The Egyptians pursued and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. And in the morning watch the LORD in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the Egyptian forces and threw the Egyptian forces into a panic, clogging their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily. And the Egyptians said, "Let us flee from before Israel, for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians." Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen." So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the LORD threw the Egyptians into the midst of the sea. The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, not one of them remained. But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. Thus the LORD saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. Israel saw the great power that the LORD used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the LORD, and they believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses.
Exodus 14:23-31
Here is the final denouement of the tremendous and sustained conflict. God got Him honour upon Pharaoh and upon all his host (17). We best understand this final operation against the wicked king as a judicial enactment, the execution of the judgment pronounced at the Passover, the fulfilment of the sentence, for such it indeed was, and a lawless and wholly evil tyrant was brought to his deserved end. In 24 there is a notable and graphic description of how the Lord dealt with the enemies of Israel - He looked unto them through the pillar and troubled them. What volumes this speaks! The frown of the living God is a conception analogous to the still more terrible wrath of the Lamb mentioned in Revelation 6:16, and we doubt not that it dismayed and discomfited the Egyptians and spread confusion among them. This is something we may expect God to do when He begins to deal in earnest with those who oppose Him and harm His servants. Alas, it is sometimes only when it is too late to withdraw that His enemies see the extent of their folly. It was too late to come to this conclusion in the bed of the Red Sea when they had lost their chariot wheels, too late to recognise that the mighty Lord of Sabaoth was fighting against them. There could not have been a more complete rout and ruin than that effected by the hand of Moses when the rod once again came down to restore the waters to their appointed place. The words in 13, 'The Egyptians whom ye have seen today, ye shall see them again no more forever,' symbolise the completeness and finality of God's salvation, and the spiritual application is surely plain. This is what God seeks to do with our sins and the dark powers that tyrannise us. Let us think of the Cross, and know, as someone has said, that the sands of time are strewed with dead Egyptians, who once held the hearts and minds of men in thrall. And may it be so for our lives also.