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Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Exodus 14:2

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Migdol. The great fortress on the "Shur" or wall, built to protect Egypt from Asia. The present geography of the Eastern Delta does not, to day, agree with the Biblical record. But its geography in the nineteenth dynasty is well known from papyri, and is in perfect accord with it, as given in Exodus.

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See also Exodus 14:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 14:2. _ENCAMP BEFORE PI-HAHIROTH_] פי ההירת _pi hachiroth_, the _mouth, strait_, or _bay of Chiroth_. _Between Migdol_, מגדל migdol, the _tower_, probably a fortress that served to defen...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THAT THEY TURN - i. e. away from the wilderness, and go southwards, to the west of the Bitter Lakes, which completely separated them from the desert. PI-HAHIROTH - The place is generally identified wi...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 14 THE PURSUIT OF THE ENEMY AND REDEMPTION BY POWER _ 1. The coming of Pharaoh announced (Exodus 14:1)_ 2. The pursuit and Israel troubled (Exodus 14:5) 3. Moses speaks to the people (Exodu...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 14. (Exodus 14:1 P, Exodus 14:5 f. J, Exodus 14:7 a(b) E, Exodus 14:8 P Exo

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THAT THEY TURN— Dr. Shaw is of opinion, that this expression _to turn,_ &c. may serve to determine the geography of Etham, the second station of the Israelites; whic...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 14And Je-ho-vah spake unto Mo-ses, saying (2) Speak unto the children of Is-ra-el, that they turn back and encamp before Pi-ha-hi-roth, between Mig-dol and the sea, befo...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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._ Speak ... that they turn a...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    CROSSING THE RED SEA 2. At Etham the Israelites reached the Egyptian frontier, travelling in a northeasterly direction. Instead of crossing the frontier to the E. side of the Bitter Lakes they are com...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 14 THE *ISRAELITES CROSS THE RED SEA – VERSES 1-31 *PHARAOH PURSUES T...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    XIV. THE PURSUIT BY PHARAOH AND THE PASSAGE OF THE RED SEA. (2) SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THAT THEY TURN. — The march of the Israelites had been hitherto almost due south-east. They had reach...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    דַּבֵּר֮ אֶל ־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵל֒ וְ יָשֻׁ֗בוּ...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE PEOPLE ARE LED OUT AND PURSUED Exodus 13:17; Exodus 14:1 There were two routes to Canaan, the nearest through the land of the Philistines; but to take that would have exposed the Hebrews to the v...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The first movement of the emancipated people was to march into the place of danger. It eventuated in the trial of their faith, as we shall see, but the divine meaning of it was told to Moses and it is...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Speak unto the children of Israel, that they (a) turn and encamp before (b) Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea. (a) From toward the...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    It is worthy the Reader's closest observation, that the way the Lord commanded Israel to go was contrary to the direct road to Canaan. When they were at Etham in the edge of the wilderness, they were...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    There is hardly a book of the Old Testament that stands out in more decided contrast with the book of Genesis than the one which follows it most closely. And this is the more striking, because God emp...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    At the Red Sea God acts in power according to the purposes of His love; consequently the enemy, who was closely pursuing His people, is destroyed without resource. This is what will happen to the peop...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THAT THEY TURN,.... Not return to Egypt, or to the place, or towards the place from whence they came, but turn off, out of the road in which they were; for, as a lat...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _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._ Ver. 2. _That they turn,_]...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The Lord spake_ Or rather had spoken, before they came to Succoth, Exodus 12:37. For what was there briefly and generally expressed, is here more largely and particularly declared, together with the...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 God instructeth the Israelites in their iourney. 5 Pharaoh pursueth after them. 10 The Israelites murmure. 13 Moses comforteth them. 15 God instructeth Moses. 19 The cloud remoueth behinde the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PHARAOH PURSUES ISRAEL...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Speak unto the children of Israel that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon; before it ye shall encamp by the sea. Instead of proceeding on their...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    FOURTH SECTION Direction of the Exodus. The Pursuit. The Distress. The Red Sea. The Song of Triumph Exodus 13:17 to Exodus 15:21 A. DIRECTION OF THE MARCH. THE DISTRESS. PASSAGE THROUGH THE RED SEA....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE OBSTACLE OF THE RED SEA (vs.1-2) By the Word of the Lord Israel was brought now to a spot from which there was no natural way of escape. The Red Sea was before them, three mountains surrounded t...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-9 Pharaoh would think that all Israel was entangled in the wilderness, and so would become an easy prey. But God says, I will be honoured upon Pharaoh. All men being made for the honour of their Ma...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    PI-HAHIROTH, HEB. _the month of Hiroth, _ i.e. the entrance or straits of Hiroth, two great mountains, between which they marched, and were enclosed on both sides. MIGDOL, a city in Egypt, JEREMIAH 44...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep." (Psalms 107:23-24) How true is this! and yet our coward hearts...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 14:2 Speak H1696 (H8761) children H1121 Israel H3478 turn H7725 (H8799) camp H2583 (H8799) before...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    Exodus 14 . YAHWEH DESTROYS THE FORCES OF EGYPT (EXODUS 14:1). In this chapter we discover how Pharaoh changed his mind and determined to bring the Israelites back. Once the first grieving over the de...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Exodus 14:1 _And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth between Migdol and sea, over against Baalzephon: before it ye shall e...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: God's power exerted to redeem Israel. Passing the Red Sea. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Pharaoh, angel. CONCLUSION: The believer cannot go ahead in the strength of Christ until he has learned t...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 14:2. _Before Pi-hahiroth._ The Lord led the people into the straits between the hills, in order that Pharaoh and his hosts might be overwhelmed in the sea; and that Israel might see his salvat...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Encamp before Pi-hahiroth._ THE GOOD IN THE TRYING SITUATIONS OF LIFE I. That the good are often brought, by the providence of God, into the most trying situations in life (Exodus 14:1). It is in th...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 14:2 The body of water that Israel is about to cross is referred to simply as “THE SEA” in this section. The exact route of the exodus is uncertain, but it is likely that they cr...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 14:2. Pi-hahiroth.] Probably a Coptic word, meaning “the place of sedges”—Gesenius, Fürst, Davies, Kalisch. We can scarcely expect to determine the precise route taken by the I...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE DIRECTION OF THE JOURNEY CHANGED. Hitherto the march of the Israelites had been to the south-east. Another day's journey in this direction would have taken them beyond the limits of Egy...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon: before it shall encamp by th...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    that they Exodus 14:9 Exodus 13:17 Exodus 13:18 Numbers 33:7 Numbers 33:8 Pi-

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    FAITH AS EXEMPLIFIED IN MOSES Selections from Exodus 3:1; Exodus 6:1; Exodus 7:1; Exodus 8:1;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    They were got to the edge of the wilderness, Exodus 13:20, and one stage or two would have brought them to Horeb, the place appointed for their serving God, but instead of going forward, they are orde...

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