INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 6 The Lord encourages Moses to hope for success from his name Jehovah, and the covenant he had made with the fathers of his people, Exodus 6:1, orders him to assure the children of Israel that he would deliver them from their bondage and burdens, and bring them into the land... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES,.... In answer to the questions put to him, and the expostulations made with him: NOW SHALT THOU SEE WHAT I WILL DO TO PHARAOH: in inflicting punishments on him: for with a strong hand shall he let them go; being forced to it by the mighty hand of God upon him; and it... [ Continue Reading ]
AND GOD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, AND SAID UNTO HIM, I AM THE LORD. Or Jehovah, the self-existent Being, the Being of beings, the everlasting I am, the unchangeable Jehovah, true, firm, and constant to his promises, ever to be believed, and always to be depended on.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I APPEARED UNTO ABRAHAM, UNTO ISAAC, AND UNTO JACOB, BY [THE NAME] OF GOD ALMIGHTY,.... Able to fulfil all his purposes, promises, and covenant, with whom nothing is impossible; or Elshaddai, God all-sufficient, who has a sufficiency of happiness in himself, and everything to supply the wants of... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I HAVE ALSO ESTABLISHED MY COVENANT WITH THEM,.... With Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and with their posterity, so that it is sure and firm, and shall never be made null and void: TO GIVE THEM THE LAND OF CANAAN; or to their children, which were as themselves: THE LAND OF THEIR PILGRIMAGE, WHEREI... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I HAVE ALSO HEARD THE GROANING OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,.... For the Lord is not only the eternal and immutable Being in his purposes and promises, and a covenant keeping God; but he is compassionate and merciful, and sympathizes with his people in all their afflictions; he takes notice of thei... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE SAY UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, I AM THE LORD,.... Eternal in his being, immutable in his counsels, faithful to his covenant, and able to fulfil it; AND I WILL BRING YOU OUT FROM UNDER THE BURDENS OF THE EGYPTIANS; which lay heavy on them, and made them sigh and groan: AND I WILL RID YO... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I WILL TAKE YOU TO ME FOR A PEOPLE,.... Out of the hands of the Egyptians, and out of their country, to be in a political sense his kingdom and subjects; and in a religious sense a holy people to himself, to fear, serve, worship, and glorify him, by walking according to laws and rules given them... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I WILL BRING YOU IN UNTO THE LAND,.... The land of Canaan: CONCERNING THE WHICH I DID SWEAR; or lift up my hand a, which was a gesture used in swearing, Genesis 14:22 TO GIVE IT TO ABRAHAM, TO ISAAC, AND TO JACOB; see Exodus 6:4: AND I WILL GIVE IT YOU FOR AN HERITAGE; to be possessed as an i... [ Continue Reading ]
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 would have revived their spirits, and refreshed and comforted their hearts under their troubles, and... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES,.... At another time, and renewed his orders to him to go again to Pharaoh, and require their dismission: SAYING; as follows:... [ Continue Reading ]
GO IN,.... Into Pharaoh's palace, and into his presence, to whom access seems not to be very difficult; and perhaps access to princes was not attended with so much ceremony then as it now is: SPEAK UNTO PHARAOH KING OF EGYPT; though a king, and a king of so large a country as Egypt, yet do not be a... [ Continue Reading ]
AND MOSES SPAKE BEFORE THE LORD,.... Who appeared in a visible form, and had spoke to him with an articulate voice, and before whom Moses stood, and made the following reply: SAYING, BEHOLD, THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAVE NOT HEARKENED UNTO ME; even though he brought a comfortable message to them from... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES AND UNTO AARON,.... No notice is taken of the objection of Moses, having been sufficiently answered before, and Aaron is joined with him in the following charge: AND GAVE THEM A CHARGE UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND UNTO PHARAOH KING OF EGYPT; that is, to go to the c... [ Continue Reading ]
