Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 74:15

15 Thou didst cleave the [illegible: 1+ letters]ountain and the flood , thou driedst up mighty rivers .

(i. e.) Thou didst by cleaving the Rock, make a Fountain in it, and a flood or stream to flow from it, for the Refreshment of thy People, in those dry Deserts. The Phrase is like that Isa. 47. 2. Grind meal, (i. e.) By grinding the Corn, make Meal.

Either, 1. Iordan, which was then more mighty than ordinarily, as having overflowed all his Banks, and therefore may be called Rivers, because [illegible: 1+ letters]t was now Equivalent to two or three such Rivers; or it is onely an Enallage of the plural Number for the singular, whereof I have given many instances formerly. Or rather, 2. Both Iordan and the Red Sea; for the Sea it self; yea, a greater Sea than that, is called a River, Ionah 2. 3. for the Hebrew word is the same which is here used, though there it be rendred Floods. An[illegible: 1+ letters] the same Title is expresly given to the Sea, by [illegible: 1 word] and other antient Writers. To these the Antient Chaldee Interpreter, addeth the Rivers of Arnon and Iabbok, in or about which some extraordinary work was wrought, yea something which was like God's work at the Red Sea, as may seem by the Conjunction of these together, Numb. 21. 14.

Marginal references: Exod. 17. 5▪ Numb. 20. 1[illegible: 1+ letters] ▪ Psal. 105. 41. Isa. 4[illegible: 1+ letters]. 21.; Josh. 3. 13.; Heb. Rivers of strength.