But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up equipped for battle out of the land of Egypt.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Armed, in order of battle. Hebrew chamushim, "by fives "or in five battalions. (Josue i. 14; Judges viii. 11.) (Calmet)
Calvin asks where the Hebrews could procure arms, as if to cavil with this translation. But surely they might get them in the same manner as the vessels of gold; and they undoubtedly were not destitute of arms when they encountered the Amalecites, ver. 17. (Haydock)
