Exodus 1:11 NIV

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Exodus 1:11

11. Therefore they did set over them taskmasters—Having first obliged them, it is thought, to pay a ruinous rent and involved them in difficulties, that new government, in pursuance of its oppressive policy, degraded them to the condition of serfs—employing them exactly as the laboring people are in the present day (driven in companies or bands), in rearing the public works, with taskmasters, who anciently had sticks—now whips—to punish the indolent, or spur on the too languid. All public or... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 1:1-21

I. THE LIBERATION OF ISRAEL 1:1-15:21"The story of the first half of Exodus, in broad summary, is Rescue. The story of the second half, in equally broad summary, is Response, both immediate response and continuing response. And binding together and undergirding both Rescue and Response is Presence, the Presence of Yahweh from whom both Rescue and Response ultimately derive." [Note: Durham, p. xxiii.] A. God’s preparation of Israel and Moses chs. 1-4 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 1:8-14

The new king (Exodus 1:8) may have been Ahmose (Greek Amosis) who founded the eighteenth dynasty and the New Kingdom and ruled from 1570 to 1546 B.C. However, he was probably one of Ahmose’s immediate successors, Amenhotep I or, most likely, Thutmose I. The Egyptian capital at this time was Zoan (Gr. Tanis). Ahmose was the first native Egyptian Pharaoh for many years. Preceding him was a series of Hyksos rulers. [Note: See Aharon Kempinski, "Jacob in History," Biblical Archaeology Review 14:1... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 1:8-22

2. The Israelites’ bondage in Egypt 1:8-22This pericope serves a double purpose. It introduces the rigorous conditions under which the Egyptians forced the Israelites to live, and it sets the stage for the birth of Moses. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 1:1-22

Oppression of the Israelites5. Seventy souls] Jacob himself is included in the number: cp. Genesis 46:8-27. Of the seventy, sixty-eight were males. If to the direct descendants of Jacob we add the wives of his sons and grandsons, and the husbands of his daughters and grand-daughters, and all their servants with their families, it appears that the total number of those who entered Egypt was very considerable, several hundreds if not thousands. This fact, as well as the acknowlodged prolificness... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 1:11

(11) Task-masters.—Heb., chiefs of tributes. The Egyptian system of forced labour, which it was now resolved to extend to the Israelites, involved the appointment of two sets of officers—a lower class, who personally overlooked the labourers, and forced them to perform their tasks, and a higher class of superintendents, who directed the distribution of the labour, and assigned to all the tasks which they were to execute. The “task-masters” of the present passage are these high officials.To... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Exodus 1:1-22

Exodus 1:8 It is a rare thing to find posterity heirs of their father's love. How should men's favour be but like themselves, variable and inconstant! There is no certainty but in the favour of God, in whom can be no change, whose love is entailed upon a thousand generations. Bishop Hall. Exodus 1:10 Crimes and criminals are swept away by time, nature finds an antidote for their poisons, and they and their ill consequences alike are blotted out and perish. If we do not forgive the villain at... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Exodus 1:7-22

THE OPPRESSION.Exodus 1:7-22.At the beginning of the history of Israel we find a prosperous race. It was indeed their growing importance, and chiefly their vast numerical increase, which excited the jealousy of their rulers, at the very time when a change of dynasty removed the sense of obligation. It is a sound lesson in political as well as personal godliness that prosperity itself is dangerous, and needs special protection from on high.Is it merely by chance again that we find in this first... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Exodus 1:1-22

Analysis and Annotations I. ISRAEL'S DELIVERANCE OUT OF THE HANDS OF THE EGYPTIANS 1. The House of Bondage CHAPTER 1 1. The names of the children of Israel; their increase (Exodus 1:1-7 ) 2. The new king and his policy (Exodus 1:8-11 ) 3. The continued increase (Exodus 1:12 ) 4. Their hard bondage (Exodus 1:13-14 ) 5. The midwives commanded (Exodus 1:15-16 ) 6. Their disobedience and God’s reward (Exodus 1:17-21 ) 7. Pharaoh’s charge to all his people (Exodus 1:22 ) The... read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 1:1-22

ISRAEL MULTIPLIED (vs.1-7) The first five verses of Exodus indicate its continuity with the book of Genesis, for they confirm what is written in more detail in Genesis 46:8-27. This small number of 70 persons, however, rather than integrating with the Egyptian nation, which would be normally expected, maintained an identity totally distinct from them. Since that time too, even though Israel has been scattered for centuries among other nations, God has preserved a clear distinction between... read more

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Exodus 1:11

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 1:1-21

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 1:8-14

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 1:8-22

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 1:1-22

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 1:11

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Exodus 1:1-22

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Exodus 1:7-22

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Exodus 1:1-22

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 1:1-22

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