Thus the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of
the
Egyptians
For though it was now six or seven days since they had leave to
go out of Egypt, and actually did depart, yet they could not be
said properly to be saved, or to be in safety, till this day,
when all the Egyptians their enemies were destroyed, that pursued
after them; and this was the twenty first day of the month, and
the seventh and last day of the passover, and was an holy
convocation to the Lord; (See Gill on Exodus
12:16) and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the sea
shore;
all along, as a late traveller F8 observes, as we may presume,
from Sdur (or Shur) to Corondel, and at Corondel especially, from
the assistance and termination of the current there. The word for
"dead" F9 is in the singular number, and
joined with a plural may denote that they saw everyone of the
Egyptians dead, since they were all destroyed, and not one
remained of them, as in ( Exodus 14:28
) . Aben Ezra thinks the sense of the words is, not that the
Egyptians were seen dead upon the sea shore, but that the
Israelites standing upon the sea shore saw the dead bodies of the
Egyptians, that is, floating on the waters of the sea; but rather
the meaning is, that their dead bodies were by the force of the
waters cast upon the shore, and there beheld and plundered by the
Israelites. Josephus F11 observes, that the day following
(that night the Egyptians were drowned) the arms of the Egyptians
being cast on the shore where the Hebrews encamped, through the
force of the sea and wind, Moses gathered them up and armed the
Hebrews with them; and this will account for it how they came to
have arms, since it is highly probable they came out of Egypt
unarmed; and how they could fight battles as they did in the
wilderness, and when they came into the land of Canaan.