Judges - 11:16



16 but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh;

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But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;
But when they came up out of Egypt, he walked through the desert to the Red Sea and came into Cades.
but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel walked through the wilderness unto the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh;
for in their coming up out of Egypt, Israel goeth in the wilderness unto the Red Sea, and cometh in to Kadesh,
But when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the waste land to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh;
but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Sea of Suf, and came to Kadesh;
But when they ascended together from Egypt, he walked through the desert as far as the Red Sea, and he went into Kadesh.

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But when Israel came up from Egypt,.... In order to go to the land of Canaan, which was higher than the land of Egypt, which lay low (k):
and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea; which is to be understood not of their walking to it; when they first came out of Egypt, they indeed then came to the edge of the wilderness of Etham, and so to the Red sea, and walked through it as on dry land, and came into the wilderness of Shur, Sin, and Sinai; and after their departure from Mount Sinai they came into the wilderness of Paran, in which they were thirty eight years; and this is the wilderness meant they walked through, and came to Eziongaber, on the shore of the Red sea, Numbers 33:35.
and came to Kadesh; not Kadeshbarnea, from whence the spies were sent, but Kadesh on the borders of Edom, from whence messengers were sent to the king of it, as follows.
(k) Theocrit. Idyll. 17. ver. 79.

The Red - sea - Unto which they came three times; once, Exodus 13:18, again, a little after their passage over it, and a third time, long after, when they came to Ezion Geber, which was upon the shore of the Red - Sea, from whence they went to Kadesh; of this time he speaks here.

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