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Exodus 2:24
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. He had, of course, never forgotten it, but He took occasion to reflect and to act upon it.
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. He had, of course, never forgotten it, but He took occasion to reflect and to act upon it.
Verse Exodus 2:24. _GOD REMEMBERED HIS COVENANT_] God's covenant is God's engagement; he had promised to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give their posterity a land flowing with milk and honey, c...
REMEMBERED - This means that God was moved by their prayers to give effect to the covenant, of which an essential condition was the faith and contrition involved in the act of supplication. The whole...
2. MOSES THE CHOSEN DELIVERER CHAPTER 2 Moses: His Birth, Education, Choice, and Exile _ 1. His birth and concealment (Exodus 2:1)_ 2. His rescue and education (Exodus 2:5) 3. His choice and failu...
EXODUS 2:23 TO EXODUS 3:15. THE CALL OF MOSES ( FIRST ACCOUNT). Exodus 2:23_ a_, J, Exodus 2:23 _b_ -...
GROANING. Hebrew. _na'ak,_ denoting heaviest affliction. Note the Figure of speech _Synonymia:_ heard... remembered... looked... had respect. _Anaphora:_ with... with... with; see note, Genesis 50:24,...
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 2 And there went a man of the house of Le-vi, and took to wife a daughter of Le-vi. (2) And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodl...
BIRTH AND EARLY LIFE OF MOSES 1. The names of the father and mother of Moses were Amram and Jochebed respectively (see Exodus 6:20). Two children were born to them before Moses. The oldest was a daugh...
HIS COVENANT] see Genesis 12:7; Genesis 15:18; Genesis 17:1; Genesis 26:3;...
EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 2 Chapter 2 shows how God used women again. They became part of God’s...
וַ יִּשְׁמַ֥ע אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶת ־נַאֲקָתָ֑ם וַ יּ
CHAPTER III. _ THE BURNING BUSH._ Exodus 2:23 - Exodus 3:1 "In process of time the king of Egypt died," probably the great Raamses, no other of whose dynasty had a reign which extended over the indi...
MOSES SLAYS AN EGYPTIAN AND FLEES TO MIDIAN Exodus 2:11 Amid all the allurements of Pharaoh's court, the heart of Moses beat true to his own people. Neither the treasures of Egypt, nor the pleasures...
Here begins the story of Moses. When Pharaoh was beginning to take active steps to oppress the people, God brought to birth the man who was to break Egypt's power. A mother's love is seen scheming for...
Observe the process of grace. God's covenant is the cause of divine mercy: God remembers this: God hears the oppressed cry: God looks upon his people: God hath respect thereto. Reader! never lose sigh...
There is hardly a book of the Old Testament that stands out in more decided contrast with the book of Genesis than the one which follows it most closely. And this is the more striking, because God emp...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2. First, we have the historical circumstances which relate to the captivity of Israel-the persecutions which this people had to endure, and the provide...
AND GOD HEARD THEIR GROANING,.... The petitions they put up to him with groans and cries: AND GOD REMEMBERED HIS COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM, WITH ISAAC, AND WITH JACOB; that he would bring their seed out...
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. Ver. 24. _God heard their groaning._] Yea, their breathing. Lam 3:56 Men's very misery cries to...
_And God heard their groaning_ That is, he made it to appear that he took notice of their complaints. The groans of the oppressed cry loud in the ears of the righteous God, to whom vengeance belongs;...
1 Moses is borne, 3 and in an arke cast into the flags. 5 He is found, and brought vp by Pharaohs daughter. 11 He slayeth an Egyptian. 13 He reproueth an Hebrew. 15 He fleeth into Midian. 21 Hee...
B. THE BIRTH AND MIRACULOUS PRESERVATION OF MOSES. HIS ELEVATION AND FIDELITY TO THE ISRAELITES. HIS TYPICAL ACT OF DELIVERANCE AND APPARENTLY FINAL DISAPPEARANCE. GOD’S CONTINUED PURPOSE TO RELEASE I...
THE BIRTH AND PROTECTION OF MOSES (vs.1-10) God's hand of overruling power and grace is seen beautifully in this chapter. There is nothing spectacular, but an incident takes place that would be norma...
23-25 The Israelites' bondage in Egypt continued, though the murdering of their infants did not continue. Sometimes the Lord suffers the rod of the wicked to lie very long and very heavy on the lot o...
No text from Poole on this verse....
This section of our book abounds in the weightiest principles of divine truth principles, which range themselves under the three following heads, namely, the power of Satan, the power of God, and the...
Exodus 2:24 God H430 heard H8085 (H8799) groaning H5009 God H430 remembered H2142 (H8799) covenant H1285 Abraham...
CONDITIONS IN EGYPT - THE COVENANT REMEMBERED (EXODUS 2:23) But meanwhile in Egypt time passed, and the death of a new king probably raised hopes of more leniency. However, it was seemingly not to be...
CONTENTS: Deliverer prepared for Israel. Moses' birth, boyhood and marriage. CHARACTERS: Levi's daughter, Pharaoh's daughter, mother of Moses, sister, Moses, Pharaoh, seven daughters of priests, shep...
Exodus 2:1. _Took to wife._ Amram married Jochebed, his father's sister, as in Exodus 6:20; that is, as the scriptures often afford example, his father's relation. But doubts may be entertained of Jos...
_Sighed by reason of the bondage._ THE BONDAGE OF THE ISRAELITES The Israelites were to be a witnessing nation--a nation in which the worship of the true God was to be maintained, while other nations...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 2:23 The Lord does not view the offspring of ABRAHAM, ISAAC, and JACOB in terms of their years of slavery in Egypt but in terms of their...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 2:24 REMEMBERED. See note on Gen. 8:1. ⇐...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 2:23; Exodus 2:25_ THE KING DYING, THE PEOPLE SUFFERING, GOD REIGNING Whether this king was the same as the one mentioned in Exodus 1:8 is uncertain. Probab...
EXPOSITION. Exodus 2:23-2 DEATH OF THE PHARAOH FROM WHOM MOSES FLED — CONTINUANCE OF THE OPPRESSION OF ISRAEL-ISRAEL'S...
There went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him for three months (Exod...
God heard. Exodus 6:5 Judges 2:18 Nehemiah 9:27 Nehemiah 9:28 Psalms 22:5...
MOSES' PREMATURE EFFORT Exodus 2:11 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Acts 7:1 tells us that Moses was forty years of age when he sought to deliver Israel from the bondage of Pharaoh. We wish, therefore, to base o...
And God heard their groaning — That is, he made it to appear that he took notice of their complaints. The groans of the oppressed cry loud in the ears of the righteous God, to whom vengeance belongs;...