And sent an angel— We have, in various parts of the preceding commentary, shewn, that this was the great Angel of the Covenant, or the Messiah. See Exodus 3:2; Exodus 14:19; Exodus 14:31. The word fields, in the next verse, means the cultivated lands; and the whole offer of the Israelites is, that they would pass through peaceably and quietly, without injury to any public or private property.
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Numbers 20:16
16 And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border: