Exodus 15:4 - Exposition

Pharaoh's chariots and his host. The "host" of this passage is not the "army" of Exodus 14:9 , though in the original the same word is used, but the whole multitude of those who rode in the chariots, and were drowned in the sea. Hath he cast. Or "hurled." The verb commonly expresses the hurling of a javelin or the shooting of an arrow. His chosen captains . Compare Exodus 14:7 . Are drowned . Literally, "were submerged." The word describes the act of drowning, not the state of lying drowned in the depths of the sea.