Exodus 6:1-30

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 6:1-9

Here, I. God silences Moses's complaints with the assurance of success in this negotiation, repeating the promise made him in Exod. 3:20; After that, he will let you go. When Moses was at his wit's end, wishing he had staid in Midian, rather than have come to Egypt to make bad worse?when he was quite at a loss what to do?Then the Lord said unto Moses, for the quieting of his mind, ?Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh (Exod. 6:1); now that the affair has come to a crisis, things are as... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 6:10-13

Here, I. God sends Moses the second time to Pharaoh (Exod. 6:11) upon the same errand as before, to command him, at his peril, that he let the children of Israel go. Note, God repeats his precepts before he begins his punishments. Those that have often been called in vain to leave their sins must yet be called again and again, whether they will hear or whether they will forbear, Ezek. 3:1. God is said to hew sinners by his prophets (Hos. 6:5), which denotes the repetition of the strokes. How... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 6:14-30

I. We have here a genealogy, not an endless one, such as the apostle condemns (1 Tim. 1:4), for it ends in those two great patriots Moses and Aaron, and comes in here to show that they were Israelites, bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh whom they were sent to deliver, raised up unto them of their brethren, as Christ also should be, who was to be the prophet and priest, the Redeemer and lawgiver, of the people of Israel, and whose genealogy also, like this, was to be carefully... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 6:1

Then the Lord said unto Moses ,.... In answer to the questions put to him, and the expostulations made with him: now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh : in inflicting punishments on him: for with a strong hand shall he let them go; being forced to it by the mighty hand of God upon him; and it is by some rendered, "because of a strong hand" F19 ביד חזקה "propter manum validam"; so some in Drusius. ; so Jarchi; for this is not to be understood of the hand of Pharaoh, but... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 6:2

And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord. Or Jehovah, the self-existent Being, the Being of beings, the everlasting I am, the unchangeable Jehovah, true, firm, and constant to his promises, ever to be believed, and always to be depended on. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 6:3

And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty ,.... Able to fulfil all his purposes, promises, and covenant, with whom nothing is impossible; or Elshaddai, God all-sufficient, who has a sufficiency of happiness in himself, and everything to supply the wants of his creatures in things temporal and spiritual, see Genesis 17:1 , but by my name Jehovah was I not known to them ; which he had in the preceding verse called himself by. This is not to be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 6:4

And I have also established my covenant with them ,.... With Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and with their posterity, so that it is sure and firm, and shall never be made null and void: to give them the land of Canaan ; or to their children, which were as themselves: the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers ; not being in actual possession of any part of it, but lived as pilgrims and strangers in it, as their posterity now did in another land not theirs; see Hebrews... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 6:5

And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel ,.... For the Lord is not only the eternal and immutable Being in his purposes and promises, and a covenant keeping God; but he is compassionate and merciful, and sympathizes with his people in all their afflictions; he takes notice of their sighs and groans, as he now did those of his people in Egypt: whom the Egyptians keep in bondage ; and which was the reason of their groaning; their bondage being so hard and rigorous, in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 6:6

Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord ,.... Eternal in his being, immutable in his counsels, faithful to his covenant, and able to fulfil it: and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians ; which lay heavy on them, and made them sigh and groan: and I will rid you out of their bondage ; in which they were kept, and by which their lives were made bitter: and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm ; with an arm stretched out from heaven to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 6:7

And I will take you to me for a people ,.... Out of the hands of the Egyptians, and out of their country, to be in a political sense his kingdom and subjects; and in a religious sense a holy people to himself, to fear, serve, worship, and glorify him, by walking according to laws and rules given them by him; and this he did by setting up and establishing a civil and ecclesiastical polity among them: and I will be to you a God ; their King and their God to rule over them, protect and... read more

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