And Israel saw the great work
Or "hand" F12; the hand of the Lord, the mighty
power of God, and took notice of it, and seriously considered the
greatness of it: which the Lord did upon the
Egyptians;
which mighty hand he laid upon them, and which great power he
exercised on them, and which great work, the effect thereof, he
wrought in destroying them in such a manner, by causing the
waters, which divided for them and their safety, to return upon
the Egyptians to their utter destruction: and the people
feared the Lord;
had an awe of his power and greatness upon their minds, and a
sense of his goodness to them upon their hearts, which influenced
their fear of him, and caused them to fear him with a filial and
godly fear: and believed the Lord and his servant
Moses;
they believed the Lord to be the only Jehovah, the supreme Being,
the one only living and true God, faithful to his word, able to
do all things, and wise to do them in the fittest season, for his
own glory and his people's good; and they believed his promises,
and the fulfilment of them; and that as he had now saved them out
of the hands of the Egyptians, he would bring them to the land of
Canaan, which he had promised their fathers to give unto them;
and they believed Moses was sent of God to be their deliverer out
of Egypt, and to be their leader to the promised land; see (
Psalms
106:12 ) and who were now by the apostle said to be baptized
unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea, ( 1
Corinthians 10:1 1
Corinthians 10:2 ) and of their passage through the Red sea
under the direction of Moses being an emblem of baptism, (See
Gill on
1 Corinthians 10:1).
F12 (dyh) (thn ceira) Sept. Manum, Pagninus, Montanus