They traveled from Etham, and turned back to Pihahiroth, which is before Baal Zephon, and they encamped before Migdol.
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They traveled from Etham, and turned back to Pihahiroth, which is before Baal Zephon, and they encamped before Migdol.
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And they removed from Etham, and turned again unto Pi-hahiroth, which is before Baal-zephon: and they pitched before Migdol.
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And they journeyed from Etham, and turned back unto Pihahiroth, which is before Baal-zephon; and they pitched before Migdol.
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Passages linked to Numbers 33:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 14:2 “Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal Zephon. You shall encamp opposite it by the sea.
- Exodus 14:9 The Egyptians pursued them. All the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.
- Numbers 33:8 They traveled from before Hahiroth, and crossed through the middle of the sea into the wilderness. They went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain At the commandment of the Lord, Exod. 14:2.
At the commandment of the Lord, Exod. 14:2.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And they removed from Etham, and turned again to…
And they removed from Etham, and turned again to Pihahiroth,.... Which was sixteen miles from Etham. This turning, Aben Ezra says, respects the cloud, or Israel; and indeed it may respect both, for, as the cloud turned, Israel turned, being directed by it; and this does not mean that they had been at Pihahiroth before, and now returned to it again; but that they by direction turned out of the straight way in which they were to go to Pihahiroth; for the word "again" may as well, or better, be left out; see Gill on Exo 14:2,
which is before Baalzephon; the name of an idol, as the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem, supposed to be placed here, to watch and guard the passage, as Zephon signifies:
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and they pitched before Migdol: which was either the name of a city, the same with Migdol, Jer 44:1 or it was a tower, as the word signifies, placed here on the borders of the land, for the defence of it.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 7. PI-HAHIROTH] See on Ex 14:1; Ex 14:2.…
STAT. III.
Verse 7. PI-HAHIROTH] See on Ex 14:1; Ex 14:2. Baal-zephon Calmet supposes to be the Clysma of the Greeks, and the Kolzum of the Arabians.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Beelsephon; perhaps the city of Clysma, or Colzan, where…
Beelsephon; perhaps the city of Clysma, or Colzan, where the Hebrews crossed the sea.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Pi-hahiroth, Baal-zephon . . . Migdol--(See on Exo 14:2).
Pi-hahiroth, Baal-zephon . . . Migdol--(See on Exo 14:2).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 7. Pi-hahiroth,… Baal-zephon:… Migdol — See Introduction to Exodus…
7. Pi-hahiroth,… Baal-zephon:… Migdol — See Introduction to Exodus xiv, and note on Num_33:2-3 of the same chapter.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Pi-hahiroth. Hebrew, "Hahi-roth," without the prefix. See on Exo_14:2.
Pi-hahiroth. Hebrew, "Hahi-roth," without the prefix. See on Exo_14:2.
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