And the waters returned,.... To their place, and so in the above tradition related by Diodorus Siculus, it is said that the sea returning with a mighty force was restored to its place again;See Gill on "Ex 14:22".
and covered the chariots and the horsemen; the wall they made being much higher than a man on horseback, when they fell down, covered even those who had the advantage of horses and chariots; and much more must the infantry be covered by them, who may be meant in the next clause:and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; the foot, that went into the sea after the chariots and horsemen, or the whole army, including the cavalry and infantry, which went into the sea after the children of Israel.
Who this Pharaoh was is not agreed; according to Berosus his name was Cenchres, or Chenchres, whom Acherres succeeded; according to Bishop Usher it was Amenophis; but our English poet calls him Busiris; though Strabo says there was no king or governor of that name.
Diodorus Siculus indeed speaks of two so called; yet he elsewhere says, not that there was any king of the name, only the sepulchre of Osiris was so called:there remained not so much as one of them; wherefore it must be a falsehood which is related by some, that Pharaoh himself was preserved, and afterwards reigned in Nineveh , since not one was saved; see Ps 106:11 and so Artapanus the Heathen says, they all perished, and among these are said to be Jannes and Jambres, the magicians of Egypt mentioned in 2Ti 3:8 but this is contradicted by those who ascribe the making of the golden calf to them.
Antiqu. l. 5. fol. 88. 2. & 90. 2. Annal. Vet. Test. p. 19. "-------whose waves o'erthrew Busiris, and his Memphian chivalry." Milton's Paradise Lost, B. 1. v. 306, 307. Geograph. l. 17. p. 552. Bibliothec.
l. 1. p. 42. Bibliothec. l. 1. p. 79. Dibre Hayamim, fol. 13. 2. Ut supra. (Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 27. p. 436.) Midrash in Exod. xv. 10. & Arab. MS. apud Gregory's Notes & Observ. p. 6.
Shalshalet, fol. 7.