Instead, he led them in a roundabout way through the desert toward the Red Sea. The Israelites were armed for battle.

"He threw Egypt's army and its chariots into the sea; the best of its officers were drowned in the Red Sea.

I will remove the locust army that came from the north and will drive some of them into the desert. Their front ranks will be driven into the Dead Sea, their rear ranks into the Mediterranean. Their dead bodies will stink. I will destroy them because of all they have done to you.

It was faith that made the Israelites able to cross the Red Sea as if on dry land; when the Egyptians tried to do it, the water swallowed them up.