Exodus Chapter 14 verse 3 Holy Bible
And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
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And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are wandering without direction, they are shut in by the waste land.
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And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness has hemmed them in.
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For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
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For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
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Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, 'They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.'
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and Pharaoh hath said of the sons of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut upon them;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - They are entangled in the land. Or "they are confused," "perplexed" - i.e.. "they have lost their way." Pharaoh could not conceive that they would have taken the route to the west of the Bitter Lakes, which conducted to no tolerable territory, unless they were hopelessly at sea with respect to the geography of the country. In this "perplexity" of theirs he thought he saw his own opportunity. The wilderness hath shut them in. Pharaoh is thinking of his own "wilderness," the desert country between the Nile valley and the Red Sea. This desert, he says, "blocks their way, and shuts them in " - they cannot escape if he follows in their steps, for they will have the sea on one hand, the desert on the other, and in their front, while he himself presses upon their rear.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) Entangled in the land.--Literally, confused, perplexed. (Comp. Esther 3:15.) Pharaoh, seeing that the Israelites had placed the Bitter Lakes on their left, and were marching southward, in a direction which would soon put the Red Sea on one side of them and a desert region--that about the Jebel Atakah--on the other, thought that they must be quite ignorant of the geography, and have, as it were, "lost their way." He observed, moreover, that "the wilderness had shut them in." The desert tract between the Nile Valley and the Red Sea lay upon their left and in their front: they would soon be unable to proceed, and would not know which way to turn.
