Exodus 1:1-7
THE RAPID GROWTH OF THE PEOPLE... [ Continue Reading ]
THE RAPID GROWTH OF THE PEOPLE... [ Continue Reading ]
Now these are the names of the children of Israel which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob:... [ Continue Reading ]
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,... [ Continue Reading ]
Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,... [ Continue Reading ]
Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.... [ Continue Reading ]
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; for Joseph was in Egypt already. The order is: the sons of Leah, the son of Rachel, the sons of Rachel's handmaid, the sons of Leah's handmaid. As in Genesis 46:27, SEVENTY SOULS ARE MENTIONED AS THE FOREFATHERS OF THE CHILDRE... [ Continue Reading ]
And Joseph died, and all his brethren and all that generation. Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten years, Genesis 50:26, apparently the first one of the brothers to be taken away; but he was soon followed by the other members of his own generation, Levy dying about twenty years after him,... [ Continue Reading ]
And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them. The heaping of the expressions, five different terms being used to emphasize this point, indicates the extraordinary growth of the people, a factor broug... [ Continue Reading ]
Now there arose up a new king over Egypt which knew not Joseph. The expression "arose up" indicates either that the new Pharaoh adopted entirely new policies with reference to the strange people within the boundaries of his land, or that a new dynasty was founded by conquest or by the overthrow of t... [ Continue Reading ]
PHARAOH PLANS TO CURB THE GROWTH... [ Continue Reading ]
And he said unto his people, to the high officials and representatives of the people, who were his counselors, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. This was an exaggeration to emphasize the unwelcome growth of the Israelites which showed the abject fear of the... [ Continue Reading ]
Come on, let us deal wisely with them, make use of political sagacity combined with despotic craftiness and malice, LEST THEY MULTIPLY, AND IT COME TO PASS THAT, WHEN THERE FALLETH OUT ANY WAR, THEY JOIN ALSO UNTO OUR ENEMIES, AND FIGHT AGAINST US, AND SO GET THEM UP OUT OF THE LAND. The children of... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. The counselors advised impressing the Israelites into peonage, practically into slavery, by setting officers over them, the purpose being to enfeeble the people, both in body and mind, by enforced labor, to take the hea... [ Continue Reading ]
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. God spoiled the success of the Egyptians' plans by continuing to bless the Israelites in spite of all the measures intended to destroy their fruitfulness. AND THEY WERE GRIEVED BECAUSE OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. They were not merel... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor;... [ Continue Reading ]
and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar and in brick and in all manner of service in the field; all their service wherein they made them serve was with rigor. Chagrined at the failure of their first plan, the Egyptians added ill treatment and cruelty to oppression. Two new form... [ Continue Reading ]
And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah, their names being recorded to their lasting honor;... [ Continue Reading ]
THE COMMAND TO KILL ALL THE MALE CHILDREN... [ Continue Reading ]
and he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools, in determining the sex; IF IT BE A SON, THEN YE SHALL KILL HIM, the male children should be killed right after birth; BUT IF IT BE A DAUGHTER, THEN SHE SHALL LIVE. Whether these two women were the only... [ Continue Reading ]
But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive. They placed the reverential fear of God before the slavish fear of the tyrant.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, he stormed at them with an angry cry, AND SAID UNTO THEM, WHY HAVE YE DONE THIS THING, AND HAVE SAVED THE MEN CHILDREN ALIVE?... [ Continue Reading ]
And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, full of life and energy, AND ARE DELIVERED ERE THE MIDWIVES COME IN UNTO THEM. This was not a mere evasion or deception, but agreed with the general experience, although in this case art... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore God dealt well with the midwives, gave them evidence of His goodness; AND THE PEOPLE MULTIPLIED, AND WAXED VERY MIGHTY under their ministrations, the remarkable growth of the children of Israel continued.... [ Continue Reading ]
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that He made them houses. He blessed them with abundant prosperity.... [ Continue Reading ]
And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born (to the Hebrews) YE SHALL CAST INTO THE RIVER (Nile), AND EVERY DAUGHTER YE SHALL SAVE ALIVE. Since his first plan had failed, he made use of open, violent brutality in not only giving permission, but even a command that his people m... [ Continue Reading ]