Gen 17:8, Exo 1-2, Exo 5, 22:21, 23:9, Lev 19:34, Deu 10:19, Psa 105:11 | TSK | STEP | And I. wherein thou art a stranger. Heb. of thy sojournings. everlasting. their.

Genesis 17:8

And I.

12:7; 13:15,17; 15:7-21; Ps 105:9,11

wherein thou art a stranger. Heb. of thy sojournings.

23:4; 28:4

everlasting.

48:4; Ex 21:6; 31:16,17; 40:15; Le 16:34; Nu 25:13; De 32:8; 2Sa 23:5

Ps 103:17; Heb 9:15

their.

Ex 6:7; Le 26:12; De 4:37; 14:2; 26:18; 29:13

Exodus 1

had made.

1,24-26; Jos 24:27-29; Heb 11:22

and yielded.

29; 15:5; 25:8,17; 35:29; Job 5:26; 14:10; 30:23; Ec 12:7; Isa 57:1,2

Lu 2:29; Heb 11:13-16; 12:23 The title of this Book is derived from the Septuagint; in which it is called [exodos,], "Exodus;" or, as it is in the Codex Alexandrinus, [exodos aiguptou,] "the Exodus or departure from Egypt;" but it is called in Hebrew Bibles [w'lh shmwt,] {Weelleh Shemoth,} "these are the names", or merely, [shmwt,] {Shemoth,} "names", from the words with which it commences.

1 The children of Israel, after Joseph's death, increase.

8 The more they are oppressed by a new king, the more they multiply.

15 The godliness of the midwives, in saving the men children alive.

22 Pharaoh commands the male children to be cast into the river.

6:14-16; Ge 29:31-35; 30:1-21; 35:18,23-26; 46:8-26; 49:3-27

1Ch 2:1,2; 12:23-40; 27:16-22; Re 7:4-8

Reuben.

Ge 35:22

Issachar.

Ge 35:23

Benjamin.

28:20

loins. Heb. thigh.

Ge 46:26; Jud 8:30; *marg:

seventy.

20; Ge 46:26,27; De 10:22

A.M. 2369. B.C. 1635.

Ge 50:24,26; Ac 7:14-16

fruitful.

12:37; Ge 1:20,28; 9:1; 12:2; 13:16; 15:5; 17:4-6,16; 22:17; 26:4

Ge 28:3,4,14; 35:11; 46:3; 47:27; 48:4,16; De 10:22; 26:5; Ne 9:23

Ps 105:24; Ac 7:17,18

a new king.Probably Rameses Miamum, or his son Amenophis, who succeeded him about this period; and by his not knowing Joseph is meant his not acknowledging his obligation to him.

Ec 2:18,19; 9:15; Ac 7:18

the people.

Nu 22:4,5; Job 5:2; Ps 105:24,25; Pr 14:28; 27:4; Ec 4:4; Tit 3:3

Jas 3:14-16; 4:5

Come on.

Ps 10:2; 83:3,4; Pr 1:11

wisely.

Nu 22:6; Job 5:13; Ps 105:25; Pr 16:25; 21:30; Ac 7:19; 23:12

1Co 3:18-20; Jas 3:15-18

to afflict.

3:7; 5:15; Ge 15:13; Nu 20:15; De 26:6

burdens.

2:11; 5:4,5; Ps 68:13; 81:6; 105:13

Raamses.

Ge 47:11; Pr 27:4

But the more, etc. Heb. and as they afflicted them, so theymultiplied, etc.

Ps 105:24; Pr 21:30; Ro 8:28; Heb 12:6-11

grieved.

9; Job 5:2; Pr 27:4; Joh 12:19; Ac 4:2-4; 5:28-33

their lives.

2:23; 6:9; Ge 15:13; Nu 20:15; De 4:20; 26:6; Ru 1:20; Ac 7:19,34

in mortar.

Ps 68:13; 81:6; Na 3:14

was with rigour.

13; 5:7-21; 20:2; Le 25:43,46,53; Isa 14:6; 51:23; 52:5; 58:6

Jer 50:33,34; Mic 3:3

and see them.Or, rather, "and ye see them by the stone-troughs;" for so {ovnayim,} from {aven,} a stone, seems to signify (compare ch. 7:19), in which they washed the new-born infants. See this subject fully illustrated in Fragments to Calmet, Nos. 312, 313.

then ye shall.

22; Mt 21:38; Re 12:4

feared God.

Ge 20:11; 42:18; Ne 5:15; Ps 31:19; Pr 8:13; 16:6; 24:11,12; Ec 8:12

Ec 12:13; Da 3:16-18; 6:13; Ho 5:11; Mic 6:16; Mt 10:28; Lu 12:5

Ac 4:19; 5:29

Why have.

2Sa 13:28; Ec 8:4

Jos 2:4-24; 1Sa 21:2; 2Sa 17:19,20

God.

Ps 41:1,2; 61:5; 85:9; 103:11; 111:5; 145:19; Pr 11:18; 19:17

Ec 8:12; Isa 3:10; Mt 10:42; 25:40; Lu 1:50; Heb 6:10

the people.

7,12

made them.

1Sa 2:35; 25:28; 2Sa 7:11-13,27-29; 1Ki 2:24; 11:38; Ps 37:3

Ps 127:1,3; Pr 24:3; Ec 8:12; Jer 35:2

A.M. 2431. B.C. 1573. Every son.

16; 7:19-21; Ps 105:25; Pr 1:16; 4:16; 27:4; Ac 7:19; Re 16:4-6

Exodus 2

1 Moses is born, and in an ark cast into the flags.

5 He is found, and brought up by Pharaoh's daughter;

7 who employs his mother to nurse him.

11 He slays an Egyptian.

13 He reproves an Hebrew.

15 He flees into Midian, and marries Zipporah.

22 Gershom is born.

23 God respects the Israelites' cry.

A.M. 2432. B.C. 1572. of the house.

6:16-20; Nu 26:59; 1Ch 6:1-3; 23:12-14

A.M. 2433. B.C. 1571. she saw.

Ps 112:5; Ac 7:20; Heb 11:23

could not.

1:22; Mt 2:13,16; Ac 7:19

an ark.

Isa 18:2

bulrushes.{Gomé,} is the papyrus, so famous in all antiquity. It grows on the banks of the Nile, and in marshy grounds; the stalk rises to the height of six or seven cubits above the water, is triangular, and terminates in a crown of small filaments, resembling hair. This reed was of the greatest use to the Egyptians; the pith serving them for food, and the woody part to build vessels with; which vessels frequently appear on various monuments of Egyptian antiquity. That boats were made of this reed is also attested by Pliny and others.

with slime.

Ge 6:14; 11:3; 14:10

15:20; Nu 12:1-15; 20:1; 26:59; Mic 6:4

daughter.

Ac 7:21

herself.As the word herself is not in the original, Dr. A. Clarke is of opinion that it was for the purpose of washing, not her person, but her clothes, that Pharaoh's daughter came to the river; which was an employment not beneath even king's daughters in those primitive times.

when she.

1Ki 17:6; Ps 9:9; 12:5; 46:1; 76:10; Pr 21:1; Jon 1:17; 2:10

she had compassion.

1Ki 8:50; Ne 1:11; Ps 106:46; Pr 21:1; Ac 7:21; 1Pe 3:8

4; 15:20; Nu 12:1; 26:59

Go.

Ps 27:10; Isa 46:3,4; Eze 16:8

mother.

6:20

and he.

Ge 48:5; Ac 7:21,22; Ga 4:5; Heb 11:24; 1Jo 3:1

Moses. Drawn out. Because.

Ge 4:25; 16:11; 1Sa 1:20; Mt 1:21

A.M. 2473. B.C. 1531. Moses.

Ac 7:22-24; Heb 11:24-26

burdens.

1:11; 3:7; 5:9,14; Isa 58:6; Mt 11:28; Lu 4:18

he looked.

Ac 7:24-26

slew.If the Egyptian killed the Hebrew, Moses only acted agreeably to the divine law (Ge 9:6) in thus slaying the Egyptian; nor did he violate the law of Egypt; for, according to Diodorus Siculus (1. 1. 17), "he who saw a man killed, or violently assaulted on the highway, and did not rescue him, if he could, was punished with death." Moses, therefore, in this transaction, acted as a brave and good man; especially as at this time there was little probability of obtaining justice on an Egyptian murderer.

and he said.

Ac 7:26; 1Co 6:7,8

Who.

Ge 19:9; 37:8-11,19,20; Nu 16:3,13; Ps 2:2-6; Mt 21:23; Lu 12:14

Lu 19:14,27; Ac 7:26-28,35

a prince. Heb. a man, a prince.

Ge 13:8

Moses.

Pr 19:12; 29:25

fled.

4:19; Ge 28:6,7; 1Ki 19:1-3,13,14; Pr 22:3; Jer 26:21-23; Mt 10:23

Ac 7:29; Heb 11:27

Midian.

Ge 25:2,4

sat down.

Ge 24:11; 29:2; Joh 4:6

the priest. or, prince.

3:1; Ge 14:18; 41:45; *marg:

they came.

Ge 24:11,14-20; 29:6-10; 1Sa 9:11

shepherds.

watered.

Jethro. or, Jether.

Raguel.

an Egyptian.

Ge 50:11

and also.

Ge 29:10

call him.

Ge 24:31-33; 18:5; 19:2,3; 29:13; 31:54; 43:25; Job 31:32; 42:11

1Ti 5:10; Heb 13:2

content.

10; Ge 31:38-40; Php 4:11,12; 1Ti 6:6; Heb 11:25; 13:5; Jas 1:10

Zipporah.

4:20-25; 18:2-6; Nu 12:1

Gershom. i.e., a stranger here.

1Ch 23:14-17

for he said.

10; 18:3; 22:21; 1Ch 16:20; 29:15; Ps 39:12; 119:19; Ac 7:29

Heb 11:13,14

A.M. cir. 2504. B.C. cir. 1500. in process.

7:7; Ac 7:30

the king.

4:19; Mt 2:19,20; Ac 12:23,24

sighed.

Ge 16:11; Nu 20:16; De 26:6,7; Ps 12:5

cry.

3:7-9; 22:22-27; Ge 4:10; 18:20,21; De 24:15; Jud 10:11,12; Ne 9:9

Ps 18:6; 81:6,7; 107:19,20; Isa 5:7; 19:20; Jas 5:4

God heard.

6:5; Jud 2:18; Ne 9:27,28; Ps 22:5,24; 79:11; 102:20; 138:3

remembered.

Ge 15:14-18; 17:7; 18:18; 26:3,24; 28:12-14; 32:28; 46:2-4; Ne 9:8,9

Ps 105:6-13,42; 106:45; Lu 1:72,73

looked.

4:31; 1Sa 1:11; 2Sa 16:12; Job 33:27; Lu 1:25

God.For {elohim,} God, Houbigant reads {aleyhem,} unto them; which is countenanced by the LXX., Vulgate, Chaldee, Coptic, and Arabic, and appears to have been the original reading.

had respect. Heb. knew.

1:8; 3:7,8; Ps 1:6; 55:22; Mt 7:23

Exodus 5

1 Pharaoh chides Moses and Aaron for their message.

6 He increases the Israelites' task.

15 He checks their complaints.

19 They cry out upon Moses and Aaron.

22 Moses complains to God.

and told.

1Ki 21:20; Ps 119:46; Eze 2:6; Jon 3:3,4; Mt 10:18,28; Ac 4:29

a feast.

10:9; Isa 25:6; 1Co 5:8

Who.

3:19; 2Ki 18:35; 2Ch 32:15,19; Job 21:15; Ps 10:4; 12:4; 14:1

I know not.

1Sa 2:12; Joh 16:3; Ro 1:28; 2Th 1:8

neither.

3:19; Jer 44:16,17

The God.

3:18

lest he.

De 28:21; 2Ki 17:25; 2Ch 30:8; Ezr 7:23; Eze 6:11; Zec 14:16-19

wherefore.

Jer 38:4; Am 7:10; Lu 23:2; Ac 16:20,21; 24:5

let.{Taphreeoo,} from {pard,} to loose, disengage; and which we render let, from the Anglo-Saxon {lettan,} to hinder. Ye hinder the people from their work: "Get you unto your burdens." "Let religion alone and mind your work." The language not only of tyranny, but of thoughtless irreligion.

burdens.

1:11

1:7-11; Pr 14:28

taskmasters.{Nogesim,} literally, exactors, oppressors. These taskmasters were Egyptians, (ch. 1:11,) but the officers were Hebrews. See ver. 14.

10,13,15,19; 1:11; Pr 12:10

officers.{Shoterim,} from the Arabic {saytara,} to overlook, superintend, seems to denote, as {musaytar} in Arabic also does, overseers, superintendents. They may have been somewhat like the chiefs of trades, who are found in every city in the East; where every trade has a head, who is entrusted with authority over them, and is in some measure answerable for them to Government. Compare ch. 2:14.

Nu 11:16; De 1:15; 16:18; Jos 8:33; 24:1,4; 2Ch 26:11

straw.The straw was mixed with clay, in order to make the bricks. This is expressly affirmed by Philo, (vit. Mos.) who was himself a native of Alexandria, in Egypt. He says, describing the oppression of the Israelites, that some were obliged to work in clay, and others to gather straw for the formation of bricks, [plinthou gar achyra desmos,] because straw is the binding of the brick. Philo's account is confirmed by Dr. Shaw, who says that "some of the Egyptian pyramids are made of brick, the composition whereof is only a mixture of clay, mud, and straw, slightly blended and kneaded together, and afterwards baked in the sun. The straw, which keeps the bricks together, and still preserves its original colour, seems to be a proof that these bricks were never burnt or made in kilns." The same materials are now used for building in Egypt. Mr. Baumgarten says, "The houses are for the most part of bricks that are only hardened by the heat of the sun, and mixed with straw to make them firm."

Ge 24:25; Jud 19:19

tale.Tale denotes number, from the Anglo-Saxon {tællan,} to number, count, etc.

ye shall lay.

Ps 106:41

Let there more work be laid upon the men. Heb. Let the workbe heavy upon the men. vain words.

2Ki 18:20; Job 16:3; Jer 43:2; Zec 1:6; Mal 3:14; Eph 5:6

taskmasters.

1:11; Pr 29:12

not ought.

13,14

stubble.

15:7; Isa 5:24; 47:14; Joe 2:5; Na 1:10; Ob 1:18; 1Co 3:12