^j.5 Geographical Ohfervations 



Tharaoh clofed up the Valley behind them with his Chariots 

 and Horfemen. This Valley ends, at the Sea, in a fmall Bay, 

 made by the Eaftern Extremities of the Mountains I have 

 defcribed: and is called {Tiah [%^] Benilfrael) The Road of 

 the Ifraelites, (from a Tradition, kept up by the yirahs to this 

 Day, of their having paiTed through it ; ) and Baideah [<*a^ ' 

 perhaps] from the new and unheard όϊ Miracle that was wrought 

 near it, by dividing the Red Sea and deftroying therein Vha- 

 raoh^ his Chariots and his Horfemen. 

 Pibahhiroth. The third notable Encampment then of the Ifraelites^ was 

 at this Bay. It was to be before [π'Π'ππ»^] Pibahhiroth, be- 

 twixt Migdol and the Sea, over again β [niji-b;?^] Baal-tzephon. 

 Ex. ΐφ. 1. and in Numb. gg. η. it was to be before Migdol ; 

 where the Word [>jab] Liphne being applyed alike to them 

 both, may fignify no more than that they pitched within Sight 

 of, or at a fmall Diftance from either the one or the other of 

 Baai-tze- them. Now whcthcr Baal-tzephon may have Relation to the 

 ^^''°' northern ^ Situation of the Place itfelf, or to fome Watch Tower 

 or Tdol Temple that was erected upon it ; we may, in all Proba- 

 bility, take it for the eaftern Extremity of the Mountains of 

 Suez, the moft confpicuous of thefe Deferts, which commands 

 the View of a great Part of the Lower Thebais, as well as of 

 the Wildernefs that reaches towards the Land of the Thiliflines. 

 Migdol. Migdol, I fuppofe, lay to the South, as Baal-tzephon did to 

 the North of this Station. For the Marches of the Ifraelites, 

 from the Edge of the Wildernefs, being to the Seaward, i e. to- 

 wards the S. E. their Encampments betwixt Migdol and the 

 Sea, or before Migdol, as it is otherwife noted, could not well 

 have another Situation. 

 pihahhiroth, Tihahhiroth, or Hhiroth rather, may have a more general 

 o/Hh?otii Signification, denoting the Valley, or that whole Space of 

 Ground, which extended itfelf from the Edge of the Wilder- 

 nefs to the Red Sea. For that particular Part only of this 



I xixyi {&η 1^ cjLi novae & mirabilis rei conditorj Cafus novus & inaudkus. Gol. 

 2 pSlC is rendred the Nbrf/;, Exod.2(i.20. ^οβ.^.ιι. and in other Places of Scripture. 

 Accordingly Baal-tzephon may be interpreted the God or Idol oftbcNortb, in Contradiltindion 

 perhaps to others of the Lower Theba'n, whofe Places of Worihip were to the S. or E. If 

 Tzephon be related to nsi; to fpy out or obferve, then B.ial-tzepbon will probably fignify the 

 God of the Watch Tower or the Guardian God, fuch as was rhe Hermes or Terminus of the 

 Rofnans, the ΈφΌςοί Qtlf of the Greeks &c. The Wor^ipping upon Mountains is mentioned 

 I Kings 14. 23. Jer. 2. 20. &c. The Persians woriliipped, '£Vt τα ^^«λίτατα ^ Ιξίαν imCtu. 

 focTtf. Herod. CI. ?. 131. Hebraicc eft, Dominus Specula, quod oftendit loca ilia edita fuiiTe 

 & prarupta. Memch. in locum. Vid. Seld. de D. Sjr. Cap. 3. Synt. i. 



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