Exodus 14:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

The Lord Called the angel before; looked unto the host of the Egyptians He looked upon them in anger, Psalms 104:32. He visited them with marks of his displeasure, and troubled the Egyptians with terrible winds, lightnings, and thunders, Exodus 15:10; Psalms 77:18-19; also, with terror of mind. Through the pillar of fire and of the cloud It seems not improbable but that, whereas the cloudy part of the pillar had been toward the Egyptians hitherto, it now turned the other side toward them, and confounded them with showing them their situation.

Exodus 14:24

24 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,