Exodus 13:18 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 13:18

So God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the Israelites left the land of Egypt arrayed for battle.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

but God led the people about, by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea: and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.

KJV

But 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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Commentary

4 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

But God led the people about - Dr. Shaw has shown that there were two roads from Egypt to Canaan, one through the valleys of Jendilly, Rumeleah, and Baideah, bounded on each side by the mountains of the lower Thebais; the other lies higher, having the northern range of the mountains of Mocatee running parallel with it on the right hand, and the desert of the Egyptian Arabia, which lies all the way open to the land of the Philistines, to the left. See his account of these encampments at the end of Exodus. See Clarke’s note on Exo 40:

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

God had given it to Moses for a sign, chap. iii, 12, ye shall serve God in this mountain. They had again and again told Pharaoh that they must go three days journey into the wilderness to do sacrifice, and therefore it was requisite they should march that way, else they had justly been exclaimed against as dissemblers.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

There were two ways from Egypt to Canaan. One was a short cut from the north of Egypt to the south of Canaan, perhaps about four or five days' journey; the other was much further about, through the wilderness, and that was the way in which God chose to lead his people Israel,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea, &c.--This wondrous expanse of water is a gulf of the Indian ocean. It was called in Hebrew "the weedy sea," from the forest of marine plants with which it abounds. But the name of the Red Sea is not so easily traced.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיַּסֵּ֨ב	vai.ya.Sev	and he caused to go around	H5437 →
אֱלֹהִ֧ים׀	'E.lo.Him	God	H430 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הָעָ֛ם	ha.'Am	the people	H5971 →
דֶּ֥רֶךְ	De.rekh	[the] way of	H1870 →
הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר	ha.mid.Bar	the wilderness	H4057 →
יַם־	yam-	[the] sea of	H3220 →
ס֑וּף	Suf	reed[s]	H5488 →
וַחֲמֻשִׁ֛ים	va.cha.mu.Shim	and arrayed for battle	H2571 →
עָל֥וּ	'a.Lu	they went up	H5927 →
בְנֵי־	ve.nei-	[the] people of	H1121 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
מֵאֶ֥רֶץ	me.'E.retz	from [the] land of	H776 →
מִצְרָֽיִם׃	mitz.Ra.yim	Egypt	H4714 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Deuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
leads to
- Zechariah 2:8
  For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “After His Glory has sent Me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye—
- Deuteronomy 8:15–16
  He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.
- Hosea 13:5
  I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.
- Psalms 17:8
  Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings
- Psalms 32:7–10
  You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah
Through
Exodus 14:2
“Tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. You are to encamp by the sea, directly opposite Baal-zephon.
leads to
- Numbers 33:7–8
  They set out from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, opposite Baal-zephon, and they camped near Migdol.
- Jeremiah 44:1
  This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews living in the land of Egypt—in Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis—and in the land of Pathros:
Through
Exodus 12:51
And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.
leads to
- Exodus 12:41
  At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD’s divisions went out of the land of Egypt.

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