points to as evidence — the moment God turned water into a walkable road, establishing a track record that makes his "come and see" invitation credible.

Psalms

The Oldest Prayer in the Book

The Red Sea is cited as shorthand for Moses's defining moment — establishing his credentials as someone who witnessed God's power firsthand and therefore has earned the authority to write about God's eternal nature.

Psalms

When Nature Ran

The Red Sea is cited as evidence that the psalm's nature imagery is not metaphor — the sea that "looked and ran" in the poem is the actual body of water that split historically during the Exodus.

Psalms

The Refrain That Won't Let Go

The Red Sea is the dramatic centerpiece of this section — the place where God split the waters for Israel to pass through, then closed them over Pharaoh's army, counted here as an act of faithful love.

Isaiah

Called by Name

The Red Sea is referenced here as the site of Israel's most dramatic rescue — the path through the waters that God made when no path should have existed — cited as evidence of His power over empires.

Isaiah

The God Who Doesn't Forget Where You Came From

The Red Sea is the anchor of the people's desperate prayer — they invoke the moment God split it and made a dry highway for the redeemed as evidence that he can and should do it again for them now.

Haggai

The Promise That Outlasts the Rubble

The Red Sea is invoked as the defining proof of God's power — the argument being that the same God who split those waters is standing on this construction site, which reframes how ordinary the current project looks.