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Exodus 3:15

EXODUS—NOTE ON Exodus 3:15 The LORD. The esv follows the tradition of replacing “Yahweh” (the four Hebrew consonants YHWH) with “the LORD” (with small capital letters). This practice goes back to the Septuagint, a pre-Christian Greek translation of the OT. Translating this term as “the LORD” also links up with the NT, which calls Christ “Lord,” identifying him with the God of the OT.

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See also Exodus 3:15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 3:15. _THIS_ IS _MY NAME FOR EVER_] The name here referred to is that which immediately precedes, יהוה אלהים _Yehovah Elohim_, which we translate the LORD GOD, the name by which God _had...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE LORD GOD ... - Better, Jehovah יהוה _y__e__hovâh_, God of your fathers, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob. It corresponds exactly to the preceding verse, the words “I am” and “Jehova...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 3 THE BURNING BUSH AND THE CALL AND COMMISSION OF MOSES _ 1. The vision of the burning bush (Exodus 3:1)_ 2. Jehovah speaks and calls Moses (Exodus 3:4) 3. Moses' answer (Exodus 3:11) 4. T...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 2:23 TO EXODUS 3:15. THE CALL OF MOSES ( FIRST ACCOUNT). Exodus 2:23_ a_, J, Exodus 2:23 _b_ -...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._. He will be, spoken of by others. See App-4 and compare Revelation 1:4, "which is ". continuance in time present; "which was". continuance in time past; "which is to come...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Exodus 3:1 TO EXODUS 4:17. Moses commissioned by Jehovah at Horeb to deliver His people. The dialogue between Jehovah and Moses, as in other cases (cf. Delitzsch on Genesis 12:1), must be pictured, no...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THIS IS MY NAME, &C.— JEHOVAH, in consequence of this, was always held among the Jews, as the peculiar and distinguishing name of their God. And as God was peculiarly the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Ja...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 3 Now Mo-ses was keeping the flock of Je-thro his father-in-law, the priest of Mid-i-an: and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THE LORD SAID, I HAVE SURELY SEEN THE AFFLICTION OF MY PEOPLE WHICH ARE IN EGYPT, AND HAVE HEARD THEIR CRY BY REASON OF THEIR TASKMASTERS; FOR I KNOW THEIR SORROWS;_ I have surely seen the affli...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    3:15 memorial (e-50) As Psalms 30:4 ; Psalms 97:12 ; Psalms 102:12 ; Psalms 135:13 ;...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    MY MEMORIAL] i.e. my name, the designation by which I will be remembered....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CALL OF MOSES AND HIS COMMISSION TO BE THE DELIVERER OF ISRAEL 1. Horeb] The names Horeb and Sinai seem to be synonymous, though it has been suggested that Horeb is the name given to the entire mo...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 3 GOD CALLS MOSES 3:1 – 4:17 THE BUSH THAT BURNED – VERSES 1-6 V1 N...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE LORD GOD OF YOUR FATHERS. — Heb., _Jehovah, God of your fathers._ The “I AM” of the preceding verse (_‘ehyeh_) is modified here into _Jahveh,_ or Jehovah, by a substitution of the third person for...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּאמֶר֩ עֹ֨וד אֱלֹהִ֜ים אֶל ־מֹשֶׁ֗ה כֹּֽ

