Exodus 14:3
“For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.”
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pi–hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baal–zephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea.
For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord. And they did so.
And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?
Counter-Arguments
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Cross-References
“But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.”
“Thus saith the Lord God; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?”
“Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.”
“Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.”
“For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.”