Exodus 1:21
What meaning of the exodus 1:21 in the Bible?
What does Exodus 1:21 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses."
What does Exodus 1:21 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses."
Verse Exodus 1:21. _HE MADE THEM HOUSES._] Dr. Shuckford thinks that there is something wrong both in the punctuation and translation of this place, and reads the passage thus, adding the 21st to the...
MADE THEM HOUSES - i. e. they married Hebrews and became mothers in Israel. The expression is proverbial. See the margin reference....
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. ISRAEL'S DELIVERANCE OUT OF THE HANDS OF THE EGYPTIANS 1. The House of Bondage CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The names of the children of Israel; their increase (Exodus 1:1)_ 2. The...
EXODUS 1:15 E ( EXODUS 1:20 B J). ATTEMPT TO DESTROY MALE CHILDREN. From another source we learn of two more ineffectual measures to restrict population. The two midwives, whose names tradition loved...
HOUSES. families. or progeny. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject). App-6....
HE MADE THEM HOUSES— _He made them families, i.e_. in the obvious sense of the words, he recompensed their piety, virtue, and courage, by making them prosperous, and their families considerable in Isr...
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 1 Now these are the names of the sons of Is-ra-el, who came into E-gypt (every man and his household came with Jacob): (2) Reu-ben, Sim-e-on, Le-vi, and Ju-dah, (3) Is-s...
_THEREFORE GOD DEALT WELL WITH THE MIDWIVES: AND THE PEOPLE MULTIPLIED, AND WAXED VERY MIGHTY._ Therefore God dealt well with the midwives ... This represents God as rewarding them for telling a lie....
OPPRESSION OF THE ISRAELITES 5. Seventy souls] Jacob himself is included in the number: cp. Genesis 46:8. Of the seventy, sixty-eight were males. If to the direct descendants of Jacob we add the wive...
EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ ABOUT THE BOOK OF EXODUS Exodus is one of the first 5 books of the *Old Testa...
HE MADE THEM HOUSES. — God rewarded those who had showed tenderness to young children, by giving them children of their own, who grew up, and became in their turn fathers and mothers of families. Ther...
וַ יְהִ֕י כִּֽי ־יָֽרְא֥וּ הַֽ מְיַלְּדֹ֖ת אֶת ־הָ אֱלֹהִ֑ים וַ יַּ֥עַשׂ לָהֶ֖ם בָּתִּֽים׃...
THE OPPRESSION. Exodus 1:7. At the beginning of the history of Israel we find a prosperous race. It was indeed their growing importance, and chiefly their vast numerical increase, which excited the...
GOD PROTECTS HEBREW BABES FROM PHARAOH'S DECREE Exodus 1:15 Egypt's _second_ stroke of policy was to begin with the children. Pharaoh and Herod set us an example in turning their attention to young...
The first word of Exodus, "Now," might with equal accuracy be rendered "And." Either word serves to suggest continuity. The story of Genesis is taken up in Exodus. It begins by recording the prolific...
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he (h) made them houses. (h) That is, God increased the families of the Israelites by their means....
_Because the midwives feared God, &c. The midwives were rewarded, not for their lie, which was a venial sin; but for their fear of God, and their humanity: but this reward was only temporal, in buildi...
Some have thought that the houses here spoken of, which God is said to have built for them, means that they were incorporated and built up in the faith of God's people. Psalms 107:41....
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...
21._He made them houses. _(23) It is not at all my opinion that this should be expounded as referring to the women, and I am surprised that many interpreters have been grossly mistaken on so dear a po...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2. First, we have the historical circumstances which relate to the captivity of Israel-the persecutions which this people had to endure, and the provid...
AND IT CAME TO PASS, BECAUSE THE MIDWIVES FEARED GOD,.... And regarded his command, and not that of the king, though they risked his displeasure, and their lives: THAT HE MADE THEM HOUSES; which some...
_And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses._ Ver. 21. _Because the midwives feared God._] There is no necessity of granting that the midwives told the king a lie....
_God dealt well with the midwives he made them houses _ He blessed them in kind: for as they kept up Israel's houses or families, so God, in recompense, built them up into families, blessed their chil...
1 The children of Israel after Iosephs death do multiply. 8 The more they are oppressed by a new King, the more they multiply. 15 The godlines of the Midwiues, in sauing the men children aliue. 22...
THE COMMAND TO KILL ALL THE MALE CHILDREN...
EXODUS THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES (וְאֵלֶּה שְׁמוֹת; _Ἐξοδος: Exodus_) THE PROPHETICO-MESSIANIC THEOCRACY—OR THE GENESIS, REDEMPTION AND SANCTIFICATION OF THE COVENANT PEOPLE FIRST DIVISION: MOSES AN...
ISRAEL MULTIPLIED (vs.1-7) The first five verses of Exodus indicate its continuity with the book of Genesis, for they confirm what is written in more detail in Genesis 46:8. This small number of 70...
15-22 The Egyptians tried to destroy Israel by the murder of their children. The enmity that is in the seed of the serpent, against the Seed of the woman, makes men forget all pity. It is plain that t...
i.e. God greatly increased their families both in children and posterity, and in wealth, and other outward blessings. So this phrase is used GENESIS 30:30 DEUTERONOMY 25:9 1 SAMUEL 2:35 1 KINGS 2:24,...
We now approach, by the mercy of God, the study of the Book of Exodus, of which the great prominent theme is redemption. The first five verses recall to the mind the closing scenes of the preceding bo...
Exodus 1:21 midwives H3205 (H8764) feared H3372 (H8804) God H430 provided H6213 (H8799) households H1004 made them - 1 Samuel 2:35, 1 Samuel 25:28; 2 Samuel 7:11-13, 2 Samuel 7:27-29;...
PHARAOH SEEKS TO DESTROY ISRAEL THROUGH ITS MIDWIVES (EXODUS 1:15). a The king of Egypt calls on the Hebrew midwives who are told at births to slay sons and let the daughters live (Exodus 1:16). b...
CONTENTS: Israel in Egypt and their bondage. CHARACTERS: Joseph, Pharaoh, Shiprah, Puah. CONCLUSION: God's providences may at times seem to thwart His promises that His peoples' faith may be tried a...
Exodus 1:1. _The children of Israel._ Some think we should read here, the sons of Israel. Paul, Galatians 4:3; Galatians 4:5, makes a distinction between children and sons, in the words νηπιοι and υιο...
_The children of Israel were fruitful _ THE INCREASE OF THE CHURCH I. Notwithstanding the removal of its chief officer (Exodus 1:6). Joseph dead; his influence gone; his counsel inaccessible. To-day...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 1:1 Exodus 1:1 of Israel from Egypt. The first half of Exodus 1:1 focuses on the departure of the people of Israel from Egypt. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName(...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 1:15. Hebrew midwives] It is curious, though it may not throw light on the precise relation in which these women stood to the Hebrew women, that their names should be of a lik...
EXPOSITION EXODUS 1:15-2 Some time—say five or six years—having elapsed and the Pharaoh's first plan having manifestly failed, it was necessary for him either to give up his purpose, or to devise som...
made them. 1 Samuel 2:35 1 Samuel 25:28 2 Samuel 7:11 2 Samuel 7:27 1 Kings 2:24 1 Kings 11:38 Psalms 37:3 Psalms 127:1 Psalms 127:3...
How could an all-loving God command the Hebrews to plunder the Egyptians of their riches? PROBLEM: Exodus 3:22 states, “So you shall plunder the Egyptians.” The Bible presents God as all-loving. Howe...