"For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They {are} entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in." — Exodus 14:3

Exodus 14:3 · KJV

“For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They {are} entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.”

— Exodus 14:3

Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea.

Verse 4

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.

Exodus 14 — Context

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon: 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?

Cross References

Acts 4:28

For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

Ezekiel 38:10-11

Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, {that} at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: {think...: or, conceive a mischievous purpose}

Psalms 71:11

Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for {there is} none to deliver {him}.

Jeremiah 20:10-11

For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, {say they}, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, {saying}, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him. {All...: Heb. Every man of my peace}

Exodus 7:3-4

And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

1 Samuel 23:7

And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.

Ezekiel 38:17

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? {by: Heb. by the hand of}

Psalms 139:2

Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.