Exodus 2

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:21

Moses was content to dwell with the man . Moses had fled from Egypt without any definite plan, simply to save his life, and had now to determine how he would obtain a subsistence. Received into Reuel's house, or tent, pleased with the man and with his family, he consented to stay with him, probably entered into his service, as Jacob into Laban's ( Genesis 29:15-20 ), kept his sheep, or otherwise made himself useful (see Exodus 3:1 ); and in course of time Reuel gave Moses his daughter,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:21-22

§ 2. Moses as husband and father. The Midianites were descendants of Abraham ( Genesis 25:24 ); and marriage with them was permitted, even under the Law ( Numbers 31:18 ). Moses, in wedding Zipporah, obeyed the primeval command, "Be fruitful and multiply" ( Genesis 1:28 ), while at the same time he gave himself the solace so much needed by an exile, of tender and loving lifelong companionship. That Reuel was willing to give him one of his daughters indicates that he had approved... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:22

Gershom.1. The good man in this world is often lonely at heart.(1) When violence reigns unchecked. (2) When God's cause is in a depressed condition. (3) When repulsed in efforts to do good. (4) When severed from scenes of former labour. (5) When his outward lot is uncongenial. (6) When deprived of suitable companionships, and when he can find few to sympathise with him.2. God sends to the good man alleviations of his loneliness. We may hope that Zipporah, if not without faults, formed a kind... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:22

Life and its moods."He called his name Gershom," etc. ( Exodus 2:22 ), compared with — "And the name of the other was Eliezer," etc. ( Exodus 18:4 ). Note the isolation and misery of the earlier time, and the mercy of the later — each begetting its own tone and mood of mind; and further, the desirability of living above the mood of the passing day. Rev. O . Kingsley says ('Life,' 1:82): "Let us watch against tones. They are unsafe things. The tone of a man or woman's mind ought to be... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:23

In process of time. Literally, "in those many days ." The reign of Rameses II . was exceptionally long, as previously explained. He had already reigned twenty-seven years when Moses fled from him ( Exodus 2:15 ). He had now reigned sixty-seven, and Moses was eighty! It had seemed a weary while to wait. The children of Israel sighed. If the time had seemed a weary while to Moses, how much more to his nation! He had escaped and was in Midian — they toiled on in Egypt. He kept sheep — they... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:23

Death comes at last, even to the proudest monarch.Rameses II . left behind him the reputation of being the greatest of the Egyptian kings. He was confounded with the mythical Sesostris, and regarded as the conqueror of all Western Asia, of Ethiopia, and of a large tract in Europe. His buildings and other great works did, in fact, probably excel those of any other Pharaoh. His reign was the longest, if we except one, of any upon record. He was victorious, by land or sea, over all who resisted... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:23-25

EXPOSITION. DEATH OF THE PHARAOH FROM WHOM MOSES FLED — CONTINUANCE OF THE OPPRESSION OF ISRAEL - ISRAEL 'S PRAYERS — GOD 'S ACCEPTANCE OF THEM . — After a space of forty years from the time of Moses' flight from Egypt, according to the estimate of St. Stephen ( Acts 7:30 ), which is not, however, to be strictly pressed, the king whose anger he had provoked — Rameses II ., as we believe — died. He had reigned sixty-seven years — about... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:23-25

As in streams the water is attracted to and swirls round various centres, so here the interest of the narrative circles about three facts. We have — I . THE KING 'S DEATH . Who the king was may be uncertain. [Some say Aahmes I . . — see Canon Cook, in 'Speaker's Commentary;' others, Rameses II . — see R . S . Poole, In Contemporary Review,' March, 1879.] What he had done is sufficiently evident. Confronted with an alien people, of whose history he knew little and with whom... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:24-25

God heard their groaning. God is said to "hear" the prayers which he accepts and grants; to "be deaf" to those which he does not grant, but rejects. He now "heard" (i.e. accepted) the supplications of oppressed Israel; and on account of the covenant which he had made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob — a covenant always remembered by him — he looked upon his people, made them the objects of his special regard, and entered on a course, which was abnormal, irregular, miraculous, in order to carry... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 2:1

A man ... a daughter of Levi - Amram and Jochebed. See Exodus 6:20. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:21-22

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:22

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:22

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:23

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:23

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:23-25

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:23-25

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:24-25

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 2:1

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