Ebrei 11:29

29 Per fede passarono il Mar rosso, come per l’asciutto; il che tentando fare gli Egizi, furono abissati.

Ebrei 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.

Ebrei 11:29 In-Context

27 Per fede lasciò l’Egitto, non avendo temuta l’ira del re; perciocchè egli stette costante, come veggendo l’invisibile.

28 Per fede fece la pasqua, e lo spruzzamento del sangue; acciocchè colui che distruggeva i primogeniti non toccasse gli Ebrei.

29 Per fede passarono il Mar rosso, come per l’asciutto; il che tentando fare gli Egizi, furono abissati.

30 Per fede caddero le mura di Gerico, essendo state circuite per sette giorni.

31 Per fede Raab, la meretrice, avendo accolte le spie in pace, non perì con gli increduli.