Exodus 14:28

Not so much as one of them -Escape would be impossibleExodus 14:26. Pharaoh’s destruction, independent of the distinct statement of the Psalmist,Psalms 136:15, was in fact inevitable. The station of the king was in the vanguard: on every monument the Pharaoh is represented as the leader of the army. The death of the Pharaoh, and the entire loss of the chariotry and cavalry accounts for the undisturbed retreat of the Israelites through a district then subject to Egypt and easily accessible to their forces.