Three days’ journey - i. e. a journey which would occupy three days in going and returning. This was a demand quite in accordance with Egyptian customs. The refusal of Pharaoh and the subsequent proceedings were revealed to Moses at once; but it is important to observe that the first request which Pharaoh rejected could have been granted without any damage to Egypt, or any risk of the Israelites passing the strongly-fortified frontier.
Verse Exodus 3:18. _THEY SHALL HEARKEN TO THY VOICE_] This assurance was necessary to encourage him in an enterprise so dangerous and important. _THREE DAYS' JOURNEY INTO THE WILDERNESS_] Evidently...
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...
EXODUS 3:16 J. MESSAGE TO THE ELDERS. This paragraph, which overlaps the last, contains J's account of Moses's instructions, which are to be passed on (not as in Exodus 3:15 E, to the people at large,...
SACRIFICE. Hebrew. _zabach._ See App-43....
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...
THE LORD GOD OF THE HEBREWS HATH MET WITH US— _Hath called us,_ according to the reading which Dr. Kennicott proposes. They were to ask only for three days' journey, by way of proving Pharaoh, as the...
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...
_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...
GOD OF THE HEBREWS] To the Israelites God is 'Jehovah, the God of your fathers' (Exodus 3:16), a designation which would appeal to their hearts as it reminded them of God's covenant, with their forefa...
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...
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...
THEY SHALL HEARKEN. — The pronoun “they” refers to “the elders” of Exodus 3:16. For the fulfilment of the promise, see Exodus 4:29. The elders appear to have been persuaded easily, and at once. THOU A...
וְ שָׁמְע֖וּ לְ קֹלֶ֑ךָ וּ בָאתָ֡ אַתָּה֩
Exodus 3:16. THE COMMISSION. Exodus 3:10, Exodus 3:16. We have already learned from the seventh verse that God commissioned Moses, only when He had Himself descended to deliver Israel. He sends non...
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...
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...
And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us...
_Called. Samaritan and Septuagint, "hath been invoked upon us." Hebrew, "hath occurred, or appeared to us." (Haydock) --- Journey, to Sinai, which was about this distance, to go straight. But the Isra...
Exodus 4:31....
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...
18._And they shall hearken to thy voice. _(44) The literal translation is, “They shall hearken to thy voice,” which many take to be a promise from God that they should be obedient; but the sense given...
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...
AND THEY SHALL HEARKEN TO THY VOICE,.... The elders of Israel, who would give credit to his commission, attend to what he said, and obey his orders, and follow the directions that he should give them,...
And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us...
Exo. 3:18. "And you shall say unto him, The Lord God of the Hebrews hath met with us, and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our...
_Hath met with us_ Hath appeared to us, declaring his will, that we should do what follows. _I am sure he will not let you go_ God sends his messengers to those whose obstinacy he foresees, that it ma...
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...
THE EMPHATIC COMMISSION...
And they shall hearken to thy voice; and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The Lord God of the Hebrews hath met with us, for the presen...
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...
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...
16-22 Moses' success with the elders of Israel would be good. God, who, by his grace, inclines the heart, and opens the ear, could say beforehand, They shall hearken to thy voice; for he would make t...
HATH MET WITH US; hath appeared to us, expressing his displeasure for our neglect of him, and declaring his will that we should do what follows. THREE DAYS JOURNEY; to Sinai, which, going the nearest...
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...
Exodus 3:18 heed H8085 (H8804) voice H6963 come H935 (H8804) elders H2205 Israel H3478 king H4428 Egypt...
MOSES IS THEREFORE TO GO TO THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL AND PROMISE A GLORIOUS DELIVERANCE (EXODUS 3:16). a Moses is to gather the elders and explain that Yahweh the God of their fathers has visited them a...
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...
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...
_Let us go, we beseech thee, three days’ journey._ A MODERATE REQUEST This request seems at first to be put in a politic form, as if to secure a favourable answer. This, however, was quite unnecessar...
EXODUS 3:1 Call of Moses. These chapters focus primarily on the call of Moses at the burning bush (Exodus 3:1). They also cover Moses’ return from Midian to Egypt: the peaceful departure from Jethro ...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 3:18 The powerful KING OF EGYPT would think it ridiculous for Moses to make a request in the name of THE LORD, THE GOD OF THE HEBREWS. What god would choose to be identified w
_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 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...
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...
and they. Exodus 3:16 Exodus 4:31 Joshua 1:17 2 Chronicles 30:12 Psalms
FAITH AS EXEMPLIFIED IN MOSES Selections from Exodus 3:1; Exodus 6:1; Exodus 7:1; Exodus 8:1;...
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...
Hath met with us — Hath appeared to us, declaring his will, that we should do what follows....