Bible Commentaries

the Lord spake

12:1, 13:1

that they

9, 13:17,18, Numbers 33:7,8

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 [Magdólos] Magdolus, which is mentioned by Herodotus, Hecatæus, 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.

Pharaoh

7:3,4, Deuteronomy 31:21, Psalms 139:2,4, Ezekiel 38:10,11,17, Acts 4:28

They are entangled

Judges 16:2, 1 Samuel 23:7,23, Psalms 3:2, 71:11, Jeremiah 20:10,11

harden

8,17, 4:21-31, 7:3,13,14, Romans 11:8

I will be

18, 9:16, 15:10,11,14-16, 18:11, Nehemiah 9:10, Isaiah 2:11,12, Ezekiel 20:9, Ezekiel 28:22, 39:13, Daniel 4:30-37, Romans 9:17,22,23, Revelation 19:1-6

that the Egyptians

7:5,17

and the heart

12:33, Psalms 105:25

Why have we

Jeremiah 34:10-17, Luke 11:24-26, 2 Peter 2:20-22

people: Exodus 14:23; Numbers 21:23; Deuteronomy 2:32, Deuteronomy 3:1

23, 15:4, Joshua 17:16-18, Judges 4:3,15, Psalms 20:7, 68:17, Isaiah 37:24

the Lord

with an high hand

6:1, 13:9,16,18, Numbers 33:3, Deuteronomy 26:8, 32:27, Psalms 86:13, Acts 13:17

the Egyptians

15:9, Joshua 24:6

encamping

sore afraid

Psalms 53:5, Isaiah 7:2, 8:12,13, 51:12,13, Matthew 8:26, 14:30,31, 1 John 4:18

cried out

Joshua 24:7, 2 Chronicles 18:31, Nehemiah 9:9, Psalms 34:17, 106:44, 107:6,13,19,28, Isaiah 26:16, Jeremiah 22:23, Matthew 8:25

Because

15:23,24, 16:2,3, 17:2,3, Numbers 11:1, 14:1-4, 16:41, Psalms 106:7,8

wherefore

5:22, Genesis 43:6, Numbers 11:15

Is not this

5:21, 3:9

Let us alone

Hosea 4:17, Mark 1:24, 5:7,17,18

For it had

Jonah 4:3,8

Fear ye not

Numbers 14:9, Deuteronomy 20:3, 2 Kings 6:16, 2 Chronicles 20:15,17, Psalms 27:1,2, 46:1-3, Isaiah 26:3, 30:15, 35:4, 41:10-14, Matthew 28:5

see the

30, 15:1-27, Genesis 49:18, 1 Chronicles 11:14, Psalms 3:8, Isaiah 43:11, Jeremiah 3:23, Lamentations 3:26, Hosea 13:4,9, Habakkuk 3:8,13

for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day

or, for whereas ye have seen the Egyptians to-day, etc. ye shall see.

30, 15:4,5,10,19,21, Nehemiah 9:9

the Lord

25, 15:3, Deuteronomy 1:30, 3:22, 20:4, Joshua 10:10,14,42, 23:3,10, Judges 5:20, 2 Chronicles 20:17,29, Nehemiah 4:20, Isaiah 31:4,5

hold

Psalms 50:3, 83:1, Isaiah 30:15

17:4, Joshua 7:10, Ezra 10:4,5, Nehemiah 9:9

lift

21,26, 4:2,17,20, 7:9,19

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 Clysmæ; which was that which the Israelites passed.

and the

21,22

I, behold

Genesis 6:17, 9:9, Leviticus 26:28, Deuteronomy 32:39, Isaiah 48:15, 51:12, Jeremiah 23:39, Ezekiel 5:8, 6:3, 34:11,20, Hosea 5:14

I will

8, 4:23, 7:3,13,14

and I will

See on ver

4, 7:5,17

the angel

24, 13:21, 23:20,21, 32:34, Numbers 20:16, Isaiah 63:9

and the pillar

13:21,22

Psalms 18:11, Proverbs 4:18,19, Isaiah 8:14, 2 Corinthians 2:15,16

stretched

the Lord

15:8, Joshua 3:13-16, 4:23, Nehemiah 9:11, Job 26:12, Psalms 66:6, 74:13, Psalms 78:13, 106:7-10, 114:3-5, 136:13, Isaiah 51:10,15, 63:12

the children

29, 15:19, Numbers 33:8, Psalms 66:6, 78:13, Isaiah 63:13, 1 Corinthians 10:1, Hebrews 11:29

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.

a wall

15:8, Habakkuk 3:8-10, Zechariah 2:5

17, 15:9,19, 1 Kings 22:20, Ecclesiastes 9:3, Isaiah 14:24-27

that in the

1 Samuel 11:11

looked unto

Job 40:12, Psalms 18:13,14, 77:16-19, 104:32

through

19,20

and troubled

25, Job 22:13, 23:15,16, 34:20,29, Psalms 48:5

took off

Judges 4:15, Psalms 46:9, 76:6, Jeremiah 51:21

that they drave them heavily

or, and made them to go heavily. Let us flee.

Job 11:20, 20:24, 27:22, Psalms 68:12, Amos 1:14, 5:19, 9:1

for the Lord

14, Deuteronomy 3:22, 1 Samuel 4:7,8

Stretch out

16, 7:19, 8:5, Matthew 8:27

the waters

1:22, Judges 1:6,7, Matthew 7:2, James 2:13, Revelation 16:6

and the sea

21,22, 15:1-21, Joshua 4:18

Lord

Judges 5:20,21

overthrew

Heb. shook off.

the waters

15:10, Deuteronomy 11:4, Nehemiah 9:11, Psalms 78:53, Habakkuk 3:8-10,13, Hebrews 11:29

remained

13, 2 Chronicles 20:24, Psalms 106:9-11, 136:15

walked

22, Job 38:8-11, Psalms 66:6,7, 77:19,20, 78:52,53, Isaiah 43:2, Isaiah 51:10,13, 63:12,13

a wall

Joshua 3:16

the Lord

13, 1 Samuel 14:23, 2 Chronicles 32:22, Psalms 106:8,10, Isaiah 63:9, Jude 1:5

saw

Psalms 58:10, 59:10, 91:8, 92:9-11

work

Heb. hand. feared.

1 Samuel 12:18, Psalms 119:120

believed

4:31, 19:9, 2 Chronicles 20:20, Psalms 106:12,13, Luke 8:13, John 2:11,23-25, John 8:30-32, 11:45, Acts 8:13