PHARAOH AND HIS HOST DROWNED IN

THE RED SEA.

AFTER the Israelites had quitted the land of Goshen, they encamped by Divine appointment before Pi-hahiroth, a narrow glen bounded on either side by two great mountains. This was done to deceive the Egyptian king, who imagining them to be "entangled in the land," pursued after them with his armies, to whom he thought, in their present straitened position, they must fall an easy prey. He therefore followed with a resolution to exterminate them; but Moses was enabled by a miracle to divide the waters of the Red Sea, and make a way "for the ransomed to pass over." To the astonishment of Pharaoh the waves divided at the lifting up of the rod of the Jewish lawgiver, and the host of Israel passed on dry land through the "depths of the sea." Pharaoh, in spite of the repeated warnings which God had already vouchsafed to him, impiously followed. "And the waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them: there remained not so much as one of

them." * In the accompanying illustration the waters are seen closing upon the Egyptians, governed by the uplifted rod of Moses, who stands with Aaron upon the ledge of a rock that abuts upon the shore of the Red Sea, now roused into violent commotion at the fiat of an Almighty will. The sky exhibits the tumult of a mighty tempest breaking over the agitated waters. Upon the distant horizon the pyramids are dimly perceptible, irradiated by the glare of the lightning, and indicating the locality whence the armies of Pharaoh had poured forth their strength to crush God's chosen people. The pillar which guided the Israelites is partly hidden by the tempest, but the head of the sacred column is visible, pouring forth the fire of God's wrath upon the disastrous hosts of Egypt. In the distance the grateful posterity of Jacob are offering a sacrifice to the Lord for their late deliverance.