the babe wept. Hebrew. babe weeping. compassion. In that tear lay the defeat of the enemy, the preservation of the Nation, the faithfulness of Jehovah's word, the bringing to naught "the wisdom of Egypt", and the coming of "the seed of the woman", Genesis 3:15. Compare Exodus 1:10 and Job 5:12; Job 5:13. (See App-23.)
Verse Exodus 2:6. _SHE HAD COMPASSION ON HIM_] The sight of a beautiful babe in distress could not fail to make the impression here mentioned; Exodus 2:2, Exodus 2:2. It has already been conjectured...
SHE HAD COMPASSION ON HIM - The Egyptians regarded such tenderness as a condition of acceptance on the day of reckoning. In the presence of the Lord of truth each spirit had to answer, “I have not aff...
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 2:1 TO EXODUS 4:31. PREPARATION AND CALL OF MOSES. Exodus 2:1 E. His Birth and Upbringing. If the text can be trusted, we are informed that a man of the house of Levi took (to wife) the (only)...
SHE SAW THE CHILD. Rather; "She saw him, the child, and behold,. male infant weeping." The weeping child appealed to. sympathy, natural to the heart of. woman. She was. merciful daughter of. cruel fat...
BEHOLD, THE BABE WEPT— You have here an instance of the true sublime: nothing can be more concise, yet nothing more picturesque and pathetic. No wonder the heart of the princess was moved, and that th...
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 SHE HAD OPENED IT, SHE SAW THE CHILD: AND, BEHOLD, THE BABE WEPT. AND SHE HAD COMPASSION ON HIM, AND SAID, THIS IS ONE OF THE HEBREWS' CHILDREN._ When she had opened it - the princess excla...
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...
WHEN SHE HAD OPENED IT. — The princess opened the ark herself, perhaps suspecting what was inside, perhaps out of mere curiosity. THE BABE (RATHER, _THE BOY_) WEPT. Through hunger, or cold, or perhap...
וַ תִּפְתַּח֙ וַ תִּרְאֵ֣הוּ אֶת ־הַ יֶּ֔לֶד
CHAPTER II. _ THE RESCUE OF MOSES._ Exodus 2:1. We have said that the Old Testament history teems with political wisdom, lessons of permanent instruction for mankind, on the level of this life, yet...
MOSES PRESERVED BY PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER Exodus 2:1 When matters had reached their worst in respect to Israel's condition, God was preparing a deliverer. The child was more than ordinarily beautiful, Ac...
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...
_Hebrews, against whom the persecution raged. She saw it had received circumcision. (Theodoret, q. in Exodus)_...
Reader! while you admire and adore the goodness of God, in thus forming our nature with those unconscious pleas for mercy which fail not to operate upon all minds, more or less: do not forget what the...
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 WHEN SHE HAD OPENED IT,.... The ark, for it was shut or covered over, though doubtless there were some apertures for respiration: SHE SAW THE CHILD [IN IT], AND, BEHOLD, THE BABE WEPT; and which...
And when she had opened [it], she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This [is one] of the Hebrews' children. Ver. 6. One of the Hebrews' children.] So...
Exo. 2:6. "And behold, the babe wept." As Moses, in the water, was a type of the church in affliction, so his weeping a little before he is taken out of the water, seems to be typical of the spirit of...
_And the daughter of Pharaoh came_ Providence brings no less a person than Pharaoh's daughter just at that juncture, guides her to the place where this poor infant lay, inclines her heart to pity it,...
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 she had opened it, she saw the child; and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. She guessed the reason for the exposure of the...
MOSES ADOPTED BY PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER...
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...
5-10 Come, see the place where that great man, Moses, lay, when he was a little child; it was in a bulrush basket by the river's side. Had he been left there long, he must have perished. But Providen...
This she might very probably guess, both from the circumstances in which she found him, and from the singular fairness and beauty of the child, far differing from the Egyptian hue; and she might certa...
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 2:6 opened H6605 (H8799) saw H7200 (H8799) child H3206 baby H5288 wept H1058 (H8802) compassion...
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...
THE BIRTH OF MOSES (EXODUS 2:1). It is noteworthy that out of this dreadful period God produced his man for that hour. For in the midst of the bloodbath and the despair a child was born, who would 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...
_This is one of the Hebrews’ children._ THE PRINCESS AND THE ORPHAN I. The claims of the orphan 1. The first claim on her compassion was the claim of infancy. “She saw the child.” That sentence cont...
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” ...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 2:6. She saw the child] This verse is surpassingly delightful for simple vividness, when rendered in oriental fashion: “And she opens, and beholds him—even the child, and lo!...
EXPOSITION. Exodus 2:1. THE BIRTH, ESCAPE, AND EDUCATION OF MOSES. Some years before the Pharaoh issued his edict for the general destruction of the Hebrew male children, Amram of the tribe of Levi,...
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...
she had compassion. 1 Kings 8:50 Nehemiah 1:11 Psalms 106:46 Proverbs 21:1...
THE DAUGHTERS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT Exodus 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Among the daughters of the Old Testament we have chosen to present to you Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, and the sister of A...
THE CHILD MOSES Exodus 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS "God works in a mysterious way His wonders to perform." As this study opens, we find the Children of Israel in dire distress because of the rigor with w...