Exodus 6:7

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 6:7-9

Exodus 6:7-9. I will take you to me for a people A peculiar people; and I will be to you a God And more than this we need not ask, we cannot have, to make us happy. I am the Lord And therefore have power to dispose of lands and kingdoms as I please. But they hearkened not to Moses, for anguish of spirit That is, they were so taken up with their troubles that they did not heed him. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 6:1-27

5:1-15:21 DELIVERANCE FROM EGYPTMoses’ first meeting with Pharaoh (5:1-6:27)In the eyes of the Israelites, Moses’ first meeting with Pharaoh was a disaster. Pharaoh had no fear of Yahweh and no concern for Yahweh’s people. In fact, when Moses asked to take his people into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to Yahweh, Pharaoh responded by accusing the Israelites of laziness and making their work harder (5:1-14). This not only increased the suffering of the Israelites but also caused them to turn... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 6:7-9

"And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah your God, who bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. And I will bring you in unto the land which I sware to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for a heritage: I am Jehovah. And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.""Hearkened not unto Moses ..." This is not hard... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 6:7

Exodus 6:7. I will take you— "I will now take you under my peculiar protection; separate you to me for a people; and become, in an especial and distinguishing manner, your God." read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 6:2-7

2. Moses and Aaron’s equipment as God’s messengers 6:2-7:7The writer gave the credentials of God and His representatives, Moses and Aaron, in these verses. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 6:2-9

God explained to Moses that He would indeed deliver Israel out of Egypt in spite of the discouragement that Moses had encountered so far. God proceeded to remind Moses of His promises to the patriarchs and to reveal more of Himself by expounding one of His names."During the patriarchal period the characteristic name of God was ’God Almighty’ (Exodus 6:3; see, for example, Genesis 17:1), the usual translation of the Hebrew El Shaddai, which probably literally means ’God, the Mountain One.’ That... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 6:1-30

The Renewal of the Promise. Genealogies of Reuben, Simeon, and Levi1. The strong hand is the hand of Jehovah, not of Pharaoh. So RV renders, ’by a strong hand,’ i.e. under the compelling force of Jehovah’s judgments: see on Exodus 3:19.3. The name of God Almighty] Heb. El Shaddai, which occurs first in the revelation made to Abraham (Genesis 17:1 cp. also Genesis 28:3; Genesis 48:3). It is here said that God was not known in the patriarchal times by the name Jehovah. This constitutes a... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 6:7

(7) I will take you to me for a people.—Comp. Exodus 19:5-6; Deuteronomy 7:6. The selection of Israel as a “peculiar people” did not involve the abandonment of all other nations, as we see by the instances of Balaam, Ruth, Job, Nebuchadnezzar, Darius the Mede, Cyrus, and others. God always continued to “govern all the nations upon the earth” (Psalms 67:4); and “in every nation those that feared him and worked righteousness” were accepted with him (Acts 10:35). The centurion of the Gospels... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Exodus 6:1-30

The Names of God Exodus 6:2-3 If we read into the first of these two verses 'Jehovah' for 'Lord,' we shall get the exact balance and contrast of what was here said to Moses. A name is just the utterance of character. That is its first and proper meaning. It is the putting out of a character in a human word, and that is just what God meant when He gave Himself these various names. They were intended to be such utterances as men and women could easily understand and apply by understanding them... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Exodus 6:1-30

CHAPTER VI.THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF MOSES.Exodus 6:1-30.We have seen that the name Jehovah expresses not a philosophic meditation, but the most bracing and reassuring truth--viz., that an immutable and independent Being sustains His people; and this great title is therefore reaffirmed with emphasis in the hour of mortal discouragement. It is added that their fathers knew God by the name of God Almighty, but by His name Jehovah was He not known, or made known, unto them. Now, it is quite clear that... read more

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