Exodus 14:27

_AND THE EGYPTIANS PURSUED, AND WENT IN AFTER THEM TO THE MIDST OF THE SEA, EVEN ALL PHARAOH'S HORSES, HIS CHARIOTS, AND HIS HORSEMEN._ THE EGYPTIANS PURSUED. From the darkness caused by the intercepting cloud, it is probable that they were not aware on what ground they were driving: they heard the sound of the fugitives before them, and they pushed on with the fury of the avengers of blood, without dreaming that they were on the bared bed of the sea. Verse 24. IN THE MORNING WATCH - i:e., at sunrise. THE LORD LOOKED ... THROUGH ... CLOUD, AND TROUBLED THE HOST OF THE EGYPTIANS. We suppose the fact to have been, that the side of the pillar of cloud toward the Egyptians was suddenly, and for a few moments, illuminated with a blaze of light, which, coming as it were in a refulgent flash upon the dense darkness which had preceded, so frightened the horses of the pursuers that they rushed...

21-31 The dividing the Red sea was the terror of the Canaanites, Joshua 2:9; the praise and triumph of the Israelites, Psalms 114:3; Psalms 106:9; Psalms 136:13. It was a type of baptism, 1 Corinthians 10:1; 1 Corinthians 10:2. Israel's passage through it was typical of the conversion of souls, Isaiah 11:15; and the Egyptians being drowned in it was typical of the final rui...

OVERTHREW THE EGYPTIANS - Better as in the margin, The Lord shook them off, hurled them from their chariots into the sea....

EXPOSITION THE DESTRUCTION OF THE EGYPTIANS. As the rearguard of the Israelite host having entered the tract from which the waters had retired, proceeded along it, and left the western end of the isthmus vacant, the pillar of the cloud seems to have followed it up and withdrawn with it. The Egyptians immediately advanced. Notwithstanding the preternatural darkness, they had become aware, perhaps by means of their ears, of the movement that was taking place, and with early dawn they were under arms and pressing on the line of the Israelite retreat. They found the channel still dry, and hastily entering it with their chariot force, they hurried forward in pursuit. The first check which they received was wholly supernatural. "The Lord looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians" ...

AND MOSES STRETCHED FORTH HIS HAND OVER THE SEA,.... Or towards it, as he was ordered, the rod being in his hand, as before observed: AND THE SEA RETURNED TO HIS STRENGTH WHEN THE MORNING APPEARED; being no longer detained by a superior power, contrary to the nature of it, to stand still as an heap, and firm as a wall, its waves came down and rolled with their usual force and strength, or it returned to its usual course: AT THE APPEARANCE OF THE MORNING IN ITS STRENGTH; when the morning looked forth in its first light and brightness, when it was broad day: AND THE EGYPTIANS FLED AGAINST IT; against the waves that came rolling down upon them: or "at meeting it" u, for as they turned their backs on the Israelites and fled, the waters of the sea met them, as well as fell on each side of them, or rather over them, and followed after them, and closed and shut them up on all sides; so that...

Exodus 14:1 _And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth between Migdol and sea, over against Baalzephon: before it ye shall encamp by the sea_ It might have been sufficient for the pillar of cloud to move that way; but it was really such an extraordinary thing for the Lord to lead the people right down to the sea that he gave a special command as well as the movement of the cloud. That Moses himself might not be staggered by what would seem to him to be such strange guidance the Lord tells him what to say to the people and then gives him this explanation: Exodus 14:3. For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in. And I will harden Pharaoh's he

CHAPTER 14 THE PURSUIT OF THE ENEMY AND REDEMPTION BY POWER _ 1. The coming of Pharaoh announced (Exodus 14:1)_ 2. The pursuit and Israel troubled (Exodus 14:5) 3. Moses speaks to the people (Exodus 14:13) 4. The Lord speaks to Moses (Exodus 14:15) 5. The passages through the Red Sea (Exodus 14:19) 6. The Egyptians overthrown (Exodus 14:23) 7. The great work accomplished ...

EXODUS 14. (Exodus 14:1 P, Exodus 14:5 f. J, Exodus 14:7 a(b) E, Exodus 14:8 P Exodus 14:9 a E, Exodus 14:9 (b)c - Exodus 14:10 a (afraid) J, Exodus 14:10 b E, Exodus 14:11 J,...

AND THE SEA RETURNED. A sudden cessation of the wind at sunrise, coinciding with the spring-tide, would immediately convert the low flat sand-banks, into quicksand first, and then into. mass of waters, in. far less time than would suffice for the escape of. single chariot or horseman.--_ Canon Cook._ THE LORD OVERTHREW THE EGYPTIANS IN THE MIDST OF THE SEA. There can be no doubt that the king and host perished in the midst of the sea. The blow so crippled the Egyptians that no more pursuit was made of the fugitives. Egyptian history seems to point out, as gathered from the monuments, that it was seventeen years after the death of this king before any attempt was made to recover the lost ascendency of Egypt in Arabia and Syria. Thus the Israelites "were baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea," for "they all were under the cloud and passed through the sea" ...

STRENGTH. irresistible might....