Exodus 14:3

And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are wandering without direction, they are shut in by the waste land.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.

In Context

2Give orders to the children of Israel to go back and put up their tents before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon, opposite to which you are to put up your tents by the sea.

4And I will make Pharaoh's heart hard, and he will come after them and I will be honoured over Pharaoh and all his army, so that the Egyptians may see that I am the Lord. And they did so.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 31:21Then when evils and troubles without number have overtaken them, this song will be a witness to them, for the words of it will be clear in the memories of their children: for I see the thoughts which are moving in their hearts even now, before I have taken them into the land of my oath.

1 Samuel 23:7And news was given to Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, Now God has given him into my hands; for by going into a walled town with locked doors, he has let himself be shut in.

Psalms 3:2\3:1\Lord, how greatly are they increased who make attacks on me! in great numbers they come against me.

Psalms 139:2You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.

Jeremiah 20:10For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

Ezekiel 38:17This is what the Lord has said: You are he of whom I gave them word in earlier times by my servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those days went on saying, year after year, that I would make you come up against them.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 14:2-10

The Israelites Pursued by Pharaoh. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baal-zephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea. 3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in. 4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that… Read the whole commentary →

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