That the Lord thy God may show us the way wherein we may
walk,
&c.] Not the way of their duty as to religious worship, or
their moral conversation, which was the way of God's
commandments, and had been shown them, and they knew it; but
which way they should steer their course for their safety; they
had departed from Mizpah of themselves, and had taken up their
dwelling at Geruthchimham, in the way to Egypt; whither they had
set their faces, and where their hearts were, only they wanted
the Lord's sanction for it, pretending they would be directed by
him: and the thing that we should do;
the steps they should take in order to proceed; and what they
should do before they left their own country, and went into
another.