Thy fellow - “Thy neighbor.” the reproof was that of a legislator who established moral obligations on a recognized principle. Hence, in the following verse, the offender is represented as feeling that the position claimed by Moses was that of a Judge. The act could only have been made known by the Hebrew on whose behalf Moses had committed it.
Verse Exodus 2:13. _TWO MEN OF THE HEBREWS STROVE TOGETHER_] How strange that in the very place where they were suffering a heavy persecution because they were _Hebrews_, the very persons themselves...
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...
MEN. Hebrew, plural of _'ish,_ or _'enosh._ App-14. STROVE. striving. HE SAID. Supposing they would have understood. "But they understood not, "Acts 7:25. WRONG. Hebrew. _rash`a,_ App-44....
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 WHEN HE WENT OUT THE SECOND DAY, BEHOLD, TWO MEN OF THE HEBREWS STROVE TOGETHER: AND HE SAID TO HIM THAT DID THE WRONG, WHEREFORE SMITEST THOU THY FELLOW?_ Two men of the Hebrews strove. The ben...
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...
THE SECOND DAY — i.e., the next day. HIM THAT DID THE WRONG. — Heb., _the wicked one._ Our version follows the LXX. WHEREFORE SMITEST THOU THY FELLOW? — Comp. Acts 7:26, where the words of Moses are...
וַ יֵּצֵא֙ בַּ † יֹּ֣ום הַ שֵּׁנִ֔י...
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...
Acts 7:26. Sweet and gentle reproof! Fellow sufferer! fellow oppressed! fellow Christian. All higher persuasions than fellow creature....
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...
13._Behold, two men of the Hebrews. _This perseverance shews that Moses was firm and determined in his design of returning to his brethren, and abandoning the Court; and that he had advisedly renounce...
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 WHEN HE WENT OUT THE SECOND DAY,.... The day following: BEHOLD, TWO MEN OF THE HEBREWS STROVE TOGETHER; which the Jewish writers h take to be Dathan and Abiram: AND HE SAID TO HIM THAT DID THE W...
And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? Ver. 13. _Behold, two men of the Hebrews...
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 when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together, they were engaged in a fight; AND HE SAID TO HIM THAT DID THE WRONG, the one that was in the wrong in the quarrel,...
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...
The next day after that achievement, he returns to execute the office in which God had set him as a judge, whose work it is both to destroy enemies, and to reconcile brethren....
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 2:13 out H3318 (H8799) second H8145 day H3117 two H8147 Hebrew H5680 men H582 fighting H5327 ...
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...
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...
_Two men of the Hebrews strove together._ MOSES’ CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE RIGHT In the first instance we might have thought that in taking part with the Hebrew against the Egyptian, Moses was but yielding...
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 2:13_ A GOOD MAN’S INTERFERENCE WITH A QUARREL I. THAT IT IS THE DUTY OF GOOD MEN TO TRY TO SUBDUE ANY QUARRELS THEY MAY BE CALLED TO WITNESS. 1. _Because...
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...
and he said. Acts 7:26 1 Corinthians 6:7 1 Corinthians 6:8...
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...