CONTENTS The relation of an event in the family affairs of Moses, is introduced in this Chapter. The Reader will recollect, that when Moses with his wife Zipporah and his two sons were at the inn in their way to Egypt, as related in Exodus 4:1, it is said that the Lord met him. It is probable at th... [ Continue Reading ]
Exodus 4:24. See the gospel sense of this: Matthew 19:29.... [ Continue Reading ]
I think it an observation worth remark, how fond the Old Testament saints were of giving names to their children which became expressive of mercies received. It were to be wished that New Testament believers more generally adopted the same plan. Gershom signifieth a stranger. Hence David, Psalms 39:... [ Continue Reading ]
Eliezer, that is, my God is my help. Psalms 46:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
This mount of God was Horeb: 1 Kings 19:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
Probably this was said by a messenger: Genesis 32:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Reader may make applications of these things in a spiritual sense to his own state; and what a volume hath everyone to unfold to a friend after a long separation! Psalms 66:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
Jethro though a Midianite, could not but be led to discover the hand of God in guiding Israel. The church makes the same beautiful observation at the close of a long discourse of divine mercies. Psalms 107:43.... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe the early and general idea of sacrifices even before the giving of the law. Doth not this evidently imply that from the first, the idea was alive in the human mind of some mode of expiation. See Genesis 3:21 with Hebrews 10:5 and Revelation 13:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader! do not overlook in this feature of Moses, one of the characters of the Lord Jesus, whom Moses prefigured. John 5:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader, carry on in your mind the typical representation here made of the Lord Jesus, remember those sweet scriptures, John 14:6; John 14:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
Deuteronomy 1:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Samuel 23:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
Acts 6:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
Acts 14:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
To understand this account, the Reader should consult Numbers 10:29. It is probable that Jethro and Hobab mean one and the same person. If not, perhaps Hobab was the son of Jethro whom his father left with Moses, when he himself; as this verse relates, returned to his home. And that Hobab, as the pa... [ Continue Reading ]