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THEY HEARKENED NOT - The contrast between the reception of this
communication and that recorded in Exodus 4:31 is accounted for by the
change of circumstances. On the former occasion the people were
c...
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CHAPTER 6:1-27 JEHOVAH'S ANSWERS AND THE GENEALOGY
_ 1. Jehovah answers Moses (Exodus 6:1)_
2. The Genealogy (Exodus 6:14)
Moses' “wherefore” and “why,” his outburst of impatience, is
graciously met...
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P'S SECOND ACCOUNT OF MOSES'S CALL. Till the method of Hebrew
compilers was understood, it was natural to take this as the account
of a second call. It is now seen to be the account of his call in the...
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SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach._ See App-9....
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DISCOURSE: 69
THE DESPONDENCY OF ISRAEL
Exodus 6:9._ And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they
hearkened not unto Moses, for anguish of spirit, and for cruel
bondage._
“AS face answers...
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ANGUISH OF SPIRIT— The original רוח קצר, _chotzer ruach,_
denotes that _shortness of breath,_ which is occasioned by extreme
_grief, anger,_ or _fatigue:_ see the margin of our Bibles. The LXX
render...
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THE TEXT OF EXODUS
TRANSLATION
6 AND JE-HO-VAH SAID UNTO MO-SES, NOW SHALT THOU SEE WHAT I WILL DO TO
PHA-RAOH: FOR BY A STRONG HAND SHALL HE LET THEM GO, AND BY A STRONG
HAND SHALL HE DRIVE THEM OUT...
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_AND MOSES SPAKE SO UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: BUT THEY HEARKENED
NOT UNTO MOSES FOR ANGUISH OF SPIRIT, AND FOR CRUEL BONDAGE._
Moses spake. The increased severities inflicted on the Israelites
see...
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6:9 spirit, (d-20) Or 'impatience.'...
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THE RENEWAL OF THE PROMISE. GENEALOGIES OF REUBEN, SIMEON, AND LEVI
1. The STRONG HAND is the hand of Jehovah, not of Pharaoh. So RV
renders, 'by a strong hand,' i.e. under the compelling force of
Je...
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EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION
THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT
EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_
CHAPTER 6
V1 Then the *LORD replied to Moses. ‘Now you will see what I will
d...
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THEY HEARKENED NOT. — The second message was received in quite a
different spirit from the first. Then “the people believed, and
bowed their knees and worshipped” (Exodus 4:31). Now they could not
eve...
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וַ יְדַבֵּ֥ר מֹשֶׁ֛ה כֵּ֖ן אֶל
־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂ
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CHAPTER VI.
_ THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF MOSES._
Exodus 6:1.
We have seen that the name Jehovah expresses not a philosophic
meditation, but the most bracing and reassuring truth--viz., that an
immutable a...
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GOD'S NAME CONFIRMS HIS PROMISES
Exodus 6:2
The statement of Exodus 6:3 is at first sight, startling, because we
remember several passages in Genesis where that sacred name appears.
But this arises f...
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Here commences the section of Exodus devoted to the subject of
national deliverance. Everything began with a solemn charge to Moses.
It is first an answer to the complaint which God's servant had utte...
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And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they
hearkened (c) not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel
bondage.
(c) So hard a thing it is to show true obedience under the cross....
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_Anguish: Septuagint, "pusillanimity." They would not even hope for a
change. (Menochius) --- The Samaritan copy records the speech which
they made to Moses. (Kennicott, p. 313.)_...
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Proverbs 13:12; Isaiah 28:12....
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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...
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9._And Moses spake so. _From this verse it appears that Moses is
referring to the second message which he was commanded to bear. For
they had before heard with great joy and approbation, and had
expre...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 5 THROUGH 13.
At the news of the goodness of God, the people adore Him; but the
struggle against the power of evil is another matter. Satan will not
let the p...
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AND MOSES SPAKE SO UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,.... After this manner,
and in the above words, declaring all that the Lord made known to him,
and promised to do for them; which one would have thought...
