18But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.
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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.
And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness. …
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but ye shall pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and help them;
And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-22)Here is, I. The choice God made of their way, Exod. 13:17 , 18 . He was their guide. Moses gave them direction but as he received it from the Lord. Note, The way of man is not in himself, Jer. 10:23. He may devise his way , and design it; but, after all, it is God that directs his steps , Prov. 16:9. Man proposes, but God disposes, and in his disposal we must acquiesce, and set ourselves to follow…
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