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anything memorable that Miriam did but this. But those are to be reckoned great blessings to a people who assist them, and go before them, in praising God.
21 And Miriam answered them,
Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
The Bitter Water at Marah
22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into
the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
It should seem, it was with some difficulty that Moses prevailed with Israel to leave that triumphant shore on which they sang the foregoing song. They were so taken up with the sight, or with the song, or with the spoiling of the dead bodies, that they cared not to go forward, but Moses with much ado brought them from the Red Sea into a wilderness. The pleasures of our way to Canaan must not retard our progress, but quicken it, though we have a wilderness before us. Now here we are told,
That in the wilderness of Shur they had no water, Ex 15:22. This was a sore trial to the young travellers, and a diminution to their joy; thus God would train them up to difficulties. David, in a dry and thirsty land where no water is, reaches forth towards God, Ps 63:1.
23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters
of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah [bitterness].
24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we
drink?
25 And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord showed him a tree,
which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet.