Thus all the Egyptians were drowned. Only one was spared -
Pharaoh himself. When the children of Israel raised their voices to
sing a song of praise to God at the shores of the Red Sea, Pharaoh
heard it as he was jostled hither and thither by the billows, and he
pointed his finger heavenward, and called out: "I believe in Thee,
O God! Thou art righteous, and I and My people are wicked, and I
acknowledge now that there is no god in the world beside Thee."
Without a moments delay, Gabriel descended and laid and iron
chain about Pharaoh's neck, and holding him securely, he
addressed him thus: "Villain! Yesterday thou didst say, 'Who is the
Lord that I should hearken to His voice?' and now thou sayest, 'The
Lord is righteous.'" With that he let him drop into the depths of the
sea, and there he tortured him for fifty days, to make the power of
God known to him. At the end of the time he installed him as king
of the great city of Nineveh, and after the lapse of many centuries,
when Jonah came to Nineveh, and prophesied the overthrow of the
city on account of the evil done by the people, it was Pharaoh who,
seized by fear and terror, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat
in ashes, and with his own mouth made proclamation and
published this decree through Nineveh: "Let neither man nor beast,
herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed nor drink water;
for I know there is no god beside Him in all the world, all His
words are truth, and all His judgements are true and faithful."

Pharaoh never died, and never will die. He always stands at the
portal of hell, and when the kings of the nations enter, he makes
the power of God known to them at once, in these words: "O ye
fools! Why have ye not learnt knowledge from me? I am denied
the Lord God, and He brought ten plagues upon me, sent me to the