By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
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Gill's Exposition
By faith the harlot Rahab,.... The Targum on Jos 2:1 calls her , "a woman, that kept a victualling house": this paraphrase is taken notice of by Jarchi and Kimchi on the place, who interpret it, "a…
Barnes' Notes
By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land - Exo 14:22, Exo 14:29. That is, it was only by confidence in God that they were able to do this. It was not by power which they had to remove…
Adam Clarke
By faith they passed through the Red Sea - See the notes on Exo 14:22. The Egyptians thought they could walk through the sea as well as the Israelites; they tried, and were drowned; while the former…
The apostle, having given us a more general account of the grace of faith, now proceeds to set before us some illustrious examples of it in the Old Testament times, and these may be divided into two…
Cambridge Bible
they Moses and the Israelites.
were drowned Lit., "were swallowed up" (Exo 14:15-28; Psa 106:9-12).
which the Egyptians assaying to do The Greek words must mean "of which sea" (or "of which dry land")…
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