Six Hundred Chariots and the Drowning Mire of the Sea

Another interpretation: They said, "and he took six hundred chariots" (Exodus 14:7); You too, "the chariots of Pharaoh and his host." They said, "and captains over all of them" (ibid.); You too, "the choicest of his captains were sunk in the Sea of Reeds." They embittered their lives with mortar; You too, by that same measure, did to them, for You made the waters like mortar, and they kept sinking into them. Therefore it is said, "sunk in the Sea of Reeds," and "sinking" refers to nothing but mortar, as it is said, "and Jeremiah sank into the mire" (Jeremiah 38:6), and it says, "I have sunk in deep mire" (Psalms 69:3). Therefore it is said, "sunk in the Sea of Reeds."