Now therefore know certainly
Or, "in knowing know" F4; they might assure themselves of
this, that it would certainly come to pass, and most justly and
deservedly; since it was at their own request the prophet sought
the mind of the Lord for them, and had faithfully related it to
them, and they had promised to observe it; wherefore, should they
go into Egypt, as their inclination scented to be entirely that
way, they must expect what follows: that ye shall die by
the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence;
by one or other of these, or all of them; some by one, and some
by another, as before threatened; evils they thought to escape by
going thither, but which should surely follow them, and overtake
them: in the place whither ye desire to go [and] to
sojourn;
that is, in Egypt, to which they had a strong inclination, where
they greatly desired to be, pleased themselves with the thoughts
of, and which they chose of their own will and pleasure for their
habitation.