Hébreux 11:29

29 Par la foi, ils passèrent par la mer Rouge comme par un lieu sec; les Égyptiens ayant tenté le passage, furent submergés.

Hébreux 11:29 Meaning and Commentary

Hebrews 11:29

By faith they passed through the Red sea, as by dry land,
&c.] Not through a river, but through the sea, the Red sea, the sea of Suph, or weeds; (See Gill on Acts 7:36). Some say they came out on the same side they went in; but it should seem rather, by the phrase here used, that they passed through it, from one side to the other; and that all one as if it had been on dry ground; even Moses, and all the children of Israel: and this they did by faith, believing, that God would make a passage quite through it for them, and deliver them out of the hands of their enemies, who were closely pursuing them:

which the Egyptians assaying to do, were drowned.
These were Pharaoh, and his numerous army; who, observing the Israelites march on through the sea, as on dry land, thought they could do the same; and so made an attempt, but were everyone of them drowned; in just retaliation for the cruel edict for drowning the male infants of the Israelites, as soon as they were born.

Hébreux 11:29 In-Context

27 Par la foi, il quitta l'Égypte, sans craindre la colère du roi; car il demeura ferme, comme voyant celui qui est invisible.

28 Par la foi, il fit la Pâque, et l'aspersion du sang, afin que l'exterminateur des premiers-nés ne touchât point ceux des Israélites.

29 Par la foi, ils passèrent par la mer Rouge comme par un lieu sec; les Égyptiens ayant tenté le passage, furent submergés.

30 Par la foi, les murailles de Jéricho tombèrent, après qu'on en eut fait le tour pendant sept jours.

31 Par la foi, Rahab, la courtisane, ne périt point avec les rebelles, parce qu'elle avait reçu les espions en paix.