Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 15:4

Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.

4 . and his host ] Cf. Exo 14:4; Exo 14:9; Exo 14:17; Exo 14:28.

And his chosen (Heb. the choice of his) knights ] See on Exo 14:7.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Verse 4. Pharaoh’s chariots – his host – his chosen captains] On such an expedition it is likely that the principal Egyptian nobility accompanied their king, and that the overthrow they met with here had reduced Egypt to the lowest extremity. Had the Israelites been intent on plunder, or had Moses been influenced by a spirit of ambition, how easily might both have gratified themselves, as, had they returned, they might have soon overrun and subjugated the whole land.

Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible

With great force, like an arrow out of a bow; as the Hebrew word signifies.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

Pharaoh’s chariots and his hosts hath he cast into the sea,…. Which was done by the Angel of the Lord, who was Jehovah himself, our Immanuel, and man of war, as appears from Ex 14:17, an emblem of the destruction of antichrist, and all the antichristian states, of which Pharaoh and his host were types:

his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea: who were appointed over his chosen chariots, which all perished in the sea together. In the carnage that will be made by Christ, the warrior and conqueror, among the followers of antichrist, the man of “sin”, the antitypical Pharaoh, the flesh of captains is mentioned for the fowls of heaven to feed upon, Re 19:18.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

4. Pharaoh’s chariots. Moses in these words only meant to assert, that the drowning of Pharaoh was manifestly God’s work. Therefore, he now illustrates in more glowing terms the transaction which he had before simply narrated; as also when he compares the Egyptians to stones and lead, as if he had said that they were hurled by God’s mighty hand into the deep, so that they had no power to swim out. On this score, he repeats twice the mention of God’s “right hand;” as much as to say that such a miracle could not be ascribed either to fortune or to the efforts of man. We must take notice of what he soon after says, that the Egyptians “rose up against” God; because they had treated His people with injustice and cruelty. Thence we gather, that God’s majesty is violated by the wicked, whenever His Church, whose safety He has undertaken to preserve by His faithful patronage, is assailed by them. “Thou sentest forth thy wrath,” and “with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together,” are to be read in conjunction; for their meaning is that God, without any instrumentality, but by His simple volition, and in manifestation of His wrath, had brought the enemy to. destruction.

Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary

(4) His chosen captains.Comp. Exo. 14:7, where the same word is used.

Are drowned.Rather, were drowned.

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

If we consider the subject all along spiritually, which undoubtedly, in order to enter into the full enjoyment of it, we ought, what a refreshing thought is it to consider, that as Pharaoh is a type of the great enemy of souls, and is here with all his retinue destroyed, so ultimately will be that foe of God and man. See Exo 14:28 , compared with Rev 12:9-11 .

Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

Exo 15:4 Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.

Ver. 4. In the Red Sea. ] So called, haply, from that red man, Esau or Edom, who usurped the dominion of that sea, now called Sinus Arabicus.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)