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Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
Overthrew the Egyptians - Better as in the margin, The Lord shook them off, hurled them from their chariots into the sea.
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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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea Or towards it, as he was ordered, the rod being in his hand, as befo…
The dividing of the Red Sea was the terror of the Canaanites (Joshua 2:9); the praise and triumph of the Israelites ([Reference Psalms …
