Exo 14 | TSK | STEP | God instructs the Israelites in their journey. Pharaoh pursues after them. The Israelites murmur. Moses comforts them. God instructs Moses. The cloud removes behind the camp. The Israelites pass through the Red sea, which drowns the Egyptians. the Lord spake.

Exodus 14

1 God instructs the Israelites in their journey.

5 Pharaoh pursues after them.

10 The Israelites murmur.

13 Moses comforts them.

15 God instructs Moses.

19 The cloud removes behind the camp.

21 The Israelites pass through the Red sea, which drowns the Egyptians.

the Lord spake.

12:1; 13:1

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

and the heart.

12:33; Ps 105:25

Why have we.

Jer 34:10-17; Lu 11:24-26; 2Pe 2:20-22

23; 15:4; Jos 17:16-18; Jud 4:3,15; Ps 20:7; 68:17; Isa 37:24

the Lord.

with an high hand.

6:1; 13:9,16,18; Nu 33:3; De 26:8; 32:27; Ps 86:13; Ac 13:17

the Egyptians.

15:9; Jos 24:6

encamping.

sore afraid.

Ps 53:5; Isa 7:2; 8:12,13; 51:12,13; Mt 8:26; 14:30,31; 1Jo 4:18

cried out.

Jos 24:7; 2Ch 18:31; Ne 9:9; Ps 34:17; 106:44; 107:6,13,19,28

Isa 26:16; Jer 22:23; Mt 8:25

Because.

15:23,24; 16:2,3; 17:2,3; Nu 11:1; 14:1-4; 16:41; Ps 106:7,8

wherefore.

5:22; Ge 43:6; Nu 11:15

Is not this.

5:21; 3:9

Let us alone.

Ho 4:17; Mr 1:24; 5:7,17,18

For it had.

Jon 4:3,8

Fear ye not.

Nu 14:9; De 20:3; 2Ki 6:16; 2Ch 20:15,17; Ps 27:1,2; 46:1-3

Isa 26:3; 30:15; 35:4; 41:10-14; Mt 28:5

see the.

30; 15:1-27; Ge 49:18; 1Ch 11:14; Ps 3:8; Isa 43:11; Jer 3:23

La 3:26; Ho 13:4,9; Hab 3:8,13

for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day. or, for whereasye have seen the Egyptians to-day, etc. ye shall see.

30; 15:4,5,10,19,21; Ne 9:9

the Lord.

25; 15:3; De 1:30; 3:22; 20:4; Jos 10:10,14,42; 23:3,10; Jud 5:20

2Ch 20:17,29; Ne 4:20; Isa 31:4,5

hold.

Ps 50:3; 83:1; Isa 30:15

17:4; Jos 7:10; Ezr 10:4,5; Ne 9:9

lift.

21,26; 4:2,17,20; 7:9,19

the sea.This sea was what is called in Scripture {yam suph,} "the sea of weeds;" so called, according to Mr. Bruce, from the vast quantity of coral which grows in it. In the LXX. it is called [thalassa erythra,] and by the Latins {Rubrum mare,} and we from them the Red Sea; so called it is supposed, from {Edom} (red) or Esau, whose territories extend to its coasts. It separates Arabia from Egypt and Ethiopia, and is computed to be 150 leagues in length from Suez to the straits of Babelmandel. The upper part is divided into two gulfs, that to the East called the Elanitic, from the city Elana at the northern extremity, and that to the west, the Heroopolitic, from the city of Heroopolis. The former is called by the Arabians Bahr el Akaba, the sea of Akaba; and the latter Bahr el Kolzum, the sea of destruction, or Clysmæ; which was that which the Israelites passed.

and the.

21,22

I, behold.

Ge 6:17; 9:9; Le 26:28; De 32:39; Isa 48:15; 51:12; Jer 23:39

Eze 5:8; 6:3; 34:11,20; Ho 5:14

I will.

8; 4:23; 7:3,13,14

and I will.

See on ver.

4; 7:5,17

the angel.

24; 13:21; 23:20,21; 32:34; Nu 20:16; Isa 63:9

and the pillar.

13:21,22

Ps 18:11; Pr 4:18,19; Isa 8:14; 2Co 2:15,16

stretched.

the Lord.

15:8; Jos 3:13-16; 4:23; Ne 9:11; Job 26:12; Ps 66:6; 74:13

Ps 78:13; 106:7-10; 114:3-5; 136:13; Isa 51:10,15; 63:12

the children.

29; 15:19; Nu 33:8; Ps 66:6; 78:13; Isa 63:13; 1Co 10:1; Heb 11:29

and the waters.This verse demonstrates that this event was wholly miraculous, and cannot be ascribed, as some have supposed, to an extraordinary ebb, which happened just then to be produced by a strong east wind: for this would not have caused the waters, contrary to every law of fluids, to stand as a wall on the right hand and the left.

a wall.

15:8; Hab 3:8-10; Zec 2:5

17; 15:9,19; 1Ki 22:20; Ec 9:3; Isa 14:24-27

that in the.

1Sa 11:11

looked unto.

Job 40:12; Ps 18:13,14; 77:16-19; 104:32

through.

19,20

and troubled.

25; Job 22:13; 23:15,16; 34:20,29; Ps 48:5

took off.