Éxodo 14:25

25 Torció
las ruedas de los carros, para que les resultara difícil manejarlos. «¡Salgamos de aquí, alejémonos de los israelitas! —gritaban los egipcios—; ¡el Señor
está luchando por ellos en contra de Egipto!».

Éxodo 14:25 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 14:25

And took off their chariot wheels
The Targum of Jonathan renders it "cut" or "sawed them off"; perhaps they might be broken off by the hailstones. Milton ^F19 seems to have a notion of Pharaoh's chariot wheels being broken, when he says, "and craze" (i.e. break) "their chariot wheels"; or, as Jarchi suggests, he burnt them, through the force of the fire or lightning:

that they drave them heavily;
the wheels being off, the chariots must be dragged along by the horses by mere force, which must be heavy work; or, "and made them to go, or led them heavily", or "with heaviness" {t}; and so to be ascribed to the Lord, who looked at the Egyptians, took off the wheels of their chariots, and stopped them in the fury of their career, that they could not pursue with the swiftness they had:

so that the Egyptians said, let us flee from the face of Israel;
for by this battery and flashes of fire on them, they concluded that Israel, who they thought were fleeing before them, had turned and were facing them, and the Lord at the head of them; and therefore it was high time for them to flee, as follows:

for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians;
for they rightly took the thunder and lightning, the fire and hailstones, to be the artillery of heaven turned against them, and in favour of the Israelites. Jarchi interprets it, the Lord fights for them in Egypt, even in Egypt itself; but so he had done many a time before, of which they were not insensible.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 Paradise Lost, B. 12. ver. 210.
F20 (tdbkb Mghnyw) "et deduxit eos graviter", Vatablus; "et duxit eos cum gravitate", Drusius; so Ainsworth.

Éxodo 14:25 In-Context

23 Entonces los egipcios —con todos los carros de guerra y sus conductores, y con los caballos del faraón— persiguieron a los israelitas hasta el medio del mar.

24 Pero poco antes del amanecer, el Señor
miró al ejército egipcio desde la columna de fuego y de nube, y causó gran confusión en sus fuerzas de combate.

25 Torció
las ruedas de los carros, para que les resultara difícil manejarlos. «¡Salgamos de aquí, alejémonos de los israelitas! —gritaban los egipcios—; ¡el Señor
está luchando por ellos en contra de Egipto!».

26 Cuando todos los israelitas habían llegado al otro lado, el Señor
le dijo a Moisés: «Extiende otra vez tu mano sobre el mar, y las aguas volverán con fuerza y cubrirán a los egipcios, a sus carros y a sus conductores».

27 Entonces, cuando el sol comenzaba a salir, Moisés extendió su mano sobre el mar y las aguas volvieron con fuerza a su estado normal. Los egipcios trataron de escapar, pero el Señor
los arrastró al mar.