Exodus 14:6

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He made ready his chariot, and took his army with him;

King James Version
And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:

Lexham English Bible
And he harnessed his chariot and took with him his people.

New Century Version
So the king prepared his war chariot and took his army with him.

New English Translation
Then he prepared his chariots and took his army with him.

Amplified Bible
So Pharaoh harnessed horses to his war-chariots [for battle] and took his army with him;

New American Standard Bible
So he had horses harnessed to his chariot and took his people with him;

Geneva Bible (1587)
And he made ready his charets, and tooke his people with him,

Legacy Standard Bible
So he made his chariot ready and took his people with him;

Contemporary English Version
The king got his war chariot and army ready.

Complete Jewish Bible
So he prepared his chariots and took his people with him —

Darby Translation
And he yoked his chariot, and took his people with him.

Easy-to-Read Version
So Pharaoh prepared his chariot and took his men with him.

English Standard Version
So he made ready his chariot and took his army with him,

George Lamsa Translation
And he made ready his chariots and took his people with him:

Good News Translation
The king got his war chariot and his army ready.

Christian Standard Bible®
So he got his chariot ready and took his troops with him;

Literal Translation
And he prepared his chariots. And he took his people with him.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he bounde his charettes fast, and toke his people wt him,

American Standard Version
And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:

Bible in Basic English
So he had his war-carriage made ready and took his people with him:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he made redy his charette, and toke his people with hym.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he made ready his chariots, and took his people with him.

King James Version (1611)
And hee made ready his charet, and tooke his people with him.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So Pharao yoked his chariots, and led off all his people with himself:

English Revised Version
And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:

Berean Standard Bible
So Pharaoh prepared his chariot and took his army with him.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Farao ioynede the chare, and took with him al his puple;

Young's Literal Translation
And he harnesseth his chariot, and his people he hath taken with him,

Update Bible Version
And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:

Webster's Bible Translation
And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:

World English Bible
He made ready his chariot, and took his army with him;

New King James Version
So he made ready his chariot and took his people with him.

New Living Translation
So Pharaoh harnessed his chariot and called up his troops.

New Life Bible
So he made his war-wagon ready and took his people with him.

New Revised Standard
So he had his chariot made ready, and took his army with him;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So he yoked his chariot, - and his people, took he with him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So he made ready his chariot, and took all his people with him.

Revised Standard Version
So he made ready his chariot and took his army with him,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So he made his chariot ready and took his people with him;

Contextual Overview

¹ God spoke to Moses: "Tell the Israelites to turn around and make camp at Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. Camp on the shore of the sea opposite Baal Zephon. ³"Pharaoh will think, ‘The Israelites are lost; they're confused. The wilderness has closed in on them.' Then I'll make Pharaoh's heart stubborn again and he'll chase after them. And I'll use Pharaoh and his army to put my Glory on display. Then the Egyptians will realize that I am God ." And that's what happened. ⁵When the king of Egypt was told that the people were gone, he and his servants changed their minds. They said, "What have we done, letting Israel, our slave labor, go free?" So he had his chariots harnessed up and got his army together. He took six hundred of his best chariots, with the rest of the Egyptian chariots and their drivers coming along. ⁸ God made Pharaoh king of Egypt stubborn, determined to chase the Israelites as they walked out on him without even looking back. The Egyptians gave chase and caught up with them where they had made camp by the sea—all Pharaoh's horse-drawn chariots and their riders, all his foot soldiers there at Pi Hahiroth opposite Baal Zephon.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

people: Exodus 14:23, Numbers 21:23, Deuteronomy 2:32, Deuteronomy 3:1

Cross-References

Genesis 16:7
An angel of God found her beside a spring in the desert; it was the spring on the road to Shur. He said, "Hagar, maid of Sarai, what are you doing here?" She said, "I'm running away from Sarai my mistress."

Numbers 13:3
So Moses sent them off from the Wilderness of Paran at the command of God . All of them were leaders in Israel, one from each tribe. These were their names: from Reuben: Shammua son of Zaccur from Simeon: Shaphat son of Hori from Judah: Caleb son of Jephunneh from Issachar: Igal son of Joseph from Ephraim: Hoshea son of Nun from Benjamin: Palti son of Raphu from Zebulun: Gaddiel son of Sodi from Manasseh (a Joseph tribe): Gaddi son of Susi from Dan: Ammiel son of Gemalli from Asher: Sethur son of Michael from Naphtali: Nahbi son of Vophsi from Gad: Geuel son of Maki.

Habakkuk 3:3
God's on his way again, retracing the old salvation route, Coming up from the south through Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Skies are blazing with his splendor, his praises sounding through the earth, His cloud-brightness like dawn, exploding, spreading, forked-lightning shooting from his hand— what power hidden in that fist! Plague marches before him, pestilence at his heels! He stops. He shakes Earth. He looks around. Nations tremble. The age-old mountains fall to pieces; ancient hills collapse like a spent balloon. The paths God takes are older than the oldest mountains and hills. I saw everyone worried, in a panic: Old wilderness adversaries, Cushan and Midian, were terrified, hoping he wouldn't notice them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he made ready his chariot,.... Which he usually rode in when he went forth to war; for this seems to be a military chariot, and not for show or grandeur; and this was got ready not by himself, as Jarchi, but rather by his orders, as Aben Ezra:

and took his people with him; the Greek version reads, "all his people"; not all his subjects, but his soldiers; at least a great number, and especially his cavalry.