God
delivers the children of Israel from the Egyptians, They
cross throw the Red Sea on dry ground.
Pharaoh
and his army are drowned in the sea.
(Exo 14:2 KJV)Speak unto the children
of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth,
between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon:
before it shall ye encamp by
the sea.
(Exo 14:9 KJV)But the Egyptians
pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of
Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the
sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon.
(Exo 14:10 KJV)And when Pharaoh drew
nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and,
behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were
sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.
(Exo 14:16 KJV)But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine
hand over the sea, and divide it: and the
children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the
midst of the sea.
(Exo 14:22 KJV)And the children of
Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry
ground: and the waters were a
wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
(Exo 15:8 KJV) And with the blast of thy
nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an
heap, and the depths were congealed in the
heart of the sea.
Congealed
kaw-faw'
A primitive root;
to shrink,
that is,
thicken
(as frozen water)
As
an
heap
A tossing
into a pile.
in the sense of piling up;
to form into a mound;
heap up.
Children
of
Israel walked upon
dry land in the midst of the sea
(Exo 14:21, 22 KJV)And Moses stretched out
his hand over the sea; and the
LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind
all that night, and made the sea dry land, and
the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went
into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the
waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on
their left.
(Exo 14:24, 25 KJV)And it came to pass,
that in the morning watch 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 took off their chariot
wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the
Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for
the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
The "morning watch"
in which
God released the waters against
the pursuing Egyptians
was the last
watch before dawn, between
3 am and 6 am.
(Exo 14:23
KJV)
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.
(Exo 14:28 KJV)And the waters returned,
and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came
into the sea after them; there remained not so
much as one of them.
By
sunrise
all the army
of Pharaoh
Was destroyed.
(Exo 14:30 KJV) Thus
the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand
of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon
the sea shore.
They
sang
a song
of praise
and thanksgiving
to God,
for their deliverance.
They crossed the Red Sea on the seventh day, and that is
why they were told to eat unleavened bread for 7 days
during the feast of Unleavened Bread to commemorate their
journey.
THE ANNALS
THE WORLD
This happened on the 21st day of the first
month on the last day of the feast of unleavened
bread, as appointed by God. This is the general
opinion of the Jews and most agreeable to truth.
