Exodo 13:18

Filipino Cebuano Bible

18 Apan gimandoan sa Dios ang katawohan sa paglibot pinaagi sa kamingawan duol sa dagat nga Mapula. Ug mitungas nga may mga hinagiban ang mga anak sa Israel gawas sa Egipto.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

led the: Exodus 14:2, Numbers 33:6-8, Deuteronomy 32:10, Psalms 107:7

harnessed: or, by five in a rank, Exodus 12:51

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:18 - three days' Exodus 6:26 - armies Exodus 10:19 - the Red sea Exodus 14:8 - with an high hand Numbers 33:1 - with their armies Joshua 1:14 - armed Judges 7:11 - armed men 1 Kings 20:11 - harness Psalms 136:16 - General Ezekiel 20:10 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But God led the people about,.... Instead of their going to the west, or northwest, towards Gaza, c. and the Mediterranean sea, the Lord going before them in a pillar of cloud and fire, as after related, directed them to turn off to the right, between the east and south, to the southeast:

through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: the wilderness of Etham, by the Red sea:

and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt or "girt" m about the loins under the fifth rib not with armour, as some n understand it, for it is not likely that they could, or that Pharaoh would suffer them to be furnished with armour, but their garments were girt about them, and so fit for travelling; or they went up "by fives" o, as it may be rendered, either by five in a rank, or rather in five bodies or squadrons, and so marched out, not in a disorderly and confused way, but in great order and regularity. The latter is much more reasonable to suppose, for five in a rank is too small a number for an army of 600,000 men to march in; since allowing the ranks to be but three feet asunder, and a mile to consist of about two thousand yards, the front and rear of the army would be sixty miles distant from each other p.

m חמשים "accincti", Fagninus, Vatablus, Cartwright; so Onkelos, Aben Ezra. n Kimchi & Pen Melech. o "Quintati", Montanus: "quini", Piscater, Rivet. p See the Bishop of Clogher's Chronology of the Hebrew Bible, p. 272.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Harnessed - More probably, “marshalled” or “in orderly array.” There is not the least indication that the Israelites had been disarmed by the Egyptians, and as occupying a frontier district frequently assailed by the nomads of the desert they would of necessity be accustomed to the use of arms. Compare Exodus 1:10.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 13:18. 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. Exodus 40:38.

Went up harnessed — חמשים chamushim. It is truly astonishing what a great variety of opinions are entertained relative to the meaning of this word. After having maturely considered all that I have met with on the subject, I think it probable that the word refers simply to that orderly or well arranged manner in which the Israelites commenced their journey from Egypt. For to arrange, array, or set in order, seems to be the ideal meaning of the word חמש chamash. As it was natural to expect that in such circumstances there must have been much hurry and confusion, the inspired writer particularly marks the contrary, to show that God had so disposed matters that the utmost regularity and order prevailed; and had it been otherwise, thousands of men, women, and children must have been trodden to death. Our margin has it by five in a rank; but had they marched only five abreast, supposing only one yard for each rank to move in, it would have required not less than sixty-eight miles for even the 600,000 to proceed on regularly in this way; for 600,000 divided by five gives 120,000 ranks of five each; and there being only 1,760 yards in a mile, the dividing 120,000 by 1,760 will give the number of miles such a column of people would take up, which by such an operation will be found to be something more than sixty-eight miles. But this the circumstances of the history will by no means admit.-Harmer. The simple meaning therefore appears to be that given above; and if the note on the concluding verse of the preceding chapter be considered, it may serve to place this explanation in a still clearer point of view.