earth swallowed them] The Earth is (sometimes) taken for the Globe which is made up of earth and sea, as distinguished from the heaven, the upper part of the world, and so by a Synedoche, the earth may be said to swallow them, though the sea drowned them; or they may be said to be swallowed up in the earth, because the ground which was solid to the Israelites, was soft to them, and they sunke into it, like a stone or lead into mire, vers. 5. 10. See Annot. on vers. 5. And it may be when they were found dead on the shore, Chap. 14. vers. 30. they were buried in a pit to prevent the corruption of the ayre.