Exodus 14:3

Nova Vulgata

Dicturusque est pharao super filiis Israel: "Errant in terra, conclusit eos desertum".

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Omnes hi convenerunt in vallem Silvestrem, qu� nunc est mare salis.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Dicturusque est Pharao super filiis Isra�l: Coarctati sunt in terra; conclusit eos desertum.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Pharaoh: Exodus 7:3, Exodus 7:4, Deuteronomy 31:21, Psalms 139:2, Psalms 139:4, Ezekiel 38:10, Ezekiel 38:11, Ezekiel 38:17, Acts 4:28

They are entangled: Judges 16:2, 1 Samuel 23:7, 1 Samuel 23:23, Psalms 3:2, Psalms 71:11, Jeremiah 20:10, Jeremiah 20:11

Reciprocal: Joshua 8:6 - They flee Judges 15:14 - the Philistines 2 Chronicles 32:14 - your God Jeremiah 34:11 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel,.... The Septuagint version adds, "to his people", his ministers and courtiers, when he hears where they are:

they are entangled in the land; have lost their way, and got into places they cannot easily get out of, and are perplexed in their minds, and do not know what way to take or course to steer:

the wilderness hath shut them in; or, "shut up the way to them" n; the wilderness between the mountains the above mentioned traveller speaks of o the mountains of Gewoubee; these would stop their flight or progress to the southward, as those of the Attackah would do the same towards the land of the Philistines; the Red sea likewise lay before them to the east, while Pharaoh (could) close up the valley behind them, with his chariots and his horsemen; and which, no doubt, appeared very advantageous and encouraging to him, as it must be very distressing to the Israelites.

n סגר עליהם "clausit viam illis", Pagninus, "praeclusit sese illis", Vatablus. o Dr. Shaw's Travels, p. 309. Ed. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They are entangled ... - The original intention of Moses was to go toward Palestine by the wilderness: when that purpose was changed by God’s direction and they moved southwards, Pharaoh, on receiving information, was of course aware that they were completely shut in, since the waters of the Red Sea then extended to the Bitter Lakes. It is known that the Red Sea at some remote period extended considerably further toward the north than it does at present. In the time of Moses the water north of Kolsum joined the Bitter Lakes, though at present the constant accumulation of sand has covered the intervening space to the extent of 8000 to 10,000 yards.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 14:3. They are entangled in the land — God himself brought them into straits from which no human power or art could extricate them. Consider their situation when once brought out of the open country, where alone they had room either to fight or fly. Now they had the Red Sea before them, Pharaoh and his host behind them, and on their right and left hand fortresses of the Egyptians to prevent their escape; nor had they one boat or transport prepared for their passage! If they be now saved, the arm of the Lord must be seen, and the vanity and nullity of the Egyptian idols be demonstrated. By bringing them into such a situation he took from them all hope of human help, and gave their adversaries every advantage against them, so that they themselves said, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.