the children: Exodus 14:29, Exodus 15:19; Numbers 33:8; Psalms 66:6, Psalms 78:13; Isaiah 63:13; 1 Corinthians 10:1; Hebrews 11:29
and the waters: This verse demonstrates that this event was wholly miraculous, and cannot be ascribed, as some have supposed, to an extraordinary ebb, which happened just then to be produced by a strong east wind. For this would not have caused the waters, contrary to every law of fluids, to stand as a wall on the right hand and the left.
a wall: Exodus 15:8; Habakkuk 3:8-10; Zechariah 2:5