CHAPTER VI _God encourages Moses, and promises to show wonders upon Pharaoh,_ _and to bring out his people with a strong hand_, 1. _He confirms this promise by his essential name_ JEHOVAH, 2, 3; _by the covenant he had made with their fathers_, 4, 5. _Sends Moses with a fresh message to the Heb... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Exodus 6:2. _I_ AM _THE_ LORD] It should be, _I am_ JEHOVAH, and without this the reason of what is said in the Exodus 6:3 is not sufficiently obvious.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Exodus 6:3. _BY THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY_] אל שדי EL-SHADDAl, God All-sufficient; God the dispenser or pourer-out of gifts. Genesis 17:1. _BUT BY MY NAME_ JEHOVAH _WAS I NOT KNOWN TO THEM._] This passage has been a sort of _crux criticorum_, and has been variously explained. It is certain th... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Exodus 6:4. _I HAVE ALSO ESTABLISHED MY COVENANT_] I have now fully purposed to give present effect to all my engagements with your fathers, in behalf of their posterity.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Exodus 6:6. _SAY UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, I_ AM _THE_ LORD, _AND I_ _WILL BRING YOU OUT, C__._] This confirms the explanation given of Exodus 6:3, which Exodus 6:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Exodus 6:7. _I WILL TAKE YOU TO ME FOR A PEOPLE, C._] This was precisely the covenant that he had made with Abraham. See Genesis 17:7, and Genesis 17:7. _AND YE SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE_ LORD _YOUR GOD_] By thus fulfilling my promises ye shall know what is implied in my name. Exodus 6:3. But... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Exodus 6:8. _WHICH I DID SWEAR_] נשאתי את ידי _nasathi eth yadi, I_ _have lifted up my hand_. The usual mode of making an appeal to God, and hence considered to be a _form of swearing_. It is thus that Isaiah 62:8 is to be understood: _The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of h... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Exodus 6:9. _BUT THEY HEARKENED NOT_] Their bondage was become so extremely oppressive that they had lost all hope of ever being redeemed from it. After this verse the Samaritan adds, _Let us_ _alone, that we may serve the Egyptians: for it is better for us to_ _serve the Egyptians than that w... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Exodus 6:12. _UNCIRCUMCISED LIPS?_] The word ערל _aral_, which we translate _uncircumcised_, seems to signify any thing exuberant or superfluous. Had not Moses been remarkable for his excellent beauty, I should have thought the passage might be rendered _protuberant lips_; but as this sense ca... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Exodus 6:14. _THESE BE THE HEADS_] ראשי _rashey_, the _chiefs_ or _captains_. The following genealogy was simply intended to show that Moses and Aaron came in a direct line from Abraham, and to ascertain the time of Israel's deliverance. The whole account from Exodus 6:14-2 inclusive, is a sor... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Exodus 6:16. _THE YEARS OF THE LIFE OF LEVI_] "Bishop Patrick observes that Levi is thought to have lived the longest of all Jacob's sons, none of whose ages are recorded in Scripture but his and Joseph's, whom Levi survived _twenty-seven_ years, though he was much the elder brother. By the c... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Exodus 6:20. _HIS FATHER'S SISTER_] דדתו _dodatho_. The true meaning of this word is uncertain. Parkhurst observes that דוד _dod_ signifies an _uncle_ in 1 Samuel 10:14; Leviticus 10:4, and frequently elsewhere. It signifies also an _uncle's son_, a _cousin-german_: compare Jeremiah 32:8 with... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Exodus 6:21. _KORAH_] Though he became a rebel against God and Moses, (see Numbers 16:1, c.), yet Moses, in his great impartiality, inserts his name among those of his other progenitors.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Exodus 6:22. _UZZIEL_] He is called Aaron's _uncle_, Leviticus 10:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Exodus 6:23. _ELISHEBA_] The oath of the Lord. It is the same name as _Elizabeth_, so very common among Christians. She was of the royal tribe of Judah, and was sister to Nahshon, one of the princes; see Numbers 2:3. _ELEAZAR_] He succeeded to the high priesthood on the death of his father Aa... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Exodus 6:25. _PHINEHAS_] Of the celebrated act of this person, and the most honourable grant made to him and his posterity, see Numbers 25:7-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Exodus 6:26. _ACCORDING TO THEIR ARMIES._] צבאתם _tsibotham, their_ _battalions-regularly arranged troops_. As God had these particularly under his care and direction, he had the name of יהוה צבאות _Yehovah tsebaoth, Lord of hosts or armies_. "The plain and disinterested manner," says Dr. Do... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Exodus 6:28. _AND IT CAME TO PASS_] Here the _seventh_ chapter should commence, as there is a complete ending of the _sixth_ with Exodus 6:27, and the Exodus 6:30 of this chapter is intimately connected with the 1st verse of the succeeding. THE principal subjects in this chapter have been so... [ Continue Reading ]