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And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not
unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
Ver. 9. _But they hearkened not._] The ear, which tastes words as the
m...
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_I will take you to me for a people_ A peculiar people; and _I will be
to you a God_ And more than this we need not ask, we cannot have, to
make us happy. _I am the Lord_ And therefore have power to d...
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1 God renueth his promise by his Name IEHOVAH.
14 The genealogie of Reuben,
15 of Simeon,
16 of Leui, of whom came Moses and Aaron.
1 THEN the LORD said vnto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will...
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GOD'S CHARGE TO MOSES AND AARON...
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And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel; but they hearkened not
unto Moses for anguish of spirit and for cruel bondage, literally, for
shortness of breath and for hard slavery. It was not merel...
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D. MOSES AND AARON BEFORE PHARAOH. THE SEEMINGLY MISCHIEVOUAS EFFECT
OF THEIR DIVINE MESSAGE, AND THE DISCOURAGMENT OF THE PEOPLE AND THE
MESSENGERS THEMSELVES. GOD REVERSES THIS EFFECT NU SOLEMNLY PR...
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GOD'S FURTHER PATIENT PREPARATION
(vs.1-13)
The impatience of Moses and of the children of Israel could not hasten
God to act out of impatience. He accomplished matters in His own wise
way. He tells...
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ANGUISH:
_ Heb._ shortness, or, straitness...
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1-9 We are most likely to prosper in attempts to glorify God, and to
be useful to men, when we learn by experience that we can do nothing
of ourselves; when our whole dependence is placed on him, and...
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Their minds were so oppressed with their present burdens and future
expectations, that they could not believe nor hope for any
deliverance, but deemed it impossible; and having been once deceived
in t...
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The effect of the first appeal to Pharaoh seemed ought but
encouraging. The thought of losing Israel made him clutch them with
greater eagerness and watch them with greater vigilance. Whenever
Satan's...
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Exodus 6:9 Moses H4872 spoke H1696 (H8762) children H1121 Israel H3478
heed H8085 (H8804) Moses H4872 anguish...
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YAHWEH'S RESPONSE TO PHARAOH'S BEHAVIOUR AND PROMISE TO HIS PEOPLE
(EXODUS 6:2).
This promise is in the usual form of a chiasmus as follows:
a God speaks to Moses (Exodus 6:2 a).
b God says to Moses...
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CONTENTS: Jehovah's answer to Moses' first prayer. Covenant renewed.
Families of Israel. Moses' commission renewed.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Pharaoh.
CONCLUSION: Man's extremity is God's opportunity...
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Exodus 6:1. _With a strong hand._ In a general view we do not find
that heaven has recourse to miracles, except when religion is low and
greatly depressed, somewhat as a fire which is burnt down has n...
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_They hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit._
PHYSICAL DESTITUTION STIFLING SPIRITUAL LIFE
A permanent principle of our nature, and a distinctive feature of the
Divine government are here e...
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 6:9_
PHYSICAL DESTITUTION STIFLING SPIRITUAL LIFE
This fact has long since passed away; but its lesson remains ever new.
Its body is dead, and has returned...
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EXPOSITION
EXODUS 6:9
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. The Israelites, who had expected
a speedy deliverance, and found themselves only the more down-trodden
for Moses' interference, were too muc...
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Chapter five of the book of Exodus, we left Moses in great despair. He
did what he thought God was calling him to do. He went to the Pharaoh
and demanded the release of the children of Israel. But the...
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hearkened Exodus 5:21 Exodus 14:12 Job 21:4 Proverbs 14:19 anguish.
Heb. shortness. or, straitness...
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FAITH AS EXEMPLIFIED IN MOSES
Selections from Exodus 3:1; Exodus 6:1; Exodus 7:1; Exodus 8:1;...
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But they hearkened not to Moses for anguish of spirit — That is,
They were so taken up with their troubles that they did not heed him....
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Did the children of Israel listen to Moses or disregard his words?
PROBLEM: Here the text claims that “they would not heed Moses.”
But earlier (in Exodus 4:31) it says “the people believed
[Moses],”...