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God's Inescapable Judgment
Commentators note the sea returned to its full "strength" as morning dawned. The Egyptians, already slowed by clogged chariot wheels in the mud, tried to flee but were met by the returning waves. The Hebrew for "overthrew" suggests God violently "shook them off" or "hurled them" into the churning sea, making their destruction complete and their escape impossible.
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Exodus
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Albert Barnes
On Exodus 14:27
18th Century
Theologian
Overthrew the Egyptians - Better as in the margin, The Lord shook them off, hurled them from their chariots into the sea.
Charles Ellicott
On Exodus 14:23–28
19th Century
Bishop
The Egyptians pursued. — All the Israelites having entered the bed of the sea, the pillar of the cloud, it would seem, withdrew af…
Charles Spurgeon
On Exodus 14:26–31
19th Century
Preacher
And well they might! Yet how soon they murmured both against the Lord and against Moses!
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John Gill
On Exodus 14:27
17th Century
Pastor
And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea
Or towards it, as he was ordered, the rod being in his hand, as befo…
Matthew Henry
On Exodus 14:21–31
17th Century
Minister
The dividing of the Red Sea was the terror of the Canaanites (Joshua 2:9); the praise and triumph of the Israelites ([Reference Psalms …