Exodus 15:4
New International Version
Pharaoh’s chariots and his army he has hurled into the sea. The best of Pharaoh’s officers are drowned in the Red Sea.

New Living Translation
Pharaoh’s chariots and army he has hurled into the sea. The finest of Pharaoh’s officers are drowned in the Red Sea.

English Standard Version
“Pharaoh’s chariots and his host he cast into the sea, and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea.

Berean Standard Bible
Pharaoh’s chariots and army He has cast into the sea; the finest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.

King James Bible
Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.

New King James Version
Pharaoh’s chariots and his army He has cast into the sea; His chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea.

New American Standard Bible
“Pharaoh’s chariots and his army He has thrown into the sea; And the choicest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.

NASB 1995
“Pharaoh’s chariots and his army He has cast into the sea; And the choicest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.

NASB 1977
“Pharaoh’s chariots and his army He has cast into the sea; And the choicest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.

Legacy Standard Bible
Pharaoh’s chariots and his army He has cast into the sea; And the choicest of his officers are sunk in the Red Sea.

Amplified Bible
“Pharaoh’s chariots and his army He has thrown into the sea; His chosen captains are drowned in the Red Sea.

Christian Standard Bible
He threw Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea; the elite of his officers were drowned in the Red Sea.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He threw Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea; the elite of his officers were drowned in the Red Sea.

American Standard Version
Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea; And his chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The chariots of Pharaoh and his army he cast into the sea and he drowned the chosen of his mighty men in The Sea of Reeds.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
He has cast the chariots of Pharao and his host into the sea, the chosen mounted captains: they were swallowed up in the Red Sea.

Contemporary English Version
He threw the chariots and army of Egypt's king into the Red Sea, and he drowned the best of the king's officers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Pharao's chariots and his army he hath cast into the sea: his chosen captains are drowned in the Red Sea.

English Revised Version
Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: And his chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He has thrown Pharaoh's chariots and army into the sea. Pharaoh's best officers were drowned in the Red Sea.

Good News Translation
"He threw Egypt's army and its chariots into the sea; the best of its officers were drowned in the Red Sea.

International Standard Version
"Pharaoh's chariots and his army he has hurled into the sea; his best officers sank in the Reed Sea.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath He cast into the sea, And his chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.

Literal Standard Version
Chariots of Pharaoh and his force | He has cast into the sea; And the choice of his captains | Have sunk in the Red Sea!

Majority Standard Bible
Pharaoh’s chariots and army He has cast into the sea; the finest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.

New American Bible
Pharaoh’s chariots and army he hurled into the sea; the elite of his officers were drowned in the Red Sea.

NET Bible
The chariots of Pharaoh and his army he has thrown into the sea, and his chosen officers were drowned in the Red Sea.

New Revised Standard Version
“Pharaoh’s chariots and his army he cast into the sea; his picked officers were sunk in the Red Sea.

New Heart English Bible
He has cast Pharaoh's chariots and his army into the sea. His choice officers were drowned in the Sea at the End.

Webster's Bible Translation
Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.

World English Bible
He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea. His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.

Young's Literal Translation
Chariots of Pharaoh and his force He hath cast into the sea; And the choice of his captains Have sunk in the Red Sea!

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Context
Moses' Song of Deliverance
3The LORD is a warrior, the LORD is His name. 4Pharaoh’s chariots and army He has cast into the sea; the finest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea. 5The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone.…

Cross References
Exodus 14:6
So Pharaoh prepared his chariot and took his army with him.

Exodus 14:7
He took 600 of the best chariots, and all the other chariots of Egypt, with officers over all of them.

Jeremiah 51:21
With you I shatter the horse and rider; with you I shatter the chariot and driver.


Treasury of Scripture

Pharaoh's chariots and his host has he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.

Exodus 14:13-28
And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever…

chosen

Exodus 14:7
And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.

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Exodus 15
1. The song of Moses, Miriam, and Israel on their deliverance
22. The people want water in the desert
23. The waters at Marah are bitter,
24. they murmur,
25. Moses prays, and sweetens the waters by God's direction
27. They encamp at Elim, where are twelve wells, and seventy palm trees














(4) His chosen captains.--Comp. Exodus 14:7, where the same word is used.

Are drowned.--Rather, were drowned.

Verse 4. - 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.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Pharaoh’s
פַּרְעֹ֛ה (par·‘ōh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 6547: Pharaoh -- a title of Egypt kings

chariots
מַרְכְּבֹ֥ת (mar·kə·ḇōṯ)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 4818: A chariot

and army
וְחֵיל֖וֹ (wə·ḥê·lōw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2426: An army, an intrenchment

He has thrown
יָרָ֣ה (yā·rāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3384: To flow as water, to lay, throw, to point out, to teach

into the sea;
בַיָּ֑ם (ḇay·yām)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin

the finest
וּמִבְחַ֥ר (ū·miḇ·ḥar)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4005: Choicest, best

of his officers
שָֽׁלִשָׁ֖יו (šā·li·šāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7991: A triple, a triangle, a three-fold measure, a general of the third rank

are drowned
טֻבְּע֥וּ (ṭub·bə·‘ū)
Verb - Pual - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2883: To sink, sink down

in the Red
סֽוּף׃ (sūp̄)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5488: A reed, the papyrus

Sea.
בְיַם־ (ḇə·yam-)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin


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