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Exodus
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The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal Zephon. You shall encamp opposite it by the sea. See also: Jeremiah 44:1Numbers 33:7-8Exodus 13:17-18Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.’ See also: Acts 4:28Ezekiel 38:17Psalms 139:4I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD.” They did so. See also: Romans 9:22-23Exodus 7:5Romans 9:17The king of Egypt was told that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?” See also: Psalms 105:25Exodus 12:33Luke 11:24-26He prepared his chariot, and took his army with him; and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, with captains over all of them. See also: Psalms 20:7Exodus 15:4Judges 4:3The LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand. See also: Acts 13:17Numbers 33:3Exodus 13:16The Egyptians pursued them. All the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon. See also: Exodus 15:9Joshua 24:6Exodus 14:2When Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to the LORD. See also: Psalms 107:6Joshua 24:7Psalms 34:17They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt? See also: Psalms 106:7-8Numbers 14:1-4Exodus 15:23-24Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.” See also: Jonah 4:3Jonah 4:8Exodus 6:9Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will work for you today; for you will never again see the Egyptians whom you have seen today. See also: 2 Chronicles 20:172 Chronicles 20:15Exodus 14:30The LORD will fight for you, and you shall be still.” See also: Deuteronomy 3:22Deuteronomy 20:42 Chronicles 20:17The LORD said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward. See also: Joshua 7:10Ezra 10:4-5Exodus 17:4Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. Then the children of Israel shall go into the middle of the sea on dry ground. See also: Exodus 7:19Exodus 4:2Exodus 4:17Behold, I myself will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they will go in after them. I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen. See also: Exodus 14:8Exodus 14:4Ezekiel 34:11The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD when I have gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.” See also: Exodus 7:5Exodus 7:17Exodus 14:4The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them. See also: Isaiah 63:9Exodus 32:34Exodus 23:20-21It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. There was the cloud and the darkness, yet it gave light by night. One didn’t come near the other all night. See also: Isaiah 8:142 Corinthians 2:15-16Proverbs 4:18-19Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. See also: Isaiah 63:12Psalms 66:6Exodus 15:8The children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground; and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. See also: Hebrews 11:29Exodus 15:19Psalms 66:6The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the middle of the sea: all of Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. See also: Exodus 15:19Exodus 14:171 Kings 22:20In the morning watch, the LORD looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army. See also: Exodus 13:21Psalms 77:16-19Exodus 14:25He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from the face of Israel, for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians!” See also: Exodus 14:141 Samuel 4:7-8Job 20:24The LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.” See also: Exodus 14:16Exodus 8:5Revelation 16:6Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. The LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea. See also: Joshua 4:18Psalms 78:53Hebrews 11:29The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them. See also: Psalms 78:53Psalms 106:9-11Psalms 136:15But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. See also: Exodus 14:22Job 38:8-11Joshua 3:16Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. See also: Psalms 106:8Psalms 106:10Psalms 92:9-11Israel saw the great work which the LORD did to the Egyptians, and the people feared the LORD; and they believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses. See also: John 2:11John 11:45Psalms 106:12-13
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)16 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Exodus 14:1
Ver. 1. Beelsephon, means "the lord of the watch-tower." Some think an idol was thus denominated, whose office it was to prevent people from quitting the country. How vain were his efforts against God's people!
↑ 1Exodus 14:3
Ver. 3. In. Between craggy mountains and the Red Sea. H.
↑ 3Exodus 14:4
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 4. And he will. Protestants falsely translate, "that he may," &c. contrary to the Heb. and other versions. W.
↑ 4Exodus 14:6
Ver. 6. People, fit for war, who could be got ready on such short warning.
Ezechiel (ap. Eus.) makes the number amount to a million.
