¹⁶ Raise your staff^(A) and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water^(B) so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.

²⁷ Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea went back to its place.^(A) The Egyptians were fleeing toward^[a] it, and the Lord swept them into the sea.^(B)

²⁵ They also captured two of the Midianite leaders, Oreb and Zeeb^(A). They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb,^(B) and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. They pursued the Midianites^(C) and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was by the Jordan.^(D)

³⁶ Then the angel^(A) of the Lord went out and put to death^(B) a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian^(C) camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies! ³⁷ So Sennacherib^(D) king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh^(E) and stayed there.

³⁸ One day, while he was worshiping in the temple^(F) of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat.^(G) And Esarhaddon^(H) his son succeeded him as king.^(I)