John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 1:18
And the king called for the midwives ,.... Perceiving, by the increase of the Israelites, that they did not obey his commands: and said unto them, why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive ? not only did not kill them, but did everything for them that was necessary for their future preservation and health; see Ezekiel 16:4 . read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 1:15-22
The Egyptians? indignation at Israel's increase, notwithstanding the many hardships they put upon them, drove them at length to the most barbarous and inhuman methods of suppressing them, by the murder of their children. It was strange that they did not rather pick quarrels with the grown men, against whom they might perhaps find some occasion: to be thus bloody towards the infants, whom all must own to be innocents, was a sin which they had to cloak for. Note, 1. There is more cruelty in the... read more