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The Story of Redemption
their power, and they were sure of them, an unexpected way was
opened for them in the sea. They decided to follow them.
“And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them, to the midst
of the sea, even all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the Lord looked unto
the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud,
and troubled the host of the Egyptians, and took off their chariot
wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let
us flee from the face of Israel; for the Lord fighteth for them against
the Egyptians.”
The Egyptians dared to venture in the path God had prepared
for His people, and angels of God went through their host and re-
moved their chariot wheels. They were plagued. Their progress was
very slow, and they began to be troubled. They remembered the
judgments that the God of the Hebrews had brought upon them in
Egypt to compel them to let Israel go, and they thought that God
might deliver them all into the hands of the Israelites. They decided
that God was fighting for the Israelites, and they were terribly afraid
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and were turning about to flee from them, when “the Lord said unto
Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may
come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their
horsemen.
“And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea
returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyp-
tians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the
midst of the sea. And the waters returned, and covered the chariots,
and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea
after them; there remained not so much as one of them. But the chil-
dren of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the
waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Thus the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians;
and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore. And Israel
saw that great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians: and
the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord, and His servant
Moses.”
As the Hebrews witnessed the marvelous work of God in the
destruction of the Egyptians, they united in an inspired song of lofty
eloquence and grateful praise.
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