3For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: …
For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him. …
Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)We have here, I. Instructions given to Moses concerning Israel’s motions and encampments, which were so very surprising that if Moses had not express orders about them before they would scarcely have been persuaded to follow the pillar of cloud and fire. That therefore there might be no scruple nor dissatisfaction about it, Moses is told before, 1. Whither they must go, Exod. 14:1 , 2 . They had g…
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