Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 15:12

12 Thou stretchest out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.

Either 1. The Globe consisting of Earth and Water, which is here called Earth, as it is called the deep and the waters, Gen. 1. 2. Or, 2. The Earth is here put for the Sea, the other part of the same Globe, as the Soul is put for the body or the dead carcass, the other part of the man, Levit. 19. 28. and 21. 1. Numb. 6. 6, 9, 11. Or, 3. The Earth properly, either because many of them sunk into the mud at the bottom of the Sea, and were buryed in it: Or because after they were cast up upon the shore, they were buried by the Israelites in the Earth.