Also, he took six hundred choice chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt with captains over every one of them.
Parallel translations
- WEB and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them.
- KJV And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
- BSB He took 600 of the best chariots, and all the other chariots of Egypt, with officers over all of them.
- NASB and he took six hundred select chariots, and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them.
- NLT He took with him 600 of Egypt’s best chariots, along with the rest of the chariots of Egypt, each with its commander.
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Pharaoh deploys six hundred choice chariots plus all Egypt's chariotry under captains, an overwhelming force.
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The catalog of elite military might emphasizes the crushing odds against unarmed-for-battle Israel. Egypt's finest technology and leadership advance to reclaim God's people. By magnifying the enemy's strength, the narrative magnifies the salvation God is about to work without Israel lifting a sword.
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- Exod 15:4He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea. His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.
- Ps 20:7Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust the name of Yahweh our God.
- Ps 68:17The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.
- Judg 4:15Yahweh confused Sisera, all his chariots, and all his army, with the edge of the sword before Barak. Sisera abandoned his chariot and fled away on his feet.
- Isa 37:24By your servants, have you defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field.
- Judg 4:3The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed the children of Israel for twenty years.
- Exod 14:23The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the middle of the sea: all of Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
- Josh 17:16–18The children of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us. All the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth Shean and its towns, and those who are in the valley of Jezreel.”
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