Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Exodus 12:37
And the children of Israel journeyed from (q) Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot [that were] men, beside children.
(q) Which was a city in Goshen; (Genesis 47:11).
And the children of Israel journeyed from (q) Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot [that were] men, beside children.
(q) Which was a city in Goshen; (Genesis 47:11).
Verse Exodus 12:37. _FROM RAMESES TO SUCCOTH_] Rameses appears to have been another name for _Goshen_, though it is probable that there might have been a chief city or village in that land, where the...
RAMESES - See Exodus 1:11 note. Rameses was evidently the place of general rendezvous, well adapted for that purpose as the principal city of Goshen. The Israelites were probably settled in considerab...
5. REDEMPTION BY BLOOD, THE PASSOVER AND THE LAW OF THE FIRSTBORN CHAPTER 12 The Passover Instituted and Kept, the Death of the Firstborn and the Exodus _ 1. The Passover instituted and the feast of...
EXODUS 12:37 - EXODUS 18. FROM EGYPT TO SINAI. Exodus 12:37 J. THE EXODUS. From Rameses (Exodus 1:11_ b_ *) the first stage of the journey took the people 10 miles W. to Succoth (Eg. Thikke), the dis...
RAMESES. City of the Sun. See note on Exodus 1:1. Succoth. booths. MEN. Not _'ish_, males, but Hebrew. _geber,_ with art.. the strong men; or, men of military age. Numbers 14:29. See App-14....
FROM RAMESES TO SUCCOTH— In Genesis 47:11. Goshen is called _the land of Rameses;_ and therefore it is most reasonable to suppose, that no particular city is here meant, but the land of Goshen in gene...
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 12 AND JE-HO-VAH SPAKE UNTO MO-SES AND AAR-ON IN THE LAND OF E-GYPT, SAYING, (2) THIS MONTH SHALL BE UNTO YOU THE BEGINNING OF MONTHS; IT SHALL BE THE FIRST MONTH OF THE...
_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL JOURNEYED FROM RAMESES TO SUCCOTH, ABOUT SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND ON FOOT THAT WERE MEN, BESIDE CHILDREN._ The children of Israel journeyed from Rameses. This city, which is n...
THE INSTITUTION OF THE PASSOVER. THE TENTH PLAGUE, AND THE DEPARTURE OF ISRAEL 1. In the land of Egypt] These words suggest that what follows was written independently of the foregoing narrative, and...
RAMESES] see on Exodus 1:11. SUCCOTH has been identified with the Egyptian Thuku, the region whose capital was Pithom: see on Exodus 1:11. SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND ON FOOT _that were_ MEN] i.e. of twenty...
EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 12 THE *PASSOVER – VERSES 1-28 PREPARATIONS FOR THE SPECIAL MEAL – VE...
FROM RAMESES TO SUCCOTH. — The difference between the Raamses of Exodus 1:11 and the Rameses of this passage is merely one of “pointing;” nor is there the least ground for supposing that a different p...
THE DEPARTURE OF ISRAEL, THEIR NUMBERS, AND THE TIME OF THE EGYPTIAN SOJOURN. (37-41) The two principal statements of this passage are — (1) that the sojourn of the Israelites in Egypt lasted four hun...
וַ יִּסְע֧וּ בְנֵֽי ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל מֵ רַעְמְסֵ֖ס...
THE EXODUS. Exodus 12:37. The children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth. Already, at the outset of their journey, controversy has had much to say about their route. Much ingenuity has been...
ISRAEL LED OUT OF EGYPT Exodus 12:37 The 600,000 were males above 20 years of age, Numbers 1:3. This would make the entire body not less than 2,000,000 of people of all ages. Succoth was the first ra...
While the subjects necessarily intermingle at this point, we turn from the contemplation of the judgments of Jehovah in dealing with Pharaoh to that of deliverance in His dealings with Israel. As thes...
Ramesse. The first of the 42 stations or encampments of the Hebrews. (Menochius) --- Socoth, or tents, perhaps the scenæ of Antoninus, or the Mischenot, mentioned chap i. 11. --- About. Moses does not...
