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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 13:20

Encamped in Etham - As for the reasons assigned on Exodus 13:17 , God would not lead the Israelites by the way of the Philistines' country, he directed them towards the wilderness of Shur, Exodus 15:22 , upon the edge or extremity of which, next to Egypt, at the bottom of the Arabian Gulf, lay Etham, which is the second place of encampment mentioned. See the extracts from Dr. Shaw at the end of Exodus. See Clarke's note on Exodus 40:38 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 13:21

The Lord went before them - That by the Lord here is meant the Lord Jesus, we have the authority of St. Paul to believe, 1 Corinthians 10:9 ; : it was he whose Spirit they tempted in the wilderness, for it was he who led them through the desert to the promised rest. Pillar of a cloud - This pillar or column, which appeared as a cloud by day, and a fire by night, was the symbol of the Divine presence. This was the Shechinah or Divine dwelling place, and was the continual proof of the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 13:22

He took not away the pillar of the cloud - Neither Jews nor Gentiles are agreed how long the cloud continued with the Israelites. It is very probable that it first visited them at Succoth, if it did not accompany them from Rameses; and that it continued with them till they came to the river Jordan, to pass over opposite to Jericho, for after that it appears that the ark alone was their guide, as it always marched at their head. See Joshua 3:10-11 , etc. But others think that it went no... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 13:17

Verse 17 17.And it came to pass when Pharaoh. Moses here assigns the reason why God did not immediately lead His people by the more direct way into the land of Canaan, which would have been just as easy to Him, but preferred to bring them round through the desert, by a long and difficult and dangerous journey; viz., lest, if perhaps they had met with enemies to contend against, a ready means of return would have encouraged them to go back into Egypt. We know how great was the supineness and... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 13:18

Verse 18 18.The children of Israel went up harnessed. The word חמשים, (148) chemishim, is derived from “Five,” from whence some have explained it, that they were furnished with five kinds of arms, but this is too absurd. The Hebrews, because they could conjecture nothing better or more probable, almost with one consent would understand it, that they were armed under the fifth rib. But whence were there so many military corselets ready for the Israelites? But I reject so forced and improbable a... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 13:19

Verse 19 19.And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him. Hence it appears, that even in their adversity the memory of their promised deliverance had never departed from the people, for had not the adjuration of Joseph been currently spoken of in common conversation, Moses would never have been able to imagine it; but he expressly states that he acted in obedience to the holy patriarch in carrying away his bones. It is, therefore, probable that they were so deposited, that the hope of the people... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 13:21

Verse 21 21.And the Lord went before them. Moses here proclaims another of God’s mercies, that, having redeemed His people, He was their constant leader and guide; as the Prophet also in the Psalms distinctly makes reference to both. (Psalms 77:15; and Psalms 78:14.) It was indeed a marvelous act of loving-kindness that, accommodating Himself to their ignorance, he familiarly presented Himself before their eyes. He might, indeed, have protected them in some other way from the heat of the sun,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 13:1-17

The sanctification of the first-born. This command has its basis in the fact that on the night when God executed his tremendous judgment against Egypt, the first-born of Israel was spared. Because this great mercy had been shown to Israel, the first-born of man and beast were ever afterwards to be reckoned as specially belonging to Jehovah. The first-born of the generation then living was his by direct purchase; all later first-borns were to be his by grateful dedication. It was required,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 13:17

Although that was near . Rather "because it was near" ( ὅτι ἐγγὺς ἧν , LXX .)— i.e. ; " God did not, because it was near, lead them this way, but a longer one." Lest peradveature the people repeat when they see war . The Philistines were a powerful and warlike race half a century after this, in the time of Joshua, and were masters of the five important cities of Gaze, Ascalon, Ashdod, Gath, and Ekron, which seem to have formed a confederacy ( Joshua 13:3 ). It would appear... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 13:17-20

Moses, at this point of his narrative, being about to trace the onward march of the Israelites from Succoth to Etham, in the direction of the Red Sea, anticipated, it would seem, an objection on the part of his reader, who would naturally ask, Why was not the direct route eastward taken and Canaan entered on the south-west after some half-dozen marches? In Exodus 13:17 , Exodus 13:18 , he gives the reply— 1 . God led them, they did not determine their own route; and 2. God... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 13:20

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 13:21

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 13:22

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 13:17

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 13:18

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 13:19

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 13:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 13:1-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 13:17

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 13:17-20

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