Exo 14:21-22, Jos 3:16-17, Psa 114:3, 5, Isa 50:2, Nah 1:4, Mar 4:39 | TSK | STEP

Exodus 14:21-22

stretched.

the Lord.

15:8; Jos 3:13-16; 4:23; Ne 9:11; Job 26:12; Ps 66:6; 74:13

Ps 78:13; 106:7-10; 114:3-5; 136:13; Isa 51:10,15; 63:12

the children.

29; 15:19; Nu 33:8; Ps 66:6; 78:13; Isa 63:13; 1Co 10:1; Heb 11:29

and the waters.This verse demonstrates that this event was wholly miraculous, and cannot be ascribed, as some have supposed, to an extraordinary ebb, which happened just then to be produced by a strong east wind: for this would not have caused the waters, contrary to every law of fluids, to stand as a wall on the right hand and the left.

a wall.

15:8; Hab 3:8-10; Zec 2:5

Joshua 3:16-17

rose up.

13; Ps 29:10; 77:19; 114:3; Mt 8:26,27; 14:24-33

Zaretan.

1Ki 4:12

Zartanah.

1Ki 7:46

Zarthan. the salt sea.

15:2; Ge 14:3; Nu 34:3; De 3:17The passage through the Red Sea took place in the night, when the Israelites were fleeing from the Egyptians with great trepidation: but they passed Jordan in the day-time, with previous warning, leisurely, directly opposite to Jericho, and with a triumphant defiance of the Canaanites; this passage into the promised land evidently typifying the believer's passage through death to heaven.

the priests.

3-6

stood firm.

4:3; 2Ki 2:8

all the Israelites.

Ex 14:22,29; Ps 66:6; Isa 25:8; Heb 11:29