Exode 2:2, Exode 2:3 BDS

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:1-11

A child of providence. This section recounts the birth, deliverance, and upbringing at the court of Pharaoh, of the future Deliverer of Israel. In which we have to notice — I . AN ACT OF FAITH ON THE PART OF MOSES ' PARENTS . The faith of Moses' parents is signalised in the Epistle to the Hebrews ( Hebrews 11:23 ). Observe — 1. The occasion of its trial. The king's edict threatened the child's life. The ease of Moses was peculiar, yet not entirely so. No... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:2

And the woman conceived . Not for the first time, as appears from Exodus 2:4 , nor even for the second, as we learn from Exodus 7:7 ; but for the third. Aaron was three years old when Moses was born. As no difficulty has occurred with respect to him, we must regard the edict as issued between his birth and that of Moses. When she saw that he was a goodly child. Perhaps Jochebed would have done the same had Moses been ill-favoured, for mothers have often loved best their weakest and... read more

Albert Barnes

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

Bare a son - Not her firstborn; Aaron and Miriam were older than Moses. The object of the writer is simply to narrate the events which led to the Exodus, and he mentions nothing that had no direct bearing upon his purpose.A goodly child - See the marginal references. Probably Jochebed did not call in a midwife Exodus 1:15, and she was of course cautious not to show herself to Egyptians. The hiding of the child is spoken of as an act of faith in Hebrews 11:23. It was done in the belief that God... 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

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 2:1-25

Preparation of Moses (2:1-25)Moses was the person God chose to save his people and lead them out of Egypt. He was born of godly Hebrew parents, who no doubt taught him that the true and living God was the only legitimate object of human worship, and this God had chosen Israel to be his people. At the same time Moses grew up in the Egyptian palace, where he was trained in the best learning and culture available at that time (2:1-10; see Acts 7:22; Hebrews 11:23).By the time he was forty years of... read more

E.W. Bullinger

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

a son. Moses was the seventh from Abraham, Abraham the seventh from Heber, Enoch the seventh from Adam. Miriam already born (Exodus 2:4 , Numbers 26:59 ). Also Aaron (Exodus 7:7 ). goodly . Hebrew. tov. Septuagint and Acts 7:20 , Hebrews 11:23 . asteios to Theo, "beautiful to God" = divinely fair. hid him . This was "by faith" (Hebrews 11:23 ). Therefore she must have "heard. "from God (Romans 10:17 and Hebrews 11:7 ), or it would have been through affection or fancy. All the steps taken... 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

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 2:2

Exodus 2:2. A goodly child— Fair to GOD, αστειος τω Θεω, as St. Stephen calls him, Acts 7:20. And prophane authors agree with the sacred writers with respect to the peculiar beauty of this infant. The Jews have a thousand childish stories on this occasion. The famous Huet conjectures, that the fable of the birth of Adonis arose from this history. It is not to be supposed that the beauty of the child was the sole cause of his mother's tenderness to him; or that, had it been less, she would have... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Exodus 2:2

2. the woman . . . bare a son, &c.—Some extraordinary appearance of remarkable comeliness led his parents to augur his future greatness. Beauty was regarded by the ancients as a mark of the divine favor. hid him three months—The parents were a pious couple, and the measures they took were prompted not only by parental attachment, but by a strong faith in the blessing of God prospering their endeavors to save the infant. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 2:1-5

The names of Moses’ parents were Amram and Jochebed (Exodus 6:20)."At this point Scripture’s aim is to inform us that from an ordinary man, . . . and from an ordinary woman, . . . whose names there was no need to mention [at this point], God raised up a redeemer unto his people." [Note: Cassuto, p. 17.] It is not clear from the text if Moses was an unusually beautiful child physically or if he was distinctive in some other respect (Exodus 2:2). Some commentators translated "beautiful" as... read more