Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 14:25
And took off their chariot wheels, that they drove them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
25 . removed. The marg. bound (Sam. LXX. Pesh.; for ), i.e. clogged, presumably by their sinking in the wet sand, is probably to be preferred (so Di. B.).
and made them to drive (them) heavily. The marg. is preferable, for grammatical reasons.
and Egypt said, Let me flee. The same idiomatic and forcible singular as in v. 10. So frequently, as Num 20:18-19, Deu 2:27-29, Jos 17:14 f., 17 f., besides often in the prophets (cf. LOT. p. 390).
fighteth ] as v. 14.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Took off their chariot wheels; either burning them with lightning, or tearing them in pieces with thunder-bolts, or loosening them, and making them to fall off.
That they drave them heavily; Heb. and he made him, or them, the singular number for the plural, i.e. the Egyptians, or their chariots, to go heavily, hardly and slowly, either for want of wheels, or for breaches in them, or because the rain had softened the bottom of the sea, or because the lightnings and thunders affrighted and dispirited their horses.
For the Lord fighteth for them. Prodigious stupidity! They did not understand and consider this, though it was notorious, to them especially, by many great and fresh instances, till it was too late to prevent it; therein being a type of most sinners, who will not be convinced, nor repent, till they be past all benefit by it.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
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 s 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.
s Paradise Lost, B. 12. ver. 210. t “et deduxit eos graviter”, Vatablus; “et duxit eos cum gravitate”, Drusius; so Ainsworth.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
“ And (Jehovah) made the wheels of his (the Egyptian’s) chariots give way, and made, that he (the Egyptian) drove in difficulty.” ”.ytlucif to drive a chariot (2Sa 6:3, cf. 2Ki 9:20).
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
25. Took off their chariot wheels Their chariots were entangled with each other, bemired, broken, and overturned in the awful confusion that ensued from the pouring rains, blinding lightnings, and appalling thunders . Yet this was but a premonition of what awaited them when the sea returned to his strength.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Exo 14:25. And took off their chariot-wheels Houbigant renders this, irretivit, seu ligavit rotas curruum: he entangled, or bound the wheels of the chariots; which making them to drive more heavily, the Egyptians said, &c. The Egyptian host, it is to be remembered, consisted only of chariots and cavalry, which might find great difficulty in passing through this channel, where the children of Israel, who were all on foot, found none; for, naturalists of the first authority unanimously testify, that this gulph has an extremely foul and clayey bottom, abounding with aquatic plants and shrubs, and, in many places, with extremely rugged rocks; all of which, easily passable by footmen, might very much incommode chariots and cavalry, embarrass and entangle them, and indeed render their passage impracticable: therefore, though it may be truly said that the Lord entangled their chariot-wheels, yet we may well suppose, that nature here fought with its Great Master against the unwise; and that second causes concurred with the immediate agency of GOD. See Gen 11:7. The Egyptians seem to have considered this as the immediate operation of Jehovah: they said, let us flee,for Jehovah (as it should constantly be rendered,) fighteth for them.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
The hour of reckoning is come. See that awful account, Eze_31:15; Eze_31:18 . And is not the destruction of Pharaoh a type of the everlasting destruction of the wicked? See Rev 20:14 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
took off: Jdg 4:15, Psa 46:9, Psa 76:6, Jer 51:21
that they drave them heavily: or, and made them to go heavily
Let us flee: Job 11:20, Job 20:24, Job 27:22, Psa 68:12, Amo 1:14, Amo 5:19, Amo 9:1
for the Lord: Exo 14:14, Deu 3:22, 1Sa 4:7, 1Sa 4:8
Reciprocal: Exo 14:24 – and troubled Deu 1:30 – he shall Deu 28:10 – and they shall Deu 32:31 – General Jos 10:42 – because Jdg 7:21 – all the host 2Ch 14:12 – General 2Ch 20:17 – not need Neh 4:20 – our God Neh 6:16 – for they perceived Psa 35:1 – fight Psa 48:5 – were Psa 106:22 – terrible Isa 10:26 – his rod Zec 9:14 – seen Rev 11:12 – and their
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Exo 14:25. They drave heavily They had driven furiously, but they now found themselves embarrassed at every step; the way grew deep, their hearts grew sad, their wheels dropped off, and the axle-trees failed. They had been flying upon the back of Israel as the hawk on the dove; but now they cried, Let us flee from the face of Israel.