Exodus 15:16-18

"Terror and dread falleth upon them; By the greatness of thine arm they are as still as a stone. Till thy people pass over, O Jehovah, Till the people pass over that thou hast purchased. Thou wilt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, The place, O Jehovah, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, The sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established. Jehovah shall reign forever and ever."

The use of mingled present and future tenses here confirms the understanding of the past tense in Exodus 15:13 as prophetic, because that which was spoken of there as past, appears here in Exodus 15:17 as future. The several references here to "the place" into which God would bring His people should be understood as referring to "the land of Canaan," and not to Mount Sinai, or the Jewish Temple, etc. A hindrance to this understanding is the rendition of "sanctuary" in Exodus 15:17. Some highly-respected expositors take that view (as did Keil), but we believe Huey was correct: "It should be understood as the entire Promised Land, That is the sanctuary, literally, `a separated place.'"[39] "The whole people of Israel could not be brought into a single mountain."[40] "We are not to understand the word `sanctuary' as a single place, but we are to see the whole land."[41]