Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 2:19
An Egyptian - They judged from his costume, or language. read more
Exodus 2
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 2:21
Moses tells us nothing of what he may have learned from his father-in-law, but he must have found in him a man conversant with the traditions of the family of Abraham; nor is there any improbability in the supposition that, as hereditary priest, Reuel may have possessed written documents concerning their common ancestors. read more
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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 2:22
Gershom - The first syllable “Ger” is common to Hebrew and Egyptian, and means “sojourner.” The second syllable “Shom” answers exactly to the Coptic “Shemmo,” which means “a foreign or strange land.” read more
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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 2:23
In process of time - Nearly forty years Acts 7:30. This verse marks the beginning of another section. We now enter at once upon the history of the Exodus.Their cry came up unto God - This statement, taken in connection with the two following verses, proves that the Israelites retained their faith in the God of their Fathers. The divine name, “God,” אלהים 'ĕlohı̂ym, is chosen because it was that which the Israelites must have used in their cry for help, that under which the covenant had been... read more
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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 2:24
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. read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 2
A.M. 2433. B.C. 1571. This chapter begins the story of Moses, the most remarkable type of Christ as Prophet, Saviour, Lawgiver, and Mediator, in all the Old Testament. In this chapter we have, ( 1,) The perils of his birth and infancy, Exodus 2:1-4 . (2,) His preservation through those perils, and the preferment of his childhood and youth, Exodus 2:5-10 . (3,) The pious choice of his riper years, which was to own the people of God;1, He offered them his service, if they would have... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 2:1
Exodus 2:1. There went a man Amram, from the place of his abode to another place. A daughter That is, grand-daughter of Levi. read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 2:2
Exodus 2:2. Bare a son It seems just at the time of his birth that cruel law was made for the murder of all the male children of the Hebrews, and many no doubt perished by the execution of it. Moses’s parents had Miriam and Aaron, both elder than he, born to them before that edict came out. Probably his mother had little joy of her being with child of him, now this edict was in force. Yet this child proves the glory of his father’s house. Observe the beauty of Providence: just when... read more
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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 2:3
Exodus 2:3. When she could no longer hide him For fear of being informed against by some of her Egyptian neighbours, with whom the Israelites lived intermixed, Exodus 3:22. Thus Moses, who was afterward to be the deliverer of Israel, was himself upon the point of falling a sacrifice to the fury of the oppressor; God so ordered it, that being told of this he might be the more animated with zeal for the deliverance of his brethren out of the hands of such bloody men. She took for him an ark... read more
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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 2:18
Reuel - Or, as in Numbers 10:29, “Raguel.” The name means “friend of God.” It appears to have been not uncommon among Hebrews and Edomites; e. g. Genesis 36:4, Genesis 36:10. If Reuel be identified with Jethro, a point open to grave objection (see Exodus 3:1), then Reuel was his proper name, and Jether or Jethro, which means “excellency,” was his official designation. read more