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    MOSES SENT TO DELIVER ISRAEL Exodus 3:13 How unlike this Moses was to the man who, forty years before, had acted with such impulsive haste, Acts 7:23. He had learned much since then, and most about h...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    At last the actual call of God came to Moses. It found him fulfilling a daily duty, keeping the sheep of his father-in-law. There can be no doubt that in the silent solitudes of the wilderness he had...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Memorial. By this title he is still known among Christians. (Menochius) --- Hitherto God had generally been called Elohim. But now he assumes the incommunicable name (Tirinus) consisting of four vowel...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The last verse was glorious. And the moreover with the contents of this is not less so. There we read what God is in himself. Here we read what he is to his people. Reader! do you pray for grace as I...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    15._And God said moreover. _God again assumes his name taken from the covenant which he had made with Abraham and his posterity, that the Israelites may know that they do not deceive themselves in an...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    But at last God looks upon His people, and not only gives the faith that identifies itself with His people, but displays the power which delivers them. That Moses, who was rejected as a prince and a j...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND GOD SAID MOREOVER UNTO MOSES,.... As a further explanation of the above name, and of the design and use of it: THUS SHALT THOU SAY UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: for their further instruction in th...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    God will be known, 2d, By a name that speaks _what he is to his people._ Lest they should not understand the name I AM, Moses is directed to make use of another name of God more familiar to them. _The...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Moses keepeth Iethros flocke. 2 God appeareth to him in a burning bush. 9 He sendeth him to deliuer Israel. 14 The name of God. 15 His message to Israel. 1 NOWE Moses kept the flocke of Iethro...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And God said, moreover, unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you; th...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE EMPHATIC COMMISSION...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    C. THE CALL OF MOSES. HIS REFUSAL AND OBEDIENCE. HIS ASSOCIATION WITH AARON AND THEIR FIRST MISSION TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL Exodus 2:3 1Now Moses kept [was pasturing] the flock of Jethro his father-i...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE BURNING BUSH: MOSES CALLED TO EGYPT In tending Jethro's sheep Moses came to Mount Horeb, called "the mountain of God," because it signified Israel's relationship with God as under law. It is also...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    11-15 Formerly Moses thought himself able to deliver Israel, and set himself to the work too hastily. Now, when the fittest person on earth for it, he knows his own weakness. This was the effect of m...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE LORD, Heb. _Jehovah_; a word of the same root and signification with _I am_. See EXODUS 6:3. This he adds, because God was best known to the Israelites by that name; and to show, that though he ha...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    We shall now resume the personal history of Moses, and contemplate him during that deeply-interesting period of his career which he spent in retirement-a period including, as we should say, forty of h...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 3:15 Moreover H5750 God H430 said H559 (H8799) Moses H4872 say H559 (H8799) children H1121 Israel...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    HE REVEALS HIMSELF AS YAHWEH, THE GOD OF THEIR FATHERS WITH THE PROMISE OF DELIVERANCE (EXODUS 3:6). a Yahweh declares that He is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Exodus 3:6 a). b Moses hides hi...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Exodus 3:14 In the long bondage of Israel the God of their fathers had become to the most a name, a faint echo, an image ever growing dimmer. They were in a country where countless gods were worshippe...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Moses called as deliverer. The burning bush. CHARACTERS: Jethro, Moses, angel. CONCLUSION: Those qualified for great service may expect for a time to be confined to obscurity for special p...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 3:1. _Horeb_ and Sinai are the same mountain, almost surrounded by two branches of the Red sea. But it has two summits, Sinai on the east, and Horeb on the west. Justinian built a monastery her...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac._ THE GOD OF THE GENERATIONS Men are always influenced more or less by the power of great names. This appears in every sphere of li...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _ILLUSTRATIONS_ EXODUS 3:14. Tully relateth how Simonides, being asked by Hiero, the king of Sicily, what God was, desired one day to consider of it; and after one day being past, having not yet found...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    THE CALL AND MISSION OF MOSES. EXPOSITION EXODUS 3:1 THE MISSION OF MOSES. After forty years of monotonous pastoral life, affording abundant opportunity for meditation, and for spiritual communion...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to mount Horeb (Exodus 3:1). Now n...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    the Lord. Exodus 3:6 Exodus 4:5 Genesis 17:7 Genesis 17:8 Deuteronomy 1:11...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    FAITH AS EXEMPLIFIED IN MOSES Selections from Exodus 3:1; Exodus 6:1; Exodus 7:1; Exodus 8:1;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE DELIVERER Exodus 3:11 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We continue a study concerning Israel in _Egypt_ and God's great deliverance which He wrought through Moses. We wish to refer you to the 9th verse of ou...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The Lord God of our fathers hath sent me unto you — Thus God made himself known, that he might revive among them the religion of their fathers, which was much decayed, and almost lost. And that he mig...

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