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Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen."
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God's Sovereign Command
Commentators emphasize that the sea returned not by chance, but by a direct command from God to Moses. The same authority that parted the waters now commanded them to close. As John Calvin notes, the sea 'had no less obeyed God’s command' in destroying the Egyptians than it did in saving the Israelites, demonstrating God's absolute control over creation for both salvation and judgment.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
That the waters may come - A sudden cessation of the wind, possibly coinciding with a spring tide (it was full moon), would immediately conv…
19th Century
Anglican
The Egyptians pursued. — All the Israelites having entered the bed of the sea, the pillar of the cloud, it would seem, withdrew af…
Baptist
And well they might! Yet how soon they murmured both against the Lord and against Moses!
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16th Century
Protestant
And the Lord said to Moses. Moses here relates how the sea, in destroying the Egyptians, had no less obeyed God’s command than when it rec…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the Lord said to Moses Out of the pillar of fire and of the cloud, when the Egyptians were in all the confusion …
The dividing of the Red Sea was the terror of the Canaanites (Joshua 2:9); the praise and triumph of the Israelites ([Reference Psalms …
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