Exodus 2

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 2:22

he . Many codices and a special reading called sevir ( App-34 ), read "she" Gershom . Hebrew "a stranger here". read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 2:23

the king of Egypt . See App-37 . children = sons. sighed. Hebrew. 'a nach, under pressure of evil. cried. Hebrew. zeak: with a loud voice, from sorrow or fear. cry. Hebrew. shav`a, for help in distress. Note the Figure of speech Synonymia ( App-6 ), to emphasise the greatness of the distress; see also Exodus 2:24 and Exodus 2:25 . Can it be that (according to Lightfoot II, 22, Pitman) Psalms 88:0 and Psalms 89:0 come in here? If so, the latter is a wondrous prophecy, containing... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 2:24

groaning . Hebrew. na'ak, denoting heaviest affliction. Note the Figure of speech Synonymia: heard. . . remembered. . . looked . . . had respect. Anaphora: with . . . with . . . with; see note, Genesis 50:24 , not yet revealed to them as Jehovah. Figure of speech Repetitio. App-6 . God, repeated five times. Also the Figure of speech Anthropopatheia ( App-6 ). read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 2

Dominating this chapter is the record of the birth of one of the most important men ever born, that of Moses the great lawgiver of Israel, the deliverer of the Jewish race from Egyptian slavery and the great hero of the Jewish people for more than 4,000 years! His importance, however, pertains not merely to Judaism, but to worldwide Christianity as well, standing in the Old Testament as an outstanding type of the Lord Jesus Christ. The story of his birth (Exodus 2:1-10) is followed by an... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 2:1-2

"And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived and bare a son, and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.""Of the house of Levi ..." This means "a descendant of Levi," but not actually a literal son of Levi who had been dead for centuries as the time of the exodus approached. Levi was the head of the tribe which later became the Levites and who had charge of the religious life of Israel. The names of the... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 2:3-4

"And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink. And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to hint""And when she could no longer hide him ..." There is no use to ask "why" hiding the child soon became impossible. The lusty lungs of a three-months old boy would certainly have revealed him; and, besides that, as Fields quaintly put it,... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 2:5-6

"And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river-side; and she saw the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it. And she opened it, and saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.""Daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe ..." This action does not conform to the behavior of royal daughters in modern times, but it was indeed an event common enough in... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 2:7-9

"Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maiden went and called the child's mother. And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it."Some scholars like to point out what they call resemblances between this Biblical event and other stories of... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 2:10

"And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, and said, Because I drew him out of the water.""She called his name Moses ..." This was, of course, an Egyptian name. "They called water MO, and those who are rescued from water USES."[20] But also it was a word capable of being transliterated into Hebrew. The name is almost exactly the same in both Egyptian and in Hebrew.[21] The name in Egyptian meant "rescued from the... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 2:11-15

"And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren. And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? And he said, Who made... read more

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 2:22

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 2:23

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 2:24

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 2

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 2:1-2

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 2:3-4

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 2:5-6

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 2:7-9

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 2:10

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 2:11-15

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