Exodus 14:30-31

30, 31. The Egyptians dead upon the sea shore The western wind and the returning tide strewed the eastern shore with men and horses, chariots and armour . Josephus says: “On the next day Moses gathered together the weapons of the Egyptians which were brought to the camp of the Hebrews by the current of the sea and the force of the winds assisting it . ” ( Antiq . , 2: 16, 6 . ) Thus might the Israelites have obtained arms for the battles afterwards described with the desert tribes and the Canaanites .

Thus the Lord saved Israel that day Israel ever remembered this day and this event as the beginning of their national life . Reminiscences of the Red Sea deliverance are interwoven with all their literature, worship, and social life . Profane history has also preserved unmistakable traditions of this great event . Diodorus Siculus (iii, 39) relates that the inhabitants along the shore of the Sea have a tradition that it was once left dry by a great ebb tide, so that the bottom appeared. Artapanus relates ( Euseb., Praep. Evang., 9: 27) that the inhabitants of Memphis said that Moses led the hosts through the Red Sea during an ebb tide, while the inhabitants of Heliopolis said that Moses, when chased by the king, divided the Sea with his rod, but that when the Egyptians followed after them fire flashed upon them and the waters rolled back and destroyed them. In the language of Ewald, this is an event “whose historical certainty is well established, and its momentous results… are even to us distinctly visible.” ( Hist. of Israel, 2: 75.) It is not surprising that men who refuse to admit the supernatural anywhere attempt to explain the Red Sea deliverance as a fortuitous coincidence of natural events. Obstinate unbelief can resolve all answers to prayer into happy accidents. No amount of evidence can demonstrate the supernatural to him who lacks spiritual insight. No miracle can compel conviction like a mathematical demonstration, for the proof of divine activity is addressed to the moral and not to the intellectual man. The grandest miracle recorded in history, the resurrection of the Son of God, did not convince all who witnessed it, for “some doubted.” If unbelief were not always possible faith would not be a rewardable virtue, and it is this faith that sees with Israel that great work which Jehovah did upon the Egyptians.