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.
Lord spoke <01696 03068> [the Lord spake.]
turn <07725> [that they.]
Pi-hahiroth <06367> [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 <04024> [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 [Magd¢los,] Magdolus, which is mentioned by Herodotus, Hecat‘us, 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.
[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 <06547> [Pharaoh.]
wandering <0943> [They are entangled.]
harden <02388> [harden.]
honor <03513> [I will be.]
<04714> [that the Egyptians.]
heart <03824> [and the heart.]
done <06213> [Why have we.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
defiantly <07311 03027> [with an high hand.]
<04714> [the Egyptians.]
camping <02583> [encamping.]
were terrified <03372 03966> [sore afraid.]
cried out <06817> [cried out.]
graves <06913> [Because.]
<02063> [wherefore.]
what <01697> [Is not this.]
alone <02308> [Let us alone.]
better <02896> [For it had.]
fear Stand <03372 03320> [Fear ye not.]
see ... salvation ................. see ....... see <07200 03444> [see the.]
see ............. today ....... see today ...... see <04714 07200 03117 05704> [for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day. or, for whereas ye have seen the Egyptians to-day, etc. ye shall see.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
still <02790> [hold.]
lift up <07311> [lift.]
sea ................ sea <03220> [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 Clysm‘; which was that which the Israelites passed.
Israelites <01121> [and the.]
harden <02388> [I, behold.]
harden .................. honored <02388 03513> [I will.]
honored <03513> [and I will.]
[See on ver.]
angel <04397> [the angel.]
pillar <05982> [and the pillar.]
stretched <05186> [stretched.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
Israelites <01121> [the children.]
water <04325> [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.
wall <02346> [a wall.]
morning <01242> [that in the.]
looked ...... army .............. army <08259 04264> [looked unto.]
pillar <05982> [through.]
panic <02000> [and troubled.]
<05493> [took off.]
difficulty <05090 03517> [that they drave them heavily. or, and made them to go heavily. Let us flee.]
Lord <03068> [for the Lord.]
Extend <05186> [Stretch out.]
waters <04325> [the waters.]
sea .... sea ............................... sea <03220> [and the sea.]
Lord <03068> [Lord.]
overthrew <05287> [overthrew. Heb. shook off.]
water <04325> [the waters.]
survived <07604> [remained.]
walked <01980> [walked.]
wall <02346> [a wall.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
saw <07200> [saw.]
power <03027> [work. Heb. hand. feared.]
believed <0539> [believed.]
