Exodus 3:7-4:17

Sermon Bible Commentary - Exodus 3:7

Exodus 3:7 Quite apart from its religious significance, there is no other historical phenomenon that is to be compared for a moment in interest with this ever-growing wonder of the Jewish race. The light falls clearly and steadily on its history from first to last. The whole connected story lies before us like a mighty river, which from some high mountain summit you can trace from its fountain to the ocean. I. The history of this people is thus the history of mankind in its central seats of... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Exodus 3:1-22

Chapter 3Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to mount Horeb ( Exodus 3:1 ).Now no doubt Moses' experiences there in the wilderness were going to be necessary experiences. Number one, while he was there he was learning the lay of the land. As he was out there as a shepherd following the flocks through the Sinai desert and around Mount Horeb, he became very well... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 3:1-22

Exodus 3:1. Horeb and Sinai are the same mountain, almost surrounded by two branches of the Red sea. But it has two summits, Sinai on the east, and Horeb on the west. Justinian built a monastery here, and made it the seat of a bishop. They show strangers the identical spot where Moses, by the Lord’s command, caused the waters to flow. The Mussulmans have this place in very great veneration. Exodus 3:2. Angel of the Lord. Malack, the messenger, the angel of the covenant. Malachi 3:1.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Exodus 3:7

Exodus 3:7I have surely seen the affliction of My people.God’s people-the Jews: their history, and their afflictionQuite apart from its religious significance, there is no other historical phenomenon that is to be compared for a moment in interest with this ever-growing wonder of the Jewish race. The light falls clearly and steadily on its history from first to last. The whole connected story lies before us like a mighty river, which from some high mountain summit you can trace from its... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Exodus 3:7

Exo 3:7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which [are] in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; Ver. 7. For I know their sorrows. ] That is a sweet support to a sinking soul, that God knows all, and bears a part. "Your heavenly Father knows," &c. Mat 6:32 That is enough. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Exodus 3:7

I have: Exodus 2:23-Lamentations :, Exodus 22:23, Genesis 29:32, 1 Samuel 9:16, Psalms 22:24, Psalms 34:4, Psalms 34:6, Psalms 106:44, Psalms 145:19, Isaiah 63:9, Hebrews 4:15 by reason: Exodus 1:11 I know: Genesis 18:21, Psalms 142:3 Reciprocal: Genesis 4:10 - crieth Genesis 16:11 - hath Genesis 21:17 - heard Genesis 29:31 - saw Genesis 30:17 - General Genesis 31:12 - I have seen Genesis 31:42 - hath seen Exodus 2:11 - burdens Exodus 2:25 - had respect Exodus 3:9 - the cry Exodus 4:31 -... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 3:7-10

MOSES IS CALLED, Exodus 3:7-10; AND GOD REVEALS THE MEMORIAL NAME, Exodus 3:11-22. 7-10. God dispels the mystery, that had been so long thickening upon his providence, unfolds his plan, and gives Moses his commission . read more