The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around.
KJV
The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.
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The clouds poured out water,.... This, with some other circumstances which follow, are not related by Moses in the history of this affair; but as they are here recorded by an inspired penman, there is no doubt to be made of the truth of them; besides Josephus (a) relates the same things; he says, that at the time when the Egyptians were drowned in the Red sea, rains descended from heaven, and there were terrible thunders, lightnings, and thunderbolts; this was when the Lord looked through the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
Exo 14:24
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the skies sent out a sound; or the airy clouds, the lighter ones, and which were higher in the heavens, as the others before mentioned were thick clouds, full of water, and hung lower; these were thunderclouds, and thunder is the sound which they sent forth, as in the following verse:
thine arrows also went abroad: that is, lightnings, as in
Psa 18:14
, so Aben Ezra; but Kimchi interprets them of hailstones.
(a) Antiqu. l. 2. c. 16. sect. 3.
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