Compare this with Genesis 46:27 then calculate the distance of time between those periods, not more than 200 years, and observe how the Lord's promise to Abraham was fulfilling. If the number of women...
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...
37._And the children of Israel journeyed. _Although it is probable that they were more widely dispersed, since that district could not have contained so great a multitude, especially when the Egyptian...
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...
AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL JOURNEYED FROM RAMESES TO SUCCOTH,.... Rameses was a place in Goshen, or rather the land of Goshen, from whence the country was so called; Genesis 47:11. The Targum of Jonat...
And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot [that were] men, beside children. Ver. 37. _About six hundred thousand._] So that promise to Abraham w...
_About six hundred thousand men_ The word means strong and able men fit for wars, besides women and children, which we cannot suppose to make less than twelve hundred thousand more. What a vast increa...
1 The beginning of the yeere is changed. 3 The Passeouer is instituted. 11 The Rite of the Passeouer. 15 Vnleauened bread. 29 The first borne are slaine. 31 The Israelites are driuen out of the l...
THE JOURNEY TO SUCCOTH...
And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses, the neighborhood of the city or the district where they had been living in Egypt, to Succoth, on the edge of the wilderness toward the east, where th...
D. THE EXODUS FROM EGYPT. LEGAL ENACTMENTS CONSEQUENT ON LIBERATION Exodus 12:37 to Exodus 13:16 37And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot, _t...
THE PASSOVER FEAST (vs.1-28) The time finally arrives for the Lord to accomplish a work of amazing power in Egypt in the deliverance of a nation numbering over two million, from the bondage of Egypt....
37-42 The children of Israel set forward without delay. A mixed multitude went with them. Some, perhaps, willing to leave their country, laid waste by plagues; others, out of curiosity; perhaps a few...
SUCCOTH; a place so called, either because there the Israelites first lodged in booths or tents, whereas before they dwelt in houses; or because there God first spread his cloud of fire over them _for...
"And the Lord said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altoge...
Exodus 12:37 children H1121 Israel H3478 journeyed H5265 (H8799) Rameses H7486 Succoth H5523 six H8337 hundred H3967
THE FIRST STAGES OF THEIR JOURNEY (EXODUS 12:37 TO EXODUS 13:22). The journey from Egypt now commencing we are informed of the quantity of those leaving and the connection backwards with when they fir...
Exodus 12:30 _(with Matthew 2:15)_ I. We cannot treat the Exodus as an isolated fact in history. Egypt is the type of the cunning, careless, wanton world, out of which in all ages God is calling His...
CONTENTS: Deliverance for Israel through the Passover. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Pharaoh. CONCLUSION: Deliverance for the believer is based entirely upon the shedding of the blood of a divinely...
Exodus 12:2. _The first month of the year._ This is called Abib, Exodus 13:4; and Nisan, Esther 3:7. It was before the seventh month, hence the earth is supposed to have been created in September; but...
_Journeyed from Rameses._ THE SETTING FORTH OF THE ISRAELITES FROM EGYPT 1. The sons of Israel, or Church of God, are in a moving state below. 2. From countries and cities with habitations, God lea...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 12:37 While the sons of Jacob and their families arrived in Egypt with 70 persons (see Exodus 1:5), the people of Israel who were going out of the land now numbered more than...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 12:37_ THE NOMINAL FOLLOWERS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH; THE MOTIVES BY WHICH THEY ARE ACTUATED, AND THE PERPLEXITIES BY WHICH THEY ARE TESTED The children of...
EXPOSITION THE DEPARTURE. There are, no doubts, great difficulties in conceiving the departure on one day, from one place, of "six hundred thousand that were men, beside children." The difficulty is i...
The Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you (Exodus 12:1-2). Now in a few wee...
the children Numbers 33:3 Numbers 33:5 Rameses Exodus 1:11 Genesis 47:11 six hundred...
About six hundred thousand men — The word means strong and able men fit for wars, beside women and children, which we cannot suppose to make less than twelve hundred thousand more. What a vast increas...