Exodus 18:8 - The Pulpit Commentary - Bible Study & Commentary

Exodus 18:8 - Exposition

Moses told his father-in-law . Jethro had heard in Midian the general outline of what had happened ( Exodus 18:1 ). Moses now gave him a full and complete narrative (misphar) of the transactions. Compare Genesis 24:66 ; Joshua 2:23 ; where the same verb is used. All the travail . Literally, "the weariness." Compare Malachi 1:13 , where the same word is used. The Lord delivered them . The Septuagint adds "from the hand of Pharaoh and from the hand of the Egyptians.

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Rev. Joseph S. Exell M.A. served as the editor of Clerical World, The Homiletical Quarterly and the Monthly Interpreter. Exell was also the editor for several other large commentary sets like The Men of the Bible, The Preacher's Homiletic Library and The Biblical Illustrator. Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones was the Vicar and Rural Dean of St. Pancras, London and the principal of Gloucester Theological College.... Show more

The Pulpit Commentary is a homiletic commentary on the Bible created during the nineteenth century under the direction of Rev. Joseph S. Exell and Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones. It consists of 23 volumes with 22,000 pages and 95,000 entries, and was written over a 30-year period with 100 contributors.... Show more

Exodus 18:8 - Exposition

Exodus 18:8 - Exposition

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