Exodus 2:23

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 2:23-25

Here is, 1. The continuance of the Israelites? bondage in Egypt, Exod. 2:23. Probably the murdering of their infants did not continue; this part of their affliction attended only the period immediately connected with the birth of Moses, and served to signalize it. The Egyptians now were content with their increase, finding that Egypt was enriched by their labour; so that they might have them for slaves, they cared not how many they were. On this therefore they were intent, to keep them all at... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 2:23

And it came to pass in process of time that the king of Egypt died ,.... According to Eusebius, Orus reigned in Egypt when Moses fled from thence, and that two more reigned after him, Acenchres and Achoris, who both died before the deliverance of the children of Israel; but according to Bishop Usher F2 Annal Vet. Test. p. 19. A. M. 2494. , this was the same king of Egypt under whom Moses was born, and from whose face he fled, who died in the sixty seventh year of his reign, Moses being... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 2:23

In process of time - the king of Egypt died - According to St. Stephen, ( Acts 7:30 , compared with Exodus 7:7 ;), the death of the Egyptian king happened about forty years after the escape of Moses to Midian. The words ההם הרבים בימים ויהי vayehi baiyamim harabbim hahem , which we translate And it came to pass in process of time, signify, And it was in many days from these that the king, etc. It has already been remarked that Archbishop Usher supposes this king to have been Ramesses... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 2:23

Verse 23 23.And it came to pass in process of time. (34) He uses the demonstrative pronoun to mark the forty years in which God kept his servant in suspense, as if he had forsaken him. By adding “many,” he expresses the approaching end of the interval. When, therefore, he had reached his eightieth year, and had married and grown old in the land of Midian, the intolerable cruelty of their tyrannical masters extorted new sighings and cries from the children of Israel; not that they began then... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:15-23

The long exile.Moses took with him into Midian all the best elements of his character; he left some of the faulty ones behind. He may be assumed to have left much of his self-confidence, and to have been cured in part of his natural rashness. His after growth in meekness would almost imply that he had come to see the need of curbing his hot passions, and had, like David, purposed in his heart that he would not transgress ( Psalms 17:3 ; Psalms 32:1 ). But he carried with him all his... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:23

In process of time. Literally, "in those many days ." The reign of Rameses II . was exceptionally long, as previously explained. He had already reigned twenty-seven years when Moses fled from him ( Exodus 2:15 ). He had now reigned sixty-seven, and Moses was eighty! It had seemed a weary while to wait. The children of Israel sighed. If the time had seemed a weary while to Moses, how much more to his nation! He had escaped and was in Midian — they toiled on in Egypt. He kept sheep — they... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:23

Death comes at last, even to the proudest monarch.Rameses II . left behind him the reputation of being the greatest of the Egyptian kings. He was confounded with the mythical Sesostris, and regarded as the conqueror of all Western Asia, of Ethiopia, and of a large tract in Europe. His buildings and other great works did, in fact, probably excel those of any other Pharaoh. His reign was the longest, if we except one, of any upon record. He was victorious, by land or sea, over all who resisted... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:23-25

EXPOSITION. DEATH OF THE PHARAOH FROM WHOM MOSES FLED — CONTINUANCE OF THE OPPRESSION OF ISRAEL - ISRAEL 'S PRAYERS — GOD 'S ACCEPTANCE OF THEM . — After a space of forty years from the time of Moses' flight from Egypt, according to the estimate of St. Stephen ( Acts 7:30 ), which is not, however, to be strictly pressed, the king whose anger he had provoked — Rameses II ., as we believe — died. He had reigned sixty-seven years — about... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 2:23-25

As in streams the water is attracted to and swirls round various centres, so here the interest of the narrative circles about three facts. We have — I . THE KING 'S DEATH . Who the king was may be uncertain. [Some say Aahmes I . . — see Canon Cook, in 'Speaker's Commentary;' others, Rameses II . — see R . S . Poole, In Contemporary Review,' March, 1879.] What he had done is sufficiently evident. Confronted with an alien people, of whose history he knew little and with whom... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 2:23

In process of time - Nearly forty years Acts 7:30. This verse marks the beginning of another section. We now enter at once upon the history of the Exodus.Their cry came up unto God - This statement, taken in connection with the two following verses, proves that the Israelites retained their faith in the God of their Fathers. The divine name, “God,” אלהים 'ĕlohı̂ym, is chosen because it was that which the Israelites must have used in their cry for help, that under which the covenant had been... read more

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