Exodus 14:3

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Pharaoh will think regarding the Israelites,‘They are wandering around confused in the land– the desert has closed in on them.’

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  • Exod 7:3-4 : 3 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and although I will multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt, 4 Pharaoh will not listen to you. I will reach into Egypt and bring out my regiments, my people the Israelites, from the land of Egypt with great acts of judgment.
  • Deut 31:21 : 21 Then when many disasters and distresses overcome them this song will testify against them, for their descendants will not forget it. I know the intentions they have in mind today, even before I bring them to the land I have promised.”
  • Judg 16:2 : 2 The Gazites were told,“Samson has come here!” So they surrounded the town and hid all night at the city gate, waiting for him to leave. They relaxed all night, thinking,“He will not leave until morning comes; then we will kill him!”
  • 1 Sam 23:7 : 7 When Saul was told that David had come to Keilah, Saul said,“God has delivered him into my hand, for he has boxed himself into a corner by entering a city with two barred gates.”
  • 1 Sam 23:23 : 23 Locate precisely all the places where he hides and return to me with dependable information. Then I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will find him among all the thousands of Judah.”
  • Ps 3:2 : 2 Many say about me,“God will not deliver him.”(Selah)
  • Ps 71:11 : 11 They say,“God has abandoned him. Run and seize him, for there is no one who will rescue him!”
  • Ps 139:2 : 2 You know when I sit down and when I get up; even from far away you understand my motives.
  • Ps 139:4 : 4 Certainly my tongue does not frame a word without you, O LORD, being thoroughly aware of it.
  • Jer 20:10-11 : 10 I hear many whispering words of intrigue against me. Those who would cause me terror are everywhere! They are saying,“Come on, let’s publicly denounce him!” All my so-called friends are just watching for something that would lead to my downfall. They say,“Perhaps he can be enticed into slipping up, so we can prevail over him and get our revenge on him. 11 But the LORD is with me to help me like an awe-inspiring warrior. Therefore those who persecute me will fail and will not prevail over me. They will be thoroughly disgraced because they did not succeed. Their disgrace will never be forgotten.
  • Ezek 38:10-11 : 10 “‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan. 11 You will say,“I will invade a land of unwalled towns; I will advance against those living quietly in security– all of them living without walls and barred gates–
  • Ezek 38:17 : 17 “‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days that I would bring you against them?
  • Acts 4:28 : 28 to do as much as your power and your plan had decided beforehand would happen.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 14:1-2
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    82%

    1The Victory at the Red Sea The LORD spoke to Moses:

    2“Tell the Israelites that they must turn and camp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea; you are to camp by the sea before Baal Zephon opposite it.

  • Exod 14:8-13
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    82%

    8But the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he chased after the Israelites. Now the Israelites were going out defiantly.

    9The Egyptians chased after them, and all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh and his horsemen and his army overtook them camping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal Zephon.

    10When Pharaoh got closer, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians marching after them, and they were terrified. The Israelites cried out to the LORD,

    11and they said to Moses,“Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert? What in the world have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

    12Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt,‘Leave us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians, because it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!’”

    13Moses said to the people,“Do not fear! Stand firm and see the salvation of the LORD that he will provide for you today; for the Egyptians that you see today you will never, ever see again.

  • Exod 14:4-6
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    79%

    4I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will chase after them. I will gain honor because of Pharaoh and because of all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.” So this is what they did.

    5When it was reported to the king of Egypt that the people had fled, the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people, and the king and his servants said,“What in the world have we done? For we have released the people of Israel from serving us!”

    6Then he prepared his chariots and took his army with him.

  • Exod 14:15-18
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    79%

    15The LORD said to Moses,“Why do you cry out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.

    16And as for you, lift up your staff and extend your hand toward the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites may go through the middle of the sea on dry ground.

    17And as for me, I am going to harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will come after them, that I may be honored because of Pharaoh and his army and his chariots and his horsemen.

    18And the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I have gained my honor because of Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”

  • Exod 14:21-26
    6 verses
    78%

    21Moses stretched out his hand toward the sea, and the LORD drove the sea apart by a strong east wind all that night, and he made the sea into dry land, and the water was divided.

    22So the Israelites went through the middle of the sea on dry ground, the water forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.

    23The Egyptians chased them and followed them into the middle of the sea– all the horses of Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.

    24In the morning watch the LORD looked down on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian army into a panic.

    25He jammed the wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving, and the Egyptians said,“Let’s flee from Israel, for the LORD fights for them against Egypt!”

    26The LORD said to Moses,“Extend your hand toward the sea, so that the waters may flow back on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen!”

  • Exod 13:17-18
    2 verses
    78%

    17The Leading of God When Pharaoh released the people, God did not lead them by the way to the land of the Philistines, although that was nearby, for God said,“Lest the people change their minds and return to Egypt when they experience war.”

    18So God brought the people around by the way of the wilderness to the Red Sea, and the Israelites went up from the land of Egypt prepared for battle.

  • Exod 14:29-31
    3 verses
    76%

    29But the Israelites walked on dry ground in the middle of the sea, the water forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.

    30So the LORD saved Israel on that day from the power of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore of the sea.

    31When Israel saw the great power that the LORD had exercised over the Egyptians, they feared the LORD, and they believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses.

  • Num 14:13-14
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    76%

    13Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–

    14then they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, LORD, are among this people, that you, LORD, are seen face to face, that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.

  • Exod 3:9-10
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    75%

    9And now indeed the cry of the Israelites has come to me, and I have also seen how severely the Egyptians oppress them.

    10So now go, and I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”

  • Exod 11:10
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    10So Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not release the Israelites from his land.

  • Exod 7:3-5
    3 verses
    75%

    3But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and although I will multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt,

    4Pharaoh will not listen to you. I will reach into Egypt and bring out my regiments, my people the Israelites, from the land of Egypt with great acts of judgment.

    5Then the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD, when I extend my hand over Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.

  • Exod 15:19
    74%

    19For the horses of Pharaoh came with his chariots and his footmen into the sea, and the LORD brought back the waters of the sea on them, but the Israelites walked on dry land in the middle of the sea.”

  • Exod 6:11
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    11“Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt that he must release the Israelites from his land.”

  • Exod 10:20
    74%

    20But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not release the Israelites.

  • Num 33:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7They traveled from Etham, and turned again to Pi-hahiroth, which is before Baal-Zephon; and they camped before Migdal.

    8They traveled from Pi-hahiroth, and passed through the middle of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and camped in Marah.

  • Deut 1:40
    73%

    40But as for you, turn back and head for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”

  • Exod 6:13
    73%

    13The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge for the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.

  • Exod 3:20
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    20So I will extend my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders that I will do among them, and after that he will release you.

  • Exod 3:18
    73%

    18“The elders will listen to you, and then you and the elders of Israel must go to the king of Egypt and tell him,‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’

  • Isa 30:3
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    3But Pharaoh’s protection will bring you nothing but shame, and the safety of Egypt’s protective shade nothing but humiliation.

  • Exod 15:4
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    4The chariots of Pharaoh and his army he has thrown into the sea, and his chosen officers were drowned in the Red Sea.

  • Exod 7:14
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    14The First Blow: Water to Blood The LORD said to Moses,“Pharaoh’s heart is hard; he refuses to release the people.

  • Exod 9:35
    73%

    35So Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he did not release the Israelites, as the LORD had predicted through Moses.

  • Exod 5:3
    73%

    3And they said,“The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Let us go a three-day journey into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God, so that he does not strike us with plague or the sword.”

  • Exod 1:13
    73%

    13and they made the Israelites serve rigorously.