Exodus 15:12

Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.

Thou stretchedst out thy right hand. Recurrence is here again had to the image of a warrior driving a war-chariot. Like fiery steeds which find the reins slackened (Habakkuk 3:8), the waters, no longer restrained, rushed forward into the dried sands, and entombed all who stood on them in a watery grave-the deep parts of "the earth" (cf. Jonah 2:6).