mixed This mixed multitude, standing for unconverted church-members, was a source of weakness and division, then as now Numbers 11:4-6. (See Scofield " :-") . There had been a manifestation of divine power, and men were drawn to it without change of heart. CF. Luke 14:25-27. read more
Chapter 12The Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you ( Exodus 12:1-2 ).Now in a few weeks the Jews are gonna be celebrating New Year's, Rosh Hashana. How come they're celebrating New Year's now, if this month April was to be the first month of the year? Well, they have a religious calendar. Their religious year begins in April. Then they have just the regular year by which... read more
Exodus 12:2. The first month of the year. This is called Abib, Exodus 13:4; and Nisan, Esther 3:7. It was before the seventh month, hence the earth is supposed to have been created in September; but now in commemoration of their deliverance from Egypt, the ecclesiastical table which regulated the festivals, was ordered to begin with Abib. Many nations have reckoned their existence from some important era in their history: and in this view it was highly proper for the christian church to... read more
Exodus 12:37-39Journeyed from Rameses.The setting forth of the Israelites from Egypt1. The sons of Israel, or Church of God, are in a moving state below.2. From countries and cities with habitations, God leads His people sometimes to pitch in booths.3. The number of the seed of God’s visible Church is great and multiplied according to His word.4. Men, women, and children, God numbers with His Church or Israel (Exodus 12:37).5. Providence so ordering, all sorts of people may join themselves to... read more
Exo 12:38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, [even] very much cattle. Ver. 38. And a mixed multitude. ] Of strangers, that "took hold of the skirts of these Jews, and said, We will go with you," Zec 8:23 but afterwards turned tippet, Num 11:4 lusted greatly and greedily, and made Israel to sin. Coals touched will either burn or sully us. read more
And a mixed multitude: Heb. a great mixture, Numbers 11:4, Zechariah 8:23 Reciprocal: Leviticus 24:10 - General Deuteronomy 29:11 - stranger Nehemiah 13:3 - the mixed Psalms 107:38 - suffereth Jeremiah 25:20 - the mingled read more
And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.And a mixed multitude went up with them — Some perhaps willing to leave their country, because it was laid waste by the plagues. But probably the greatest part was but a rude unthinking mob, that followed they knew not why: It is likely, when they understood that the children of Israel were to continue forty years in the wilderness, they quitted them, and returned to Egypt again.And flocks and herds,... read more
38. A mixed multitude Egyptians, who, in this time of popular excitement and commotion had become disaffected, unsettled, and a medley of adventurous spirits of various peoples, such as always follow an army or emigrating host . Egyptians and “strangers” are afterwards mentioned as living among the Israelites. From Numbers 11:4, we see that the distrust of God’s providence which led to the plague of Kibroth-hattaavah ( Graves of lust) began among this heathen rabble, and from Deuteronomy... read more
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Sermon Bible Commentary - Exodus 12:30-41
Exodus 12:30-41 (with Matthew 2:15 ) I. We cannot treat the Exodus as an isolated fact in history. Egypt is the type of the cunning, careless, wanton world, out of which in all ages God is calling His sons. The Exodus remained a living fact in history. The infant Jesus went down into Egypt, as the infant Israel went down, not to repeat the Exodus, but to illume afresh its fading lines. (1) The children of Israel were an elect race, because they were of the seed of Abraham: that constituted... read more