Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 14:25

25 And took off their chariot-wheels , that they drave them heavily : so that the Egyptians said, let us flee from the face of Israel: for the LORD fighteth for them, against the Egyptians .

Either burning them with Lightning, or tearing them in pieces with Thunder-bolts, or loosening them and making them to fall off.

Heb. and he made him, or them, the singular number for the plural, i. e. The Egyptians or their Chariots, to go heavily, hardly and slowly, either for want of wheels or for breaches in them, or because the▪ Rain had softened the bottom of the Sea, or because the lightnings and Thunders affrighted and dispirited their Horses.

Prodigious stupidity! They did not understand nor consider this, though it was notorious, to them especially, by many great and fresh instances, till it was too late to prevent it, therein being a Type of most sinners, who will not be convinced nor repent, till they be past all benefit by it.

Marginal references: Or, made them to go heavily.