Exodus 14:2
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| Overview - 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. |
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Exodus 14:2 (King James Version)
Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea.
- that they
- 9 ; Exodus 13:17 Exodus 13:18 Numbers 33:7 Numbers 33:8
- 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 [Magdlos,] Magdolus, which is mentioned by Herodotus, Hecatus, 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.
- Jeremiah 44:1 ; 46:14 Ezekiel 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.