Numbers 33:7 (BSB)

They set out from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, opposite Baal-zephon, and they camped near Migdol.

From Numbers 33. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 33:7

  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 33:7: And they removed from Etham, and turned again to Pihahiroth,.... Which was sixteen miles from Etham. This turning, Aben Ezra says, respects the cloud, or Israel; and indeed it may respect both, for, as the cloud turned, Israel turned, being directed by it; and this does not mean that they had been at Pihahiroth before, and now returned to it again; but that they by...
  • Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Numbers 33:7: Pi-hahiroth, Baal-zephon . . . Migdol--(See on Exo 14:2).
  • Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Numbers 33:7: And they removed from Etham, and turned again unto Pihahiroth, which [is] before Baalzephon: and they pitched before Migdol. (c) At the commandment of the Lord in .
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 33:1-15: Num 33:1-15 The first and second verses form the heading: “These are the marches of the children of Israel, which they marched out,” i.e., the marches which they made from one place to another, on going out of Egypt. מסּע does not mean a station, but the breaking up of a camp, and then a train, or march (see at Exo 12:37, and Gen 13:3). לצבאתם (see Exo 7:4).