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Barnes' Notes on Psalms 114:1

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Albert Barnes (1798–1870) · 19th-century historical commentary
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When Israel went out of Egypt - literally, “In the going out of Israel from Egypt.” This is not to be confined to the exact act of the exodus, but embraces all that properly entered into that migration - the whole train of events which resuited in their being brought into the promised land. The house of Jacob - The family of Jacob - a name appropriately used here, since it was the family of Jacob that had gone down into Egypt, and that had increased to these great numbers. From a people of strange language - Speaking a foreign or a barbarian tongue. See the notes at Psalms 81:5. return to 'Top of Page'
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