Verse 18
Red sea . Hebrew. Yam suph = weedy, or reedy. Eng. "Red" comes from the Greeks reading Edom (whose land it washed) as an appellative instead of a proper name (Esau or Edom = red, Genesis 25:25 ). Called "red "from Septuagint. Dried up fifty miles north of present shore. Will quite dry up at future Exodus. Isaiah 11:15 , Isaiah 11:16 ; Isaiah 19:5 .
harnessed = armed, as Joshua 1:14 . Jdg 7:11 . 1 Chronicles 7:21 ; or marshalled by fives, as in 2 Kings 1:9 . Isaiah 3:3 (the number of grace, see App-10 ). To this day five is an evil number in Egypt. Whichever is the meaning, both point to order and organization. They were an ordered "host" (Exodus 12:41 ), and not a disorderly rabble.
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