Exodus 14:3

And Pharao will say to his people, As for these children of Israel, they are wandering in the land, for the wilderness has shut them in.

LXX2012 (US 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

2Speak to the children of Israel, and let them turn and encamp before the village, between Magdol and the sea, opposite Beel-sepphon: before them shall you encamp by the sea.

4And I will harden the heart of Pharao, and he shall pursue after them; and I will be glorified in Pharao, and in all his host, and all the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord. And they did so.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 31:21And this song shall stand up to witness against them; for they shall not forget it out of their mouth, or out of the mouth of their seed; for I know their wickedness, what they are doing here this day, before I have brought them into the good land, which I swore to their fathers.

1 Samuel 23:7And it was told Saul that David was come to Keila: and Saul said, God has sold him into my hands, for he is shut up, having entered into a city that has gates and bars.

Psalms 3:2Many say concerning my soul, There is no deliverance for him in his God. + 3:2 The word Διάψαλμα (Selah) has been rendered Pause, as most intelligible to the English reader. Pause. 1

Psalms 139:2Who have devised injustice in their hearts; all the day they prepared war. 1

Jeremiah 20:10For I have heard the reproach of many gathering round, saying, Conspire you⌃, and let us conspire together against him, even all his friends: watch his intentions, if perhaps he shall be deceived, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall be avenged on him.

Ezekiel 38:17Thus says the Lord God, to Gog; You are he concerning whom I spoke in former times, by the hand of my servants the prophets of Israel, in those days and years, that I would bring you 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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