Exodus 14:5

Translations

Modern

When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.”

Traditional

And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?

Literal

And it was told to the king of Egypt that the people had fled, and the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people, and they said, “What is this that we have done, that we have sent out Israel from serving us?”

Latin

Et nuntiatum est regi Ægyptiorum quod fugisset populus: immutatumque est cor Pharaonis et servorum ejus super populo, et dixerunt: Quid voluimus facere ut dimitteremus Israël, ne serviret nobis?

Original

Hebrew

English

When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.”

Notes

Exodus 14:5–14

Pharaoh and his officials did not truly repent. Once the immediate fear faded, they focused on their own interests and they determined to recapture their slave labor.

Theme notes and profiles

Egypt Moses Pharaoh The Cross and Passover

Events

Wilderness Wanderingsc. 1491 BC

Related verses

Psalm 105:25
…whose hearts He turned to hate His people, to conspire against His servants.
Exodus 12:33
And in order to send them out of the land quickly, the Egyptians urged the people on. “For otherwise,” they said, “we are all going to die!”
Jeremiah 34:10–17
So all the officials and all the people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their menservants and maidservants and no longer hold them in bondage. They obeyed and released them,
Luke 11:24–26
When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’
2 Peter 2:20–22
If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.

People

Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes Pharaoh: Egyptian Pharaoh during the Exodus

Places

Egypt: Ancient nation; Israelites enslaved there; plagues and Exodus

Glossary

Baal-zephon Book of Exodus Chronology of the Bible (New Testament) Deuteronomy, Book of Hardness of Heart Miracle

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities: Penitence in Pharaoh Afflictions and Adversities: Pharaoh Character: Instability: Pharaoh Egypt: Israel in Pharaoh Pursues Israel and is Miraculously Destroyed Egypt: The Country of: Army of Destroyed in the Red Sea Egyptians: Pursue Israelites, and the Army of, Destroyed Government: Mosaic: Among the Egyptians Impenitence: Pharaoh Instability: General Scriptures Concerning Israel: Pursued by the Egyptians Select Readings: The Deliverance of the Israelites from Pharaoh

Exodus 14:5

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