Exodus 15:3
Hebrew Bible
1 Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord. They said, “I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously, the horse and its rider he has thrown into the sea. 2 The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him. 3 The Lord is a man of war10— the Lord is his name. 4 The chariots of Pharaoh and his army he has thrown into the sea, and his chosen officers were drowned in the Red Sea.
Date: 5th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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Sirach 35:22
Ben Sira, Ecclesiasticus
Deuterocanon
21 The prayer of the humble pierces the clouds, and it will not rest until it reaches its goal; it will not desist until the Most High responds 22 and does justice for the righteous, and executes judgment. Indeed, the Lord will not delay, and like a warrior will not be patient until he crushes the loins of the unmerciful 23 and repays vengeance on the nations; until he destroys the multitude of the insolent, and breaks the scepters of the unrighteous;
Date: 195-175 B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... One other aspect of Sirach 35:22–36:22 commends my interpretation of the function of the prayer in the book of Sirach as a whole: the Divine Warrior motif. Randal Argall has analyzed the motif of the Divine Warrior in Sirach 35:22–26 and in the prayer for deliverance and has shown how many of the motif’s traditional elements are present in these passages. Numerous of these elements have already been implicit in my treatment of these texts above. Most obviously, Ben Sira describes God “as a warrior” (Sirach 35.22) who will fight against the nations (Sirach 35:22–24; 36:1–12). After his successful defeat of the nations, YHWH will rescue his people (Sirach 35:25–6; 36:1, 13–19). To be sure, certain traditional elements of the Divine Warrior motif are absent. For example, nowhere does Ben Sira suggest that the Divine Warrior “sets out” or “goes down” to battle ..."
Goering, Greg Schmidt
Wisdom’s Root Revealed: Ben Sira and the Election of Israel
(p. 228) Brill, 2009
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