Exo 13:17, 14:2-4, Jos 6:2-5, Judg 7:2-8, 15:15-16, 1Cor 1:18, 27-29 | TSK | STEP

Exodus 13:17

the people repent.

14:11,12; Nu 14:1-4; De 20:8; Jud 7:3; 1Ki 8:47; Lu 14:27-32

Ac 15:38

return.

16:2,3; De 17:16; Ne 9:17; Ac 7:39

Exodus 14:2-4

that they.

9; 13:17,18; Nu 33:7,8

Pi-hahiroth.{Pi-hachiroth,} "the mouth of Chiroth," as it is rendered by the LXX. Dr. Shaw is of opinion, that Chiroth denotes the valley which extends from the wilderness of Etham to the Red Sea. "This valley," he observes, "ends at the sea in a small bay made by the eastern extremities of the mountains (of Gewoubee and Attackah, between which the valley lies) which I have been describing, and is called Tiah-Beni-Israel, i.e., the road of the Israelites, by a tradition that is still kept up by the Arabs, of their having passed through it; so it is also called Baideah, from the new and unheard of miracle that was wrought near it, by dividing the Red sea, and destroying therein Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen."

Migdol.The word {Migdol} signifies a tower, and hence some have supposed that it was a fortress which served to defend the bay. But the LXX. render it [Magdólos,] Magdolus, which is mentioned by Herodotus, Hecatæus, and others, and is expressly said by Stephanus (de Urb.) to be [polis Aigyptou,] "a city of Egypt." This Bochart conjectures to have been the same as Migdol. See the Parallel Passages.

Jer 44:1; 46:14; Eze 29:10

Heb. Baal-zephon.This may have been the name of a town or city in which Baal was worshipped; and probably called {zephon,} from being situated on the north point of the Red sea, near the present Suez.

Pharaoh.

7:3,4; De 31:21; Ps 139:2,4; Eze 38:10,11,17; Ac 4:28

They are entangled.

Jud 16:2; 1Sa 23:7,23; Ps 3:2; 71:11; Jer 20:10,11

harden.

8,17; 4:21-31; 7:3,13,14; Ro 11:8

I will be.

18; 9:16; 15:10,11,14-16; 18:11; Ne 9:10; Isa 2:11,12; Eze 20:9

Eze 28:22; 39:13; Da 4:30-37; Ro 9:17,22,23; Re 19:1-6

that the Egyptians.

7:5,17

Joshua 6:2-5

the Lord.

5:13-15

See, I have.

9-24; 2:9,24; 8:1; 11:6-8; Jud 11:21; 2Sa 5:19; Ne 9:24; Da 2:21,44

Da 4:17,35; 5:18

the king.

De 7:24; Jud 11:24

ye shall.

7,14; Nu 14:9; 1Co 1:21-25; 2Co 4:7

trumpets of rams'.The words {shopheroth hyyovelim,} should rather be rendered jubilee, trumpets, i.e., such as were used on the jubilee, which were probably made of horn or silver: for the entrance of the Israelites into Canaan was indeed a jubilee to them (See Note on Le 25:11): instead of the dreadful trumpet of war, they were ordered to sound the trumpet of joy, as already conquerors.

Le 25:9; Nu 10:1-10; Jud 7:7,8,15-22; 2Ch 13:12; 20:17,19,21

Isa 27:13; Zec 4:6

seven times.

Ge 2:3; 7:2,3; Le 4:6; 14:16; 25:8; Nu 23:1; 1Ki 18:43; 2Ki 5:10

Job 42:8; Zec 4:2; Re 1:4,20; 5:1,6; 8:2,6; 10:3; 15:1,7; 16:1

make a long.

16,20; Ex 19:19; 2Ch 20:21,22

the people.

Jud 7:20-22; 1Sa 4:5; 17:20,52; 2Ch 13:14,15; Jer 50:15

and the wall.The words {wenaphelah chomath hair tachteyha,} are literally, "and the wall of the city shall fall down under itself;" which appears simply to mean, that the wall shall fall down from its very foundation; which was probably the case in every part, though large breaches in different places might have been amply sufficient first to admit the armed men, after whom the host might enter to destroy the city. There is no ground for the supposition that the walls sunk into the earth.

Isa 25:12; 30:25; 2Co 10:4,5; Heb 11:30

flat. Heb. under it.

Judges 7:2-8

too many.

1Sa 14:6; 2Ch 14:11; Zec 4:6; 12:7; 1Co 1:27-29; 2:4,5; 2Co 4:7

2Co 10:4,5

Israel.

De 32:27; Isa 2:11,17; Jer 9:23; Ro 3:27; 11:18; 1Co 1:29; Eph 2:9

Jas 4:6

Mine own.

De 8:17; Isa 10:13; Eze 28:2,17; Da 4:30; Hab 1:16

Whosoever.

De 20:8; Mt 13:21; Lu 14:25-33; Re 17:14; 21:8

mount Gilead.Gideon was certainly not at mount Gilead, east of Jordan at this time; but rather near mount Gilboa, west of Jordan. Calmet thinks there must either have been two Gileads, which does not appear from Scripture to have been the case, or that the Hebrew text is corrupt, and that for Gilead we should read Gilboa. This reading, though adopted by Houbigant, is not confirmed by an MS. or version. Dr. Hales endeavours to reconcile the whole, by the supposition that in Gideon's army there were many eastern Manassites from mount Gilead, near the Midianites; and therefore proposes to read, "Whosoever from mount Gilead is fearful and afraid, let him return (home) and depart early."

twenty.

Mt 20:16

people.

Ps 33:16

I will.

Ge 22:1; 1Sa 16:7; Job 23:10; Ps 7:9; 66:10; Jer 6:27-30; Mal 3:2,3

lappeth.The original word {yalok,} is precisely the sound which the dog makes in lapping. It appears that it is not unusual for the Arabs to drink water out of the palms of their hands; and, from this account, we learn that the Israelites did so occasionally. Dr. A. Clarke, in his edition of Harmer, has presented us with the following curious MS. note from Dr. Russell. "When they take water with the palms of their hands, they naturally place themselves on their hams, to be nearer the water; but when they drink from a pitcher or gourd, fresh filled, they do not sit down on purpose to drink, but drink standing, and very often put the sleeve of their shirt over the mouth of the vessel, by way of strainer, lest small leeches might have been taken up with the water. For the same reason they often prefer taking the water with the palm of the hand to lapping it from the surface." From the letters of Busbequius we learn, that the Eastern people are not in the habit of drinking standing. The 300 men, who satisfied their thirst in the most expeditious manner, by this sufficiently indicated their spirit, and alacrity to follow Gideon in his dangerous enterprise; while the rest shewed their love of ease, self-indulgence, effeminacy, and want of courage.

18-22; 1Sa 14:6; Isa 41:14-16

trumpets.

3:27; Le 23:24; 25:9; Nu 10:9; Jos 6:4,20; Isa 27:13; 1Co 15:52

in the valley.

6:33

Judges 15:15-16

new jaw-bone. Heb. moist. slew.

3:31; 4:21; 7:16; Le 26:8; Jos 23:10; 1Sa 14:6,14; 17:49,50

1Co 1:27,28

a thousand.Some would render the words {aileph ish,} "a chief;" but it is {alluph,} and not {aileph,} which signifies a chief; besides which, the Hebrew idiom would, even in that case, require it to be {ish alluph,} "a man, a chief," and not {alluph ish,} "a chief, a man." Add to which, that every version renders it "a thousand men."

with the jaw-bone.There is here a fine paronomasia upon the word {chamor,} "an ass," which also signifies "a heap;" {bilchee hachamor, chamor chamorathayim,} "With the jaw-bone of an ass, a heap upon two heaps."

heaps upon heaps. Heb. an heap, two heaps.