Exodus 1:2-10 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 1:1-5

The patriarchal names. I. THE NAMES IN THEMSELVES . Nothing seems to the ordinary reader of Holy Scripture so dry and uninteresting as a bare catalogue of names. Objections are even made to reading them as parts of Sunday or week-day "lessons." But " ALL Scripture," rightly viewed, "is profitable" ( 2 Timothy 3:16 ). Each Hebrew name has a meaning, and was given with a purpose. What a wealth of joys and sorrows, hopes and fears, surmises, triumphs, jealousies, is hid up in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 1:1-6

The Book of Exodus, being written in continuation of the history recorded in Genesis, is carefully connected with it by a recapitulation. The recapitulation involves three points:— 1 . The names of Jacob's children; 2 . The number of Jacob's descendants who went down into Egypt; and 3 . The death of Joseph. Exodus 1:1-4 are a recapitulation of Genesis 35:22-26 ; Genesis 35:5 , of Genesis 46:27 ; and Genesis 46:6 , of Genesis 1:26 . In no case, however, is the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 1:1-6

The twelve foundations. The heads of the covenant race had hitherto been single individuals. Abraham—IsaActs—Jacob. The one now expands into the twelve. Glance briefly at this list of the patriarchs. I. THE MEN . Here we are struck— 1 . With the original unfitness of most of these men for the position of dignity they were afterwards called to occupy. How shall we describe them! Recall Reuben's incest; Simeon and Levi's cruelty; Judah's lewdness; the "evil report" which Joseph... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 1:1-7

Tarry thou the Lord's leisure. Introduction to the Book of Exodus. How much summed up in so few words. When men live history, every month seems important; when God records history a few sentences suffice for generations. Man ' s standpoint in the midst of the tumult is so different from God's: he "sitteth above the waterflood" and seeth "the end from the beginning" ( Psalms 29:10 ; Isaiah 46:10 ). From God's standpoint we have here as of main consequence— I. A LIST OF ... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 1:1-22

The prosperity of Israel. This prosperity was not a mere appearance, nor a passing spurt of fortune. It was a deep, abiding, and significant reality. Nor was it something exaggerated in order to make an excuse for the cruelties of a suspicious tyrant. There was indeed only too much to make Pharaoh uneasy; but altogether apart from his alarms there is a plain and emphatic statement of the prosperity of Israel in Exodus 1:7 . It is a very emphatic statement indeed, summoning us m the most... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 1:2-5

The sons of the legitimate wives Leah and Rachel are placed first, in the order of their seniority ( Genesis 29:32-35 ; Genesis 30:18-20 ; Genesis 35:18 ); then these of the secondary wives, or concubines, also in the order of their birth ( Genesis 30:6-13 ). The order is different from that observed in Genesis 46:1-34 ; and seems intended to do honour to legitimate, as opposed to secondary, wedlock. The omission of Joseph follows necessarily from the exact form of the opening... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 1:5

All the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls . This is manifestly intended as a repetition of Genesis 46:27 , and throws the reader back upon the details there adduced, which make up the exact number of "seventy souls," by the inclusion of Jacob himself, of Joseph, and of Joseph's two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh. The inaccuracy by which Jacob is counted among his own descendants, is thoroughly Oriental and Hebraistic, however opposed to Western habits of thought. To... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 1:5

Joseph in Egypt. Exodus here points back to Genesis. So the present is always pointing back to the past. In the life of an individual, in the life of a family, in the life of a nation, there is a continuity: no past act but affects the present—no present act but affects the future. Joseph's descent into Egypt is at the root of the whole of Exodus, underlies it, forms its substratum. Without an in-coming, no outgoing; and it was at Joseph's instance that his brethren had come into the... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 1:6

And Joseph died . Or, "So Joseph died"—a reference to Genesis 1:26 — and all his brethren . All the other actual sons of Jacob—some probably before him; some, as Levi ( Genesis 6:16 ), after him. Joseph's "hundred and ten years" did not constitute an extreme longevity. And all that generation. All the wives of Jacob's sons, their sister Dinah, and the full-grown members of their households who accompanied them into Egypt. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 1:6

Joseph in death with all his generation. There are some sayings so trite that we can scarcely bring ourselves to repeat them, so vital that we do not dare to omit them. One of these is that immemorial one: "We must all die." Joseph, great as he had been, useful as his life had been to others, unspeakably precious as it had proved to his near kinsmen, when his time came, went the way of all flesh—died like any common man, and "was put in a coffin" ( Genesis 50:26 ) and buried. So it must... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 1:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 1:1-6

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The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 1:2-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 1:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 1:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 1:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 1:6

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