Exodus 12:22 KJV

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 12:22

No safety for man beyond the limits protected by the Lamb's atoning blood. No Israelite was to pass beyond the door of his house until the morning, lest he should be destroyed by the destroyer. Within the precincts, protected by the blood of the lamb, he was safe. Let Christians beware of stepping beyond the limits whereto the atoning blood extends. Those step beyond the limits— I. WHO TEMPT GOD BY DALLYING WITH SIN . Atonement has been made for us, we feel We have had... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:22

A bunch of hyssop - The species here designated does not appear to be the plant now bearing the name. It would seem to have been an aromatic plant, common in Palestine and near Mount Sinai, with a long straight stalk and leaves well adapted for the purpose of sprinkling.Bason - The rendering rests on good authority and gives a good sense: but the word means “threshold” in some other passages and in Egyptian, and is taken here in that sense by some versions. If that rendering be correct it would... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 12:22

Exodus 12:22. Out of the door of his house Of that house wherein he ate the passover: until the morning That is, till toward the morning, when they would be called for to march out of Egypt; for they went forth very early in the morning. This command was peculiar to the first passover. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 12:1-36

The Passover (12:1-36)Until now the Israelites had escaped the judgment of the plagues without having to do anything, but now their safety depended on their carrying out God’s commands. Redemption involves faith and obedience.Each family would be delivered from judgment only by killing a sacrificial animal as substitute for it, and sprinkling the animal’s blood on the door of the house where the family lived. The sprinkled blood indicated to those outside that a substitutionary sacrifice had... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 12:21-28

"Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you lambs according to your families, and kill the passover. And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning. For Jehovah will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood that is on the lintel and the two... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:22

Exodus 12:22. Ye shall take a bunch of hyssop— This herb was to be used in the cleansing of the leprous person and the leprous house, as well as on other occasions. See Leviticus 14:6; Leviticus 7:38. Numbers 6:18. In allusion to this, David, praying for purification from the leprosy of sin, says, purge me with hyssop, Psalms 51:7. Le Clerc is of opinion, that it is used as emblematical of purification; for it is a cathartic herb: and Parkhurst observes, that it has its name in the Hebrew, from... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:22

22. hyssop—a small red moss [HASSELQUIST]; the caper-plant [ROYLE]. It was used in the sprinkling, being well adapted for such purposes, as it grows in bushes—putting out plenty of suckers from a single root. And it is remarkable that it was ordained in the arrangements of an all-wise Providence that the Roman soldiers should undesignedly, on their part, make use of this symbolical plant to Christ when, as our Passover, He was sacrificed for us [ :-]. none . . . shall go out at the door of his... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 12:1-28

1. The consecration of Israel as the covenant nation 12:1-28"The account of the final proof of Yahweh’s Presence in Egypt has been expanded by a series of instructions related to cultic [ritual worship] requirements designed to commemorate that proof and the freedom it purchased." [Note: Durham, p. 152.] read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 12:21-28

The communication and execution of the directions concerning the Passover 12:21-28Hyssop grew commonly on rocks and walls in the Near East and Egypt (Exodus 12:22). If it was the same plant that we identify as hyssop today, masses of tiny white flowers and a fragrant aroma characterized it. The Jews used it for applying blood to the door in the Passover ritual because of its availability and suitability as a liquid applicator. They also used it in the purification rite for lepers (Leviticus... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 12:1-51

The Institution of the Passover. The Tenth Plague, and the Departure of Israel1. In the land of Egypt] These words suggest that what follows was written independently of the foregoing narrative, and an examination of this chapter shows that it contains two separate accounts of the institution of the Passover, one extending from Exodus 12:1-20, the other from Exodus 12:21-28. The latter is the proper continuation of Exodus 11.2. The beginning of months] The exodus is regarded as an... read more