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     # 9; 13:17,18; Nu 33:7,8|
     * Pi-hahiroth.
       {Pi-hachiroth,} "the mouth of Chiroth," as it is rendered by
       the LXX.  Dr. Shaw is of opinion, that Chiroth denotes the
       valley which extends from the wilderness of Etham to the Red
       Sea.  "This valley," he observes, "ends at the sea in a small
       bay made by the eastern extremities of the mountains (of
       Gewoubee and Attackah, between which the valley lies) which I
       have been describing, and is called Tiah-Beni-Israel, i.e.,
       the road of the Israelites, by a tradition that is still kept
       up by the Arabs, of their having passed through it; so it is
       also called Baideah, from the new and unheard of miracle that
       was wrought near it, by dividing the Red sea, and destroying
       therein Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen."

     * Migdol.
       The word {Migdol} signifies a tower, and hence some have
       supposed that it was a fortress which served to defend the
       bay.  But the LXX. render it [Magd▍os,] Magdolus, which is
       mentioned by Herodotus, Hecat(9175)s, and others, and is expressly
       said by Stephanus (de Urb.) to be [polis Aigyptou,] "a city of
       Egypt."  This Bochart conjectures to have been the same as
       Migdol.  See the Parallel Passages.

     # Jer 44:1; 46:14; Eze 29:10|
     * Heb. Baal-zephon.
       This may have been the name of a town or city in which Baal
       was worshipped; and probably called {zephon,} from being
       situated on the north point of the Red sea, near the present
       Suez.