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Pharaoh in his chariot and Pharaoh's six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt chase the Children of Israel as they flee Egypt.
And the Children of Israel cried out to the Lord.
(And chariots at the time must have been the height of military technology, of sophisticated weaponry.)
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God
splits the Sea and God sends the Children of Israel through the Sea,
and Pharaoh and his chariots chase the Children of Israel through the
Sea.
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God removed the wheels of the chariots of Pharaoh's army.
It is then that the Egyptians say: Let us flee from before Israel, for the Lord fights for Israel against Egypt.
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The Children Israel pass through the Sea.
God makes the Sea whole again.
The Egyptians, with their un-wheeled chariots, are drowned.
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Then Moses and the Children of Israel sang a song to the Lord.
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When the battle ends, it is prayer—a song to the Lord—and
not chariots, and not sophisticated weaponry, not technology—not tanks
or warplanes or long-range missiles or motorcars or smartphones or the
Internet—that is victorious.
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This thought was inspired by Jay Michaelson's reading of Shelley's "Ozymandias"
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