Exodus 2:25

2:23-25 The Israelites' bondage in Egypt continued, though the murdering of their infants did not continue. Sometimes the Lord suffers the rod of the wicked to lie very long and very heavy on the lot of the righteous. At last they began to think of God under their troubles. It is a sign that the Lord is coming towards us with deliverance, when he inclines and enables us to cry to him for it. God heard their groaning; he made it to appear that he took notice of their complaints. He remembered his covenant, of which he is ever mindful. He considered this, and not any merit of theirs. He looked upon the children of Israel. Moses looked upon them, and pitied them; but now God looked upon them, and helped them. He had respect unto them. His eyes are now fixed upon Israel, to show himself in their behalf. God is ever thus, a very present help in trouble. Take courage then, ye who, conscious of guilt and thraldom, are looking to Him for deliverance. God in Christ Jesus is also looking upon you. A call of love is joined with a promise of the Redeemer. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest, Mt 11:28.

And God looked upon the children of Israel,.... With an eye of pity and compassion, and saw all the hardships they laboured under, and all the injuries that were done unto them: and God had respect unto them; had a favourable regard to them; or "knew" (b) not only them, the Israelites, and loved them, and approved of them, and owned them as his own, all which words of knowledge sometimes signify; but he knew their sorrows and sufferings, and took notice of what was done to them secretly; see Exodus 3:7. (b) "et eognovit", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Remembered - This means that God was moved by their prayers to give effect to the covenant, of which an essential condition was the faith and contrition involved in the act of supplication. The whole history of Israel is foreshadowed in these words: God heard, remembered, looked upon, and knew them. It evidently indicates the beginning of a crisis marked by a personal intervention of God.

Remembered - This means that God was moved by their prayers to give effect to the covenant, of which an essential condition was the faith and contrition involved in the act of supplication. The whole history of Israel is foreshadowed in these words: God heard, remembered, looked upon, and knew them. It evidently indicates the beginning of a crisis marked by a personal intervention of God.

23. the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage—The language seems to imply that the Israelites had experienced a partial relaxation, probably through the influence of Moses' royal patroness; but in the reign of her father's successor the persecution was renewed with increased severity.

"God heard their crying, and remembered His covenant with the fathers: "and God saw the children of Israel, and God noticed them." "This seeing and noticing had regard to the innermost nature of Israel, namely, as the chosen seed of Abraham" (Baumgarten). God's notice has all the energy of love and pity. Lyra has aptly explained ויּדע thus: "ad modum cognoscentis se habuit, ostendendo dilectionem circa eos;" and Luther has paraphrased it correctly: "He accepted them."

[Bible] 2:20. But he said: Where is he? why have you let the man go? call him that he may eat bread. 2:21. And Moses swore that he would dwell with him. And he took Sephora his daughter to wife: 2:22. And she bore him a son, whom he called Gersam, saying: I have been a stranger in a foreign country. And she bore another, whom he called Eliezer, saying: For the God of my father, my helper, hath delivered me out of the hand of Pharao. Gersam... Or Gershom. This name signifies a stranger there: as Eliezer signifies the help of God. 2:23. Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groaning, cried out because of the works: and their cry went up unto God from the works. 2:24. And he heard their groaning, and remembered the covenant which he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 2:25. And the Lord looked upon the children of Israel, and he knew them. Knew them... That is, he had respect to them, he cast a merciful eye upon them. Exodus Chapter 3 God appeareth to Moses in a bush, and sendeth him to deliver Israel. 3:1. Now Moses fed the sheep of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Madian: and he drove the flock to the inner parts of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb. 3:2. And the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he saw that the bush was on fire, and was not burnt. The Lord appeared... That is, an angel representing God, and speaking in his name. 3:3. And Moses said: I will go, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. 3:4. And when the Lord saw that he went forward to see, he called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said: Moses, Moses. And he answered: Here I am. 3:5. And he said: Come not nigh hither, put off the shoes from thy feet; for the place, whereon thou standest, is holy ground. 3:6. And he said: I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Moses hid his face: for he durst not look at God.

[Reformed Biblical] ty years, as appears by comparing Exo_7:7, with Act_7:30. ## The king of Egypt died; and after him one or two more of his sons or successors, and the rest who sought for Moses’s life, Exo_4:19. ## The children of Israel sighed, because though th eir great oppressor was dead, yet they found no relief, as they hoped to do. Exodus 2:24 Exodus 2:25 Heb. Knew them, so as to p ity and help them; as words of knowledge are oft used, as Psa_1:6 31:7. He who seemed to have rejected them, now owned them for his people, and came for their rescue. ## Exodus 3:1 EXODUS CHAPTER 3 ## Moses keeping Jethro’s flock, cometh to mount Horeb, Exo_3:1. There God appears to him in a burning bush, Exo_3:2. Moses beholds it, Exo_3:3. God calls to him out of the burning bush, Exo_3:4; cautions him what to do, Exo_3:5 ,6 . God seeth their afflictions, Exo_3:7; promises them a happy deliverance, Exo_3:8; sends Moses to Pharaoh, Exo_3:10. He desires to be excused because un worthy, Exo_

[Reformed Biblical] which they might have done many times secretly, and therefore it was only the fear of God which restrained them from it. Exodus 1:21 ## i.e. God greatly increased their families both in children and posterity, and in wealth, and other outward blessings. So this phrase is used Gen_30:30 Deu_25:9 1Sa_2:35 1Ki_2:24 11:38 ## Psa_127:1. As houses are commonly put for families, so building is put for procreating of children, Gen_16:2 30:3. Exodus 1:22 1573 No text from Poole on this verse. ## Exodus 2:1 EXODUS CHAPTER 2 Moses’s parentage and birth, Exo_2:1,2. His mother makes an ark, puts him therein, Exo_2:3. Pharaoh’s daughter going to wash herself, seeth him, takes him for her own child, and gives him to his mother to nurse, Exo_2:4-9. Moses seeing an Israelite wronged by an Egyptian, kills him, Exo_2:11,12. Pharaoh hearing this, seeks to slay Moses; he flees to Midian, Exo_2:15. There he rescues Reuel’s daughters from the violence of the shepherds, Exo_2:17; ser ves Reuel, and marries his daughter Zipporah, Exo 21. She bears him a son, his name, and the reason of it, Exo_2:22. God heareth the cry of the Israelites, Exo_2:23-25. ## There went a man, viz. Amram , Exo_6:20 Num_26:58,59 from the place of his abode to another place for the following purpose. A daughter of Levi, namely Joche