THESE BE THE HEADS OF THEIR FATHER'S HOUSES,.... Not of the families of Moses and Aaron, but of the children of Israel, though only the heads of three tribes are mentioned; and some think that these three are taken notice of, to show that they were not rejected of God, though they seem to be rather... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SONS OF SIMEON, JEMUEL, AND JAMIN, AND OHAD, AND JACHIN, AND ZOHAR, AND SHAUL THE SON OF A CANAANITISH WOMAN,.... Genesis 46:10 THESE ARE THE FAMILIES OF SIMEON; who gave rise and name to the several families of that tribe now in Egypt.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THESE ARE THE NAMES OF THE SONS OF LEVI, ACCORDING TO THEIR GENERATIONS,.... Whose sons, according to the order of their birth, were as follow: GERSHOM, AND KOHATH, AND MERARI; see Genesis 46:11: AND THE YEARS OF THE LIFE OF LEVI WERE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SEVEN YEARS; and exactly the same nu... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SONS OF GERSHOM, LIBNI, AND SHIMI, ACCORDING TO THEIR FAMILIES. He had only two sons, from whom came the families of the Libnites and Shimites; see Numbers 3:21.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SONS OF KOHATH, AMRAM, AND IZHAR, AND HEBRON, AND UZZIEL,.... So they are reckoned in 1 Chronicles 6:18 though only the family of the Hebronites are mentioned in Numbers 26:58 AND THE YEARS OF THE LIFE OF KOHATH WERE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY THREE YEARS. A Jewish chronologer says f he died on... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SONS OF MERARI, MAHALI, AND MUSHI,.... From whence sprung the families of the Mahalites, and Mushites, Numbers 3:33: THESE ARE THE FAMILIES OF LEVI, ACCORDING TO THEIR GENERATIONS: the families that descended from him and his sons, according to the order of their birth.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AMRAM TOOK HIM JOCHEBED HIS FATHER'S SISTER TO WIFE,.... This Amram was the first son of Kohath, and the father of Moses, as after related, and so must be the same with the man of the house of Levi, and his wife the daughter of Levi, as in Exodus 2:1 and though such a marriage was afterwards pro... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SONS OF IZHAR, KORAH, AND NEPHEG, AND ZICHRI. These seem to be mentioned for the sake of Korah, concerning whom is a remarkable history in the following book; for the other two are nowhere else spoken of.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SONS OF UZZIEL, MISHAEL, AND ELZAPHAN, AND ZICHRI. The two first of these were the men that were ordered by Moses to carry out of the camp the two sons of Aaron, who were killed by lightning for offering strange fire, Leviticus 10:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AARON TOOK HIM ELISHEBA,.... The same name we pronounce Elizabeth; and of this name was the wife of Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, Luke 1:5, this woman Aaron took was THE DAUGHTER OF AMMINADAB, THE SISTER OF NAASHON; a prince of the tribe of Judah, Numbers 7:12, her he took to wife;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SONS OF KORAH,.... The eldest son of Izhar, who, though he proved a bad man, yet many of his posterity were good men, and are often mentioned in general in the titles of some of the psalms of David: the immediate sons of Korah were ASSIR, AND ELKANAH, AND ABIASAPH. Aben Ezra says, that Samu... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ELEAZAR AARON'S SON TOOK HIM ONE OF THE DAUGHTERS OF PUTIEL TO WIFE,.... This was Aaron's eldest son. The person, whose daughter he married, Dr. Lightfoot m conjectures was an Egyptian convert, perhaps of the posterity of Potipherah, among whom Joseph had sowed the seeds of true religion, and su... [ Continue Reading ]
THESE ARE THAT AARON AND MOSES,.... Aaron is set before Moses, because he was the eldest, and because he prophesied in Egypt before Moses, as Aben Ezra observes; though Moses was greater in dignity than he, and therefore the true reason may be the modesty of Moses; though in a following verse Moses... [ Continue Reading ]
THESE ARE THEY WHICH SPOKE TO PHARAOH KING OF EGYPT,.... In the name of the Lord of hosts; and demanded the dismission of Israel, in order TO BRING THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL FROM EGYPT; nor did they desist making application to him, until they had prevailed upon him to let them go: THESE ARE THAT MOS... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE DAY WHEN THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES IN THE LAND OF EGYPT. This verse depends upon the following for the sense of it, which shows what it was the Lord said to Moses in the day he spake to him in Egypt, when he was come thither, which is as follows:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING, I AM THE LORD,.... See Exodus 6:2: SPEAK THOU UNTO PHARAOH KING OF EGYPT ALL THAT I SAY UNTO THEE; that he let Israel go; and that in case of refusal, that he would punish him and his people with this and the other plague, one after another, and at last slay h... [ Continue Reading ]
AND MOSES SAID BEFORE THE LORD, BEHOLD, I AM OF UNCIRCUMCISED LIPS,.... As he had done, Exodus 6:13, and this is only a repetition of what is there said, in order to lead on to what is related in the following chapter: HOW SHALL PHARAOH HEARKEN UNTO ME? so mean a person, and so poor a speaker, and... [ Continue Reading ]