Question:
Did Pharaoh accompany his army when they went after the Israelites? If so, did he die with them?
Answer:
We read in Exodus 14 that Pharaoh personally led his army against the Jews.
There are differing opinions in the Midrash1 concerning his fate. Some say that he drowned in the Red Sea together with his army, while others opine that he survived the miraculous event. He survived in order to retell a firsthand account of the miracles and wonders that G‑d performed.
According to one Midrash,2 he made his way to Nineveh, Assyria, where he became king—the same king who when hearing the prophet Jonah's message from G‑d foretelling Nineveh's destruction, encouraged all his subjects to repent in order to avert the divine decree. Apparently he had learned his lesson.
Wishing you a happy and kosher Passover!
Yours truly,
Rabbi Menachem Posner
Ex. 14:6-9. So he sent for his chariot and took his army with him. He took six hundred elite chariots and all of Egypt’s other chariots with captains on all of them. The Lord made Pharaoh, Egypt’s king, stubborn, and he chased the Israelites, who were leaving confidently. The Egyptians, including all of Pharaoh’s horse-drawn chariots, his cavalry, and his army, chased them and caught up with them as they were camped by the sea, by Pi-hahiroth in front of Baal-zephon.
This clearly mean that king pharaoh himself went with the army but in Exodus 14:28 make us to understand that the entire army of pharaoh not one of them survive .
Reference scripture. Psalm 136:15.
This say that the Lord swept Pharaoh and his army into the red Sea.