He slew the Egyptian — Probably it was one of the Egyptian task — masters, whom he found abusing his Hebrew slave. By special warrant from heaven (which makes not a precedent in ordinary cases) Moses slew the Egyptian, and rescued his oppressed brother. The Jew's tradition is, that he did not slay him with any weapon, but as Peter slew Ananias and Sapphira, with the word of his mouth.
The slaying of the Egyptian is not to be justified, or attributed to a divine inspiration, but it is to be judged with reference to the provocation, the impetuosity of Moses’ natural character, perhap...
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 2:11 J. MOSES'S FLIGHT TO MIDIAN. Here is interposed an incident from J, who uses the same word grow (contrast Exodus 2:10) of Moses reaching man's estate, interpreted in Acts 7:23 as 40 years...
HE SAW THAT THERE WAS NO MAN: i.e. to help. Compare same words in Isaiah 59:16; Isaiah 63:5, and context there....
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...
_AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE DAYS, WHEN MOSES WAS GROWN, THAT HE WENT OUT UNTO HIS BRETHREN, AND LOOKED ON THEIR BURDENS: AND HE SPIED AN EGYPTIAN SMITING AN HEBREW, ONE OF HIS BRETHREN._ In those d...
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...
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...
HE LOOKED THIS WAY AND THAT WAY. — To see that no one observed him. HE SLEW THE EGYPTIAN. — Jewish commentators gloss over the act, or even eulogise it as patriotic and heroical. But it was clearly th...
וַ יִּ֤פֶן כֹּה֙ וָ כֹ֔ה וַ יַּ֖רְא
THE CHOICE OF MOSES. Exodus 2:11. God works even His miracles by means. As He fed the multitude with barley-loaves, so He would emancipate Israel by human agency. It was therefore necessary to educat...
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...
And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that [there was] no man, he (e) slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. (e) Being assured that God had appointed him to deliver the Israelites...
He slew the Egyptian. This he did by a particular inspiration of God; as a prelude to his delivering the people from their oppression and bondage. He thought, says St. Stephen, (Acts vii. 25,) that hi...
The Jews have a tradition that Moses slew the Egyptian by the word of his mouth. Such instances have been. See Acts 5:3....
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...
12._And he looked this way and that way. _Hence it more evidently appears that Moses came with the design of succouring his unhappy brethren, and of relieving and aiding them with his help, since, by...
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 HE LOOKED THIS WAY, AND THAT WAY,.... All around, to observe if there were any within sight who could see what he did; which did not arise from any consciousness of any evil he was about to commit...
And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that [there was] no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. Ver. 12. _He slew the Egyptian._] This deed of his was heroic and extraord...
_When Moses was grown, he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens_ As one that not only pitied them, but was resolved to venture with them and for them. _He slew the Egyptian_ Probably...
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...
And he looked this way and that way, to be sure that there were no unwelcome witnesses present, AND WHEN HE SAW THAT THERE WAS NO MAN, HE SLEW THE EGYPTIAN, thus avenging the murder which the latter h...
MOSES ATTEMPTS TO DELIVER HIS PEOPLE...
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...
11-15 Moses boldly owned the cause of God's people. It is plain from Exodus 2:11. that this was done in faith, with the full purpose of leaving the honours, wealth, and pleasures of his rank among th...
LOOKED THIS WAY AND THAT WAY; not from conscience of guilt in what he intended, but from human and warrantable prudence. This action of Moses was extraordinary, and is not to be justified by the commo...
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 2:12 looked H6437 (H8799) way H3541 way H3541 saw H7200 (H8799) one H376 killed H5221 ...
MOSES HAS TO FLEE FROM EGYPT (EXODUS 2:11 B). Moses would have been educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, being groomed for high office. Loyal relatives who had no pretensions to a claim to th...
THE FIRST FIVE WORDS - ATTITUDE TOWARDS GOD (EXODUS 20:2). The basic principle behind these first commandments is a simple one. It is that Yahweh is supreme, and that to try to depict Him in any heave...
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...
_He slew the _Egyptian_._ THE OPPRESSOR SLAIN; OR A WRONG WAY OF REPROVING INJURY I. There are many instances of cruel oppression in the world. 1. There is oppression in the commercial life of men....
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 2:1 These facts, together with the account of God’s call on Moses (Exodus 3:1), should lead the people of Israel to embrace Moses as God’s authorized “prince and judge” ...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 2:11_ THE OPPRESSOR SLAIN; OR, A WRONG WAY OF REPROVING INJURY I. THERE ARE MANY INSTANCES OF CRUEL OPPRESSION IN THE WORLD. Slavery is almost obsolete. We...
EXPOSITION. Exodus 2:11-2 FIRST ATTEMPT OF MOSES TO DELIVER HIS NATION, AND ITS FAILURE. AFTER MOSES WAS GROWN UP — ACCORDING TO THE TRADITION ACCEPTED BY ST. STEPHEN ...
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...
he looked. Acts 7:24 slew....
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...