↑ 6Exodus 14:7
Ver. 7. Captains. Sept. "Tristatas." Three men rode on every chariot, which was armed with scythes, to cut down all that came within contact, the chief warrior, with his armour bearer and charioteer. S. Greg. Nys. H. --- Or these three captains may very probably be the three chief officers of state, (C.) or the generals of cavalry, and of infantry, and the chief treasurer, or receiver of taxes, principes equitum peditumque erant, & tributorum. S. Jer.
↑ 7Exodus 14:8
Ver. 8. Hand. Without any dread. Num. xv. 30. C. --- All the army of Egypt could do nothing against them. Yet presently, at their approach, the Hebrews were suffered to fall into dismay, that they might learn not to confide in their multitudes, and might pray with greater earnestness for protection, v. 10.
↑ 8Exodus 14:12
Ver. 12. Wilderness. This is the language of dastardly souls. They had begun to be almost in love with their chains. Every difficulty gives them occasion to repine at the gracious purposes of God, and the exertions of his servant Moses. But God bears patiently with the defects of a carnal and long-oppressed nation. H. v. 13. --- The wiser sort pray to God, while others thus upbraid Moses.
↑ 12Exodus 14:13
Ver. 13. Ever. They saw their floating carcasses the following morning. Heb.
"you shall not see the Egyptians any more as you see them at present." They were not in the same condition.
↑ 13Exodus 14:14
Ver. 14. Peace. You will not have to draw a sword. The Syriac subjoins,
"Therefore Moses cried unto the Lord," which connects this with the following verse. C.
↑ 14Exodus 14:15
Ver. 15. Criest. --- "A vehement desire is a cry, which reaches the ears of the Lord." S. Bern.
↑ 15Exodus 14:17
Ver. 17. To pursue. God did not restrain the perverse will of the Egyptians; but suffered them to be guided by their blind passions, and to rush presumptuously into the bed of the sea. If the retiring of its waters had been owing to any natural cause, this wise nation could not be ignorant but that, at the stated time, the ebbing would cease, and consequently that they would be overtaken by the waters. But the waters stood up like walls on both sides, and they were so infatuated as to suppose that the miracle would be continued for their protection. H.
↑ 17Exodus 14:20
Ver. 20. A dark cloud, and enlightening the night. It was a dark cloud to the Egyptians; but enlightened the night to the Israelites, by giving them a great light.
↑ 20Exodus 14:21
Ver. 21. Wind. This served to dry up the sandy channel of the Red Sea, which was mixed with mud and weeds. It blew from the east, Kodim, or from Arabia.
--- Divided, some say into 12
parts or divisions, Ps. cxxxv. 13. But the words of the psalmist may be verified by the sea opening a spacious passage, such as was requisite for so many millions to travel through, (H.) e.g.
a distance of perhaps 18 miles, in so short a space of time. Silara Adrichomius thinks the breadth of the division would not be less than nine miles.
↑ 21Exodus 14:24
Ver. 24. Watch. About four o'clock. The Hebrews divided the night into three equal parts, (C.) or four, consisting each of three hours, (M.) which varied in length as the night was longer. H. ---
Slew many by his thunderbolts, as Artapanus relates, and the Scripture elsewhere insinuates. C.
xv. 6. 12. Ps. lxxvi. 16. 18. Josep. ii. 7.
↑ 24Exodus 14:25
Ver. 25. Lord. thus they reluctantly confess his might, and are forced to glory Him in their destruction. Their change is only the effect of fear and temporal danger, v. 18. H.
↑ 25Exodus 14:31
Ver. 31. Sea-shore. The Hebrews would thus again be enriched by their spoils.
C. --- Servant.
Those who believe God, submit to the directions of his ambassadors. S. Jerom in Philem. 5. In this merited catastrophe of the Egyptians, which fixed the last seal to the mission of Moses, the fathers contemplate how God's servants are rescued by baptism, and by the merits of Jesus Christ, from Satan and from all sin. 1 Cor. x. 1. 4. Orig. hom. 5. H.
↑ 31License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses