Exo 2:1-10, 2Sa 4:4, 2Ki 11:2, Mat 2:13-14 | TSK | STEP | Moses is born, and in an ark cast into the flags. He is found, and brought up by Pharaoh's daughter; who employs his mother to nurse him. He slays an Egyptian. He reproves an Hebrew. He flees into Midian, and marries Zipporah. Gershom is born. God respects the Israelites' cry. A.M. 2432. B.C. 1572. of the house.

‏ Exodus 2:1-10

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

‏ 2 Samuel 4:4

Jonathan.

9:3

when the tidings.

1Sa 29:1,11; 31:1-10

Mephibosheth.

1Ch 8:34; 9:40

Meribbaal.

‏ 2 Kings 11:2

Jehosheba.

2Ch 22:11

Jehoshabeath. Joram.

8:16

Jehoram. Joash.

12:1,2

Jehoash. they hid him.

8:19; Pr 21:30; Isa 7:6,7; 37:35; 65:8,9; Jer 33:17,21,26

in the bed-chamber.{Bachadar hammittoth,} "in a chamber of beds;" which Sir J. Chardin thinks does not mean a room to sleep in, but a chamber used as a repository for beds; for, in the East, they sleep upon cotton mattresses, "of which they have several in great houses, against they should have occasion, and a room on purpose for them."

1Ki 6:5,6,8,10; Jer 35:2; Eze 40:45

‏ Matthew 2:13-14

the angel.

19; 1:20; Ac 5:19; 10:7,22; 12:11; Heb 1:13,14

Arise.

10:23; Re 12:6,14

until.

19,20; Jos 3:13,17; 4:10,18; Da 3:25,26; Ac 16:36

for.

16; Ex 1:22; 2:2,3; Job 33:15,17; Ac 7:19; Re 12:4

20,21; 1:24; Ac 26:21