But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
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Gill's Exposition
And he led them on safely,.... Through the sea, where the waters were on each side; and through the wilderness, in which were serpents and scorpions, and where they were attacked by many powerful…
Barnes' Notes
But made his own people to go forth like sheep ... - That is, he was a shepherd to them. He defended them; provided for them; led them - as a shepherd does his flock. See the notes at Psa 23:1-2.
The matter and scope of this paragraph are the same with the former, showing what great mercies God had bestowed upon Israel, how provoking they had been, what judgments he had brought upon them for…
God's guidance of Israel through the wilderness into Canaan. Cp. Exo 15:13-17. The circumstances of the Journey have been already recounted in Psa 78:78 ff.
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