He caused their chariot wheels to swerve, and He made them drive with difficulty; so the Egyptians said, "Let us flee from Israel, for the Lord is fighting for them against the Egyptians."I had forgotten about this part of the story. I remembered how they were blocked by the cloud and pillar of fire, and of course everyone knows the ending, but I didn't remember about God actively messing with the army.
After all that has been inflicted upon the Egyptians, they still keep coming around and thinking it was a fluke. How here, as they are rushing to crush the Israelites (rushing through a miraculous parting of the sea, in case they hadn't noticed), they are confounded by what we would today call "equipment failure," and wise up once again that this is a bad idea. Unfortunately, this time they wised up too late.
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