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Contemporary English Version

Exodus 14:6

The king got his war chariot and army ready.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Egypt;   Egyptians;   Impenitence;   Israel;   Readings, Select;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Egypt;   Sciences;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Pharaoh;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Harness;   Red Sea;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Migdol;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ouches;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Armies;   Red Sea;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Exodus, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Moses;   Pi-Hahiroth;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Moses;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for March 20;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He made ready his chariot, and took his army with him;
King James Version
And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:
Lexham English Bible
And he harnessed his chariot and took with him his people.
New Century Version
So the king prepared his war chariot and took his army with him.
New English Translation
Then he prepared his chariots and took his army with him.
Amplified Bible
So Pharaoh harnessed horses to his war-chariots [for battle] and took his army with him;
New American Standard Bible
So he had horses harnessed to his chariot and took his people with him;
Geneva Bible (1587)
And he made ready his charets, and tooke his people with him,
Legacy Standard Bible
So he made his chariot ready and took his people with him;
Complete Jewish Bible
So he prepared his chariots and took his people with him —
Darby Translation
And he yoked his chariot, and took his people with him.
Easy-to-Read Version
So Pharaoh prepared his chariot and took his men with him.
English Standard Version
So he made ready his chariot and took his army with him,
George Lamsa Translation
And he made ready his chariots and took his people with him:
Good News Translation
The king got his war chariot and his army ready.
Christian Standard Bible®
So he got his chariot ready and took his troops with him;
Literal Translation
And he prepared his chariots. And he took his people with him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he bounde his charettes fast, and toke his people wt him,
American Standard Version
And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:
Bible in Basic English
So he had his war-carriage made ready and took his people with him:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he made redy his charette, and toke his people with hym.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he made ready his chariots, and took his people with him.
King James Version (1611)
And hee made ready his charet, and tooke his people with him.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So Pharao yoked his chariots, and led off all his people with himself:
English Revised Version
And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:
Berean Standard Bible
So Pharaoh prepared his chariot and took his army with him.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Farao ioynede the chare, and took with him al his puple;
Young's Literal Translation
And he harnesseth his chariot, and his people he hath taken with him,
Update Bible Version
And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:
Webster's Bible Translation
And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:
World English Bible
He made ready his chariot, and took his army with him;
New King James Version
So he made ready his chariot and took his people with him.
New Living Translation
So Pharaoh harnessed his chariot and called up his troops.
New Life Bible
So he made his war-wagon ready and took his people with him.
New Revised Standard
So he had his chariot made ready, and took his army with him;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So he yoked his chariot, - and his people, took he with him.
Douay-Rheims Bible
So he made ready his chariot, and took all his people with him.
Revised Standard Version
So he made ready his chariot and took his army with him,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So he made his chariot ready and took his people with him;

Contextual Overview

1 At Etham the Lord said to Moses: 2 Tell the people of Israel to turn back and camp across from Pi-Hahiroth near Baal-Zephon, between Migdol and the Red Sea. 3 The king will think they were afraid to cross the desert and that they are wandering around, trying to find another way to leave the country. 4 I will make the king stubborn again, and he will try to catch you. Then I will destroy him and his army. People everywhere will praise me for my victory, and the Egyptians will know that I really am the Lord . The Israelites obeyed the Lord and camped where he told them. 5 When the king of Egypt heard that the Israelites had finally left, he and his officials changed their minds and said, "Look what we have done! We let them get away, and they will no longer be our slaves." 6 The king got his war chariot and army ready. 7 He commanded his officers in charge of his six hundred best chariots and all his other chariots to start after the Israelites. 8 The Lord made the king so stubborn that he went after them, even though the Israelites proudly went on their way. 9 But the king's horses and chariots and soldiers caught up with them while they were camping by the Red Sea near Pi-Hahiroth and Baal-Zephon.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

people: Exodus 14:23, Numbers 21:23, Deuteronomy 2:32, Deuteronomy 3:1

Cross-References

Genesis 14:20
All praise belongs to God Most High for helping you defeat your enemies." Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.
Genesis 16:7
Hagar stopped to rest at a spring in the desert on the road to Shur. While she was there, the angel of the Lord came to her
Genesis 36:8
That's why Esau made his home in the hill country of Seir.
Numbers 10:12
So the Israelites broke camp and left the Sinai Desert. And some time later, the cloud stopped in the Paran Desert.
Numbers 12:16
Then they left Hazeroth and set up camp in the Paran Desert.
Numbers 13:3
So Moses sent twelve tribal leaders from Israel's camp in the Paran Desert
Deuteronomy 2:12
The Horites used to live in Seir, but the Edomites took over that region. They killed many of the Horites and forced the rest of them to leave, just as Israel did to the people in the land that the Lord gave them.
Habakkuk 3:3
You are the same Holy God who came from Teman and Paran to help us. The brightness of your glory covered the heavens, and your praises were heard everywhere on earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he made ready his chariot,.... Which he usually rode in when he went forth to war; for this seems to be a military chariot, and not for show or grandeur; and this was got ready not by himself, as Jarchi, but rather by his orders, as Aben Ezra:

and took his people with him; the Greek version reads, "all his people"; not all his subjects, but his soldiers; at least a great number, and especially his cavalry